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

“Without him, [Nate] she was completely alone in the world. There was no one at all for her. No one in the world who cared whether she lived or died. Sometimes the horror of that thought threatened to overwhelm her and plunge her down into bottomless darkness...”

“He was the one she was doing all this for, but sometimes she missed him so much it felt like she swallowed broken glass.”

“You cannot save every fallen bird," said Woolsey."One will do," said Magnus.”

“Is standing by the window muttering about blood something he does all the time?" asked Simon."No," Jace said. "Sometimes he sits on the couch and does it.”

“Sometimes," said Will, "they're even supposed to blow up.”

“I have heard sometimes that men who lose an arm of a leg still feel that pain in those limbs, though they are gone,' said Will. 'It is like that sometimes. I can feel Jem with me, though he is gone, and it is like I am missing a part of myself.”