"Hearts are breakable. Even when you heal, you're never what you were before."

-Isabelle Lockwood

"If I win, I'm a prodigy. If I lose then I'm mad. That's the way history is written."

-Artemis Fowl II

"The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and to be loved is to be the one destroyed."

-Jace Lightwood

"Friendship isn't a Science, mud boy. Just do what you think is right."

-Holly Short

"When you love someone, it stays with you. Always reminding you of how easy it is to get hurt."

-Elena Gilbert

"I've been in love. It's pointless and overrated."

-Damon Salvatore

"We're staying together. You're not getting away from me. Never again."

-Percy Jackson

"To remind you that deep beneath the layers of deviousness, you have a spark of decency. Perhaps you could blow on that spark occasionally."

-Holly Short

"I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different."

-Tobias

"Master Will has always been the brighter burning star, the one to catch attention, but Jem is a steady flame, unwavering and honest. He could make you happy."

-Sophie Collins

"We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another."

-Will, quoting from the Dauntless manifesto

"The worst day of loving someone is the day that you lose them."

-Elena Gilbert

"If we cease to believe in love why would we want to exist?"

-Katherine Pierce

"Have you fallen in love with the wrong person yet?"

"Unfortunately, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remains myself."

"At least you don't have to worry about rejection, Jace Wayland."

"Not necessarily. I turn myself down occasionally, just to keep it interesting."

-Jace Lightwood

"True love is not real unless it is returned."

-Katherine Pierce

"There is no pretending. I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then."

-Jace Lightwood

"I don't want to be a man. I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead."

-Jace Lightwood

"Our actions are what set things in motion, and we have to live with that."

-Elena Gilbert

"And I'm supposed to sit by while you date boys and fall in love with someone else, get married...? And meanwhile, I'll die a bit more everyday, watching."

-Jace Lightwood

"I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass."

-Simon Lewis

"Yes, I worry about you. Why do you even have to hear me say it?"

-Elena Gilbert

"One must always be careful of books and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us."

-Tessa Gray

"Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt."

-Clary Fray

"Is this the part where you say if I hurt her, you'll kill me?"

"No. If you hurt Clary she's quite capable of killing you herself. Possibly with a variety of weapons."

-Simon Lewis

“Damon just snuck up on me. And no matter what I do, I just can’t shake him."

“Once you fall in love with someone, I don’t know.. I don’t know if you can ever shake them.”

-Elena Gilbert and Matt Donovan

"Do you ever feel like there's not a person in the world who loves you?"

-Caroline Forbes

"What kind of walk takes six hours?"

"A long one?"

-Alec Lightwood

"The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me."

-Jace Lightwood

"He was slumped over, blood trickling from the side of his mouth. I shook his furry hip, thinking, No! Even if you are half barnyard animal, you're my best friend and I don't want you to die!"

-Percy Jackson

"I am never, never going to make things easy for you, Seaweed Brain. Get used to it."

-Annabeth Chase

"I told you I could be a bad ass."

"Bad asses don't say that."

-Jeremy Gilbert and Damon Salvotore

"If you were me, then I'd be you. And if I were you, I'd hide somewhere far away."

-Artemis Fowl II

"At the risk of sounding cliched, I've been expecting you."

-Artemis Fowl II

"It's this blasted puberty, Butler. Every time I see a pretty girl, I waste valuable mind space thinking about her."

-Artemis Fowl II

"I never tell anyone exactly how smart I am. They would be too scared."

-Artemis Fowl II

"I'd love to tell you that I had some deep revelation on my way down, that I came to terms with my own mortality, laughed in the face of death etc etc. The truth? My only thought was: Aaaaggghhhh!"

-Percy Jackson