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

“Because if no one really cares for you at all, do you even exist?”

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

“We had and incident. I took care of it.""Really." Jace's voice dripped sarcasm. "Do you even know how to use that knife, Clarissa? Without poking a hole in yourself or any innocent bystanders?”

“Do you think it's possible to do something so bad, even if you didn't mean to do it, that you can never come back from it? That no one can forgive you?"Luke looked at him for a long, silent moment. Then he said, "Think of someone you love, Simon. Really love. Is there anything they could ever do that would mean you would stop loving them?”

“You never really hate anyone as much as someone you cared about once.”

“Unfortunately, you never really hate anyone as much as someone you cared about once.”