“You let me set the water in the shower, and followed me into the booth to stand there with me under the warm spray. You kept your head down, not looking me in the eyesthough if you were shy, I coul...”

“what it is is the memory of a dance a song you heard long ago to hear it is to be young again and for once for once you are happy”

“Theyd come for you, and this time theyd come with we”

“The second day, I watched you suffer through one of your nightmares, but this one was worse than Id seen before. You called out another mans name.”

“The best sci-fi stories use the fantastical to remind us of the reality of who we are today, the hope of who we may become tomorrow, and the shame of who we were yesterday.”

“But it turns out Joy is a house built from the same bricks as Sorrow. Pleasure is a poem, and it uses the same words as Pain.”

“The way he looked at you. I got it then. He loved you, and it was killing him. He won't get over you, Clary, he can't.”

“First of all, love is a joint experience between two persons but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved. There are the love...”

“I have to admit, an unrequited love is so much better than a real one. I mean, it's perfect... As long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless po...”