"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."
-Marcel Proust
"Therefore, you can never lose hope -- hatikva -- because if you keep hope alive, it will keep you alive."
-from City of Lost Souls (Mortal Instruments #5) by Cassandra Clare
"Adversity tests one's strength of character. In difficult times, in dark times, some people shine."
-from City of Lost Souls (Mortal Instruments #5) by Cassandra Clare
"Bar none, the Old English D is just as classic as it gets."
-Brennan Boesch
"Don't let them reduce you to that ... Don't let them define how you see yourself, or your place here. And if you ever need someone to talk to, I'm not hard to find."
-from Fated (Soul Seekers #1) by Alyson Noel
"There are moments in life when everything pauses. The earth hesitates, the atmosphere stills, and time shrinks and folds onto itself."
-from Fated (Soul Seekers #1) by Alyson Noel
"From the moment I saw you, I knew you were different. ... Guess my instincts are good. Some things you just know without question."
-from Fated (Soul Seekers #1) by Alyson Noel
"You gotta adjust to the dark so the light can find you."
-from Fated (Soul Seekers #1) by Alyson Noel
"A seeker must learn to see in the dark -- relying on what she knows in her heart."
-from Fated (Soul Seekers #1) by Alyson Noel
"The two of us drawn to each other, bound by forces unseen. But before he can get to the words, I break free of the spell and make a mad limping dash."
-from Fated (Soul Seekers #1) by Alyson Noel
"[They] allowed me to be ripped apart so I could be rebuilt. And because of it, I am now bigger, better, and stronger than I ever thought possible."
-from Fated (Soul Seekers #1) by Alyson Noel
If by the time the bar closes,
You feel like falling down
I'll carry you home
Tonight
We are young,
So let's set the world on fire,
We can burn brighter
Than the sun
-"We Are Young" by Fun
I threw a wish in the well
Don't ask me I'll never tell
I look to you as it fell and now you're in my way
I trade my soul for a wish,
Pennies and dimes for a kiss,
I wasn't looking for this
But now you're in my way
Your stare was holding
Ripped jeans, skin was showing,
Hot night, wind was blowing
Where you think you're going baby?
Hey, I just met you,
And this is crazy
But here's my number
So call me, maybe
It's hard to look right at you, baby
But here's my number,
So call me, maybe ...
You took your time with call,
I took my time with the fall,
You gave me nothing at all,
But still you're still in my way
I beg and borrow and steal,
At first sight and it's real
I didn't know I would feel it
But it's in my way
-from "Call Me Maybe" by Carly Rae Jepsen
"No man chooses evil because it is evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks."
-Mary Wollstonecraft
"You would do anything save him, whatever it cost you, whatever you might owe to Hell or Heaven, would you not?"
-from City of Lost Souls (Mortal Instruments #5) by Cassandra Clare
"There are some people -- people the universe seems to have singled out for special destinies. Special favors and special torments. God knows we're all drawn toward what's beautiful and broken; I have been, but some people cannot be fixed. Or if they can be, it's only by love and sacrifice so great it destroys the giver."
-from City of Lost Souls (Mortal Instruments #5) by Cassandra Clare
"Nerd love. It is a beautiful thing, while also being an object mockery and hilarity for those of us who are more sophisticated."
-from City of Lost Souls (Mortal Instruments #5) by Cassandra Clare
"In a true partnership, the kind that lasts through the ages, there is an unspoken communion."
-from City of Lost Souls (Mortal Instruments #5) by Cassandra Clare
"I knew you were crazy. ... But I didn't realize you absolutely spectacularly out of your goddamned mind."
-from City of Lost Souls (Mortal Instruments #5) by Cassandra Clare
"Comforting someone when they were stricken with loss was something else. It meant commitment. It meant caring. It meant you wanted to ease their pain, and at the same time you were thanking God that whatever the bad thing was that had happened, it hadn't happened to them."
-from City of Lost Souls (Mortal Instruments #5) by Cassandra Clare
"I was in the dark ... There was nothing there but shadows, and I was a shadow. And then I heard your voice."
-from City of Lost Souls (Mortal Instruments #5) by Cassandra Clare
"If you don't say something to him, he's going to assume it's because you're not interested, and he'll give up. He needs you, Iz, and you need him. He just also needs you to be the one to say it."
-from City of Lost Souls (Mortal Instruments #5) by Cassandra Clare
"There are ways in which we're so alike. We're reckless. We don't think before we act. We'll do anything for the people we love. And I never thought how scary that was for the people who loved me and i saw you and it terrified me. How could I protect you if you wouldn't let me?"
-from City of Lost Souls (Mortal Instruments #5) by Cassandra Clare
You know, the bed feels warmer
Sleeping here alone
You know, I dream in color
And do the things I want
You think you got the best of me,
Think you had the last laugh,
Bet you think that everything good is gone,
Think you left me broken down,
Think that I'd come running back,
Baby, you don't know me,
'Cause your dead wrong
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, stand a little taller
Doesn't mean I'm lonely 'cause I'm alone
What doesn't kill you makes a fighter,
Footsteps even lighter
Doesn't mean I'm over 'cause you're gone
You heard that I was starting over with someone new,
They told you I was moving on, over you
You didn't think that I'd come back,
I'd come back swinging,
You tried to break me but you see,
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger ...
Thanks to you, I got a new thing started
Thanks to you, I'm not the brokenhearted
Thanks to you, I'm finally thinking 'bout me
You know, in the end the day I left was just the beginning
-from "Stronger" by Kelly Clarkson
For you, there'll be no more crying,
For you, the sun will be shining,
And I feel that when I'm with you,
It's all right, I know it's right
To you, I'll give the world
To you, I'll never be cold
'Cause I feel that when I'm with you,
It's all right, I know it's right
And the songbirds are singing like they know the score
-from "Songbird" by Fleetwood Mac
