“This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.”

“Through the darkest hours of the nightand through the dreamers realm I seek,Far beyond the starry skyand beyond galaxies I am free.Through the grimmest memoriesand past a seasons air I cannot breathe,Far beyond this mortal worldin an afterlife we shall meet.”

“You mortals are like fish swimming in a globe of glass. That globe is your world. You do not see beyond it.”

“Allow this poem to carry you beyond yourself, transcending your mortal flesh as you wed yourself with the potentially infinite.”

“Mortal beauty often makes me ache, and mortal grandeur can fill me with that longing...but Paris, Paris drew me close to her heart, so I forgot myself entirely. Forgot the damned and questing preternatural thing that doted on mortal skin and mortal clothing. Paris overwhelmed, and lightened and rewarded more richly than any promise. ”

“It's the mortal cup Jace, not the mortal toilet bowl.”