I thought... that we could at least talk about books. - Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

"She had never imagined she had the power to make someone else so happy. And not a magical power, either--a purely human one."

"You had to know a person well to make them laugh like that."

"Ah,” said a voice from the doorway, “having your annual ‘everyone thinks Will is a lunatic’ meeting, are you? “It’s biannual,” said Jem. “And no, this is not that meeting."

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

"I've never minded it,"he went on. "Being lost, that is. I had always thought one could not truly be lost if one knew one's own heart. But I fear I may be lost without knowing yours."