“It's love, not the Battle of Thermopylae. You don't have to treat everything like it's a last stand.”
“It's curling ribbon, but you don't have to curl it. You don't have to do everything the ribbon tells you to do. Don't live your life like that.”
“We have the greatest power through love that can be known. It overcomes everything with its fierce and steady truth, if you can continue to stand in it.”
“You don't get it, Clary. You don't understand what it's like to live always at war, to grow up with battle and sacrifice. I guess it's not your fault. It's just how you were brought up-”
“It's like he knows everything. And I don't have to say a word.”
“How do you know it's love? I don't know, but it lasts forever.”