“The past is set down in a thousand thousand indelible scrolls. But the future is a blank parchment forever in wait of a present.”

“Alone with my wine and my misery, I was convinced that life was composed of a string of if onlys leading from one self-inflicted bungle to the next until at some point, ones final iteration of the ...”

“I dont care how smart you are. Youll never understand how little you really know until youve had a woman.”

“It is laughable how often good manners interfere with my survival.”

“It is we who move through time, not the reverse. When we walk beyond any one of lifes instants, it becomes nothing more than a receding milestone. We can look back, but we cannot retrace our steps....”

“I don’t care how smart you are. You’ll never understand how little you really know until you’ve had a woman.”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”

“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...”