“The future vibrated with uncertainty. I had failed. I had ignorance. I had hope.”
“Hope was based on the unknown, and I liked knowing things. Like that I was going to fail. Failure had better odds. ”
“I am dramatic," said Will. "If i had not been a Shadowhunter, i would have had a future on the stage.”
“Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...”
“I was alive. But I was alive without a memory, without a name; I was cut off from hope as well as from remorse or regret. I had no past and would probably have no future; I was buried alive in a void which was the wound that had been dealt me. I was like the wound itself.”
“I had failed to make a gift of myself to God.”