“Every memory was valuable; even the bad ones.”

“You couldnt erase everything that caused you pain with recollection.Every memory was valuable; even the bad ones”

“Jace, Clary thought, was the sort of person who liked it when things were happening, even things that were bad”

“Memories did one no good, not when one knew the truth in the present. Will was beautiful, but he was not hers; he was anybody's. Something in him was broken, and trough that break spilled a blind cruelty, a need to hurt and to push away.”

“For you to find a needle in-God, not even in a haystack. A needle in a tower full of other needles.''Plunge your hand into a tower of needles,' said Magnus, 'and you are likely to cut yourself badly.”

“Life was an uncertain thing, and there were some moments one wished to remember, to imprint upon one's mind that the memory might be taken out later, like a flower pressed between the pages of a book, and admired and recollected anew. - Sophie and Gideon Lightwood”

“You cannot save every fallen bird," said Woolsey."One will do," said Magnus.”