“... love given without free will or truthfulness wasn't love at all.”

“Whoever loves you now—and you must also love yourself—will love the truth of you.”

“One can love two children. But your heart can be given romantic love to only a single other, said Woolsey.”

“This is your true self, Tessa. This power is who you are. Whoever loves you now - and you must also love yourself - will love the truth of you.”

“I did not think you would be angry, Jem burst out, and it was like ice cracking across a frozen waterfall, freeing a torrent. We were engaged, Tessa. A proposal-an offer of marriage-is a promise. A promise to love and care for someone always. I did not mean to break mine to you. But it was that or die. I wanted to wait, to be married to you and live wit you for years, but that wasn't possible. I was dying too fast. I would have given it up-all of it up-to be married to you for a day. A day that would never have come. You are a reminder-a reminder of everything I am losing. The life I will not have.”

“The truth is that I love Simon like I should love you, and I wish that he was my brother and you weren't." - Clary”

“If you really love something, you never try to keep it the way it is forever. You have to let it be free to change.”