“Mundane humans create distinctions between themselves, distinctions that seem ridiculous to any Shadowhunter. Their distinctions are based on race, religion, national identity, any of a dozen minor and irrelevant markers. ~ Valentine”

“It is fear that turns minor difference into major, that makes the gulf between ethnicities into a distinction between species, between human and non-human.”

“Nor did I make any distinctions between great literature and any other kind. I just liked reading.”

“Religion and spirituality can easily be intertwined; however, there is a very distinct separation between the two.”

“In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.”

“These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmengive themselves away! The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall. But the God created from human vanity seesno difference between an eagle and a sparrow.”