“It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.”

“People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but it's the way you live your life that matters.”

“I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass.”

“We live and breathe words. It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how you were lonely sometimes and afraid, but always brave; the way you saw the world, its colors and textures and sounds, I felt, I felt the way you thought, hoped, felt, dreamt. I felt I was dreaming and thinking and feeling with you. I dreamed what you dreamed, wanted what you wanted, and then I realized that truly I just wanted you.”

“And now I'm looking at you, and you're asking me if I still want you, as if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has. I never dared give much of myself to anyone before (bits of myself to the Lightwoods, to Isabelle and Alec, but it took years), but Clary, since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me.”

“There is no pretending. I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.”

“Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”

“One must always be careful of books and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”

“Everything changes in my life, and the world stays the same.”