“One must look at the next step on the path ahead, rather than the mountain in the distance, or one would never reach one's goal.”

“Jem always said that Will rushed toward the end of a mission rather than proceeding in a measured manner, and that one must look at the next step on the path ahead, rather than the destination in the distance, or one would never reach one’s goal. Will closed his eyes for a moment. He knew that Jem was right, but it was hard to remember, when the goal that he sought was the girl that he loved.”

“The path to hell is an easy one.”

“Come with me," she said. "Stay with me. Be with me. See everything with me. I have traveled the world and seen so much, but there is so much more, and no one I would rather see it with than you. I would go everywhere and anywhere with you, Jem Carstairs.”

“It is easier to confront a threat as a mass, a group, not individuals who must be evaluated one by one...”

“There was no Jace Wayland more real than the one he saw in her eyes when she looked at him.”

“Sometimes one must choose whether to be kind or honorable," he said. "Sometimes one cannot be both.”