“If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?”

“Mom. I have something to tell you. I'm undead. Now, I know you may have some preconceived notions about the undead. I know you may not be comfortable with the idea of me being undead. But I'm here to tell you that undead are just like you and me... well, okay. Possibly more like me than you.”

“Don't. I'm not really in the mood right now.”

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

“Can I help you with something?”

“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.”

“You know, there was a time I thought we could be friends, Will.”

“"Don't order any of the faerie food," said Jace, looking at her over the top of his menu. "It tends to make humans a little crazy. One minute you're munching a faerie plum, the next minute you're running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not," he added hastily, "that this has ever happened to me."”

“It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.”

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

“Well, I'm not kissing the mundane. I'd rather stay down here and rot.”

“Not everything is about you.”

“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.”

“You could have had anything else in the world, and you asked for me.”

“And I'm supposed to sit by while you date boys and fall in love with someone else, get married? And meanwhile, I'll die a little bit more every day, watching.”

“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.”

“"I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead." "Well," said Luke, "you're doing a fantastic job."”

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

“Don't touch any of my weapons without my permission.”

“We came to see Jace. Is he alright?”

“Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.”

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