“Can you believe it? They made me an ensign.""I didn't realize that things were going so bad.""Scary, isn't it?”

“Scary, isn't it? But what wonderful thing didn't start out scary?”

“Opening a present from a live person was scary enough. There was always the chance that the gift might be so wrong, so completely not the kind of thing you liked, that you'd realize they didn't really know you at all.”

“I always thought love made you stupid. Made you weak. A bad Shadowhunter. 'To love is to destroy.'I believed that[...]I used to think being a good warrior meant not caring,[...] And then I met you. You were a mundane. Weak. Not a fighter. Never trained[...] Love didn't make you weak, it made you stronger than anyone I'd ever met. And I realized I was the one who was weak.”

“When bad things happen, I know you want to believe they are a joke, But sometimes life is scary and dark. That is why we must find the light.”

“That boy made me realize, for a while at least, that my parents were wrong, and I didn't have to be like them.”