It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not comple... - Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

"If no one cares for you at all, do you even really exist?"

"They’re not hideous,” said Tessa. Will blinked at her. “What?” “Gideon and Gabriel,” said Tessa. “They’re really quite good-looking, not hideous at all.” “I spoke,” said Will, in sepulchral tones, “of the pitch-black inner depths of their souls.” Tessa snorted. “And what color do you suppose the inner depths of your soul are, Will Herondale?” “Mauve,” said Will."

"She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all?"

"I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you."

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