“The more you try to crush your true nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop.”

“Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop”

“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.”

“Sophie said to me once that she was glad she had been scarred. She said that whoever loved her now would love her true self, and not her pretty face. 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.”

“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.”

“To draw something is to try to capture it FOREVER, 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”

“I love you Clary. More then I ever-- God. More than i probably should. You know that, don't you?”