“frustrated because it's going too fast to see but if you could see it, it wouldn't make any sense because you'd be looking too close”

“He's a gentle soul,' he told her. 'I can't see him put down, he wouldn't hurt a fly.' Indeed Boris wouldn't hurt a fly because in general flies were too fast for him.”

“You could try making sense out of the universe, but you were too small and the parts you needed to see were too large or even smaller.”

“And then we met you, and it was like he woke up. You couldn't see it, because you'd never known him any different. But I saw it. Hodge saw it. Alec saw it -why do you think he hated you so much? It was like that form the second we met you. You thought it was amazing that you could see us, and it was, but what was amazing to me was that Jace could see you too.”

“Maybe we judge people too much by their looks because it's easier than seeing what's really important.”

“You see the most when you're not looking for anything in particular...when you look too hard for something, you get nearsighted because you only see what you want to see.”