“Is a person worth more because they have someone to grieve for them?”

“If something happened to me, whose face will be on the front page of the paper begging for me? Is a person worth more because they have someone to grieve for them?”

“...do you actually think that how long a person grieves is a measure of how much they loved someone?”

“Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved. ”

“Loving someone means that you will inevitable grieve for them; love is an engraved invitation for grief.”

“As Luke knelt down beside his corpse, Clary couldn’t help but remember what he had said about having loved Valentine once, about having been his closest friend. Luke, she thought with a pang. Surely he couldn’t be sad — or even grieved?But then again, perhaps everyone should have someone to grieve for them, and there was no one else to grieve for Valentine.”