"Helen's books were her friends, "the kind you invite for dinner in the middle of winter,"she'd told him, "and spend all night talking and never go to bed."
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"There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out."
"Rules and school are tools for fools! I don't give two mules for rules."
"They’re not hideous,” said Tessa. Will blinked at her. “What?” “Gideon and Gabriel,” said Tessa. “They’re really quite good-looking, not hideous at all.” “I spoke,” said Will, in sepulchral tones, “of the pitch-black inner depths of their souls.” Tessa snorted. “And what color do you suppose the inner depths of your soul are, Will Herondale?” “Mauve,” said Will."
"Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack."
"I have my own high standards for what I want in a partner and how I want to be treated. I bring a lot to the table. I'm not talking about material things but what I have to offer as a person - love and loyalty and all the things that make a good relationship."
"The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive"
"Change the world, I know I won’t,Enthralling as always I hope it remains,A kaleidoscope of joy, sorrow and pain.But my only wish as I take this jaunt,Is for my words on you to impress upon,A smile, a tear or even an angry frown."
"In art, the obvious is a sin."
"My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for."
"I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor."
"I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once."
"The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity."
"But our wishes are like tinder: the flint and steel of circumstances are continually striking out sparks, which vanish immediately, unless they chance to fall upon the tinder of our wishes; then, they instantly ignite, and the flame of hope is kindled in a moment."
"I hate you' she said to me one afternoon. 'I really, really hate you.' Call me sensitive, but I couldn't help but take it personally."
"Answered prayer is the interchange of love between the Father and His child."
"Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent."
"Tidak semua yang kita inginkan harus terjadi seketika. Kita tidak hidup di dunia dongeng."
"We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence."
"the difference between the old and the new education being) in a word, the old was a kind of propagation - men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda."
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