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"You always get weirdos like Edward who seem to attract women for some reason. If Edward wasn’t a fictional character and you met him in reality he is like one of those guys who would probably be an axe murderer or something."
— Stephenie Meyer (The Twilight Saga)

tags: twilight
5,713 people liked it

"Daimonds are a girls best friend- they're sharper than knives"
— Lynne Ewing

26 people liked it

"You can never really know someone completely. That’s why it’s the most terrifying thing in the world, really—taking someone on faith, hoping they’ll take you on faith too. It’s such a precarious balance, It’s a wonder we do it at all. And yet..

"
— Libba Bray

122 people liked it

"There are no safe choices. Only other choices. There are no safe choices

"
— Libba Bray (A Great and Terrible Beauty)

tags: choice
71 people liked it

"Corrupt my brother, will you? I'll see you in hell first, sir."
— Libba Bray (The Sweet Far Thing)

25 people liked it

""The key holds the truth"
"
— Libba Bray (The Sweet Far Thing)

16 people liked it

""How can my ankles and arms be obscene?" "
— Libba Bray (A Great and Terrible Beauty)

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"I am no longer content to be the scared, obedient schoolgirl. Who are you, a stranger, to tell me what I can and cannot do?"
— Libba Bray

33 people liked it

"Eve didn't choose to eat the apple. She was tempted by the serpent."
"Yes," I argue, thoughts coming out half-formed. "But...she didn't have to take a bite. She chose to."
— Libba Bray

49 people liked it

"To love would be an awfully big adventure."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

tags: adventure, love
1,770 people liked it

"To die will be an awfully big adventure."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

112 people liked it

"Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning. "
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

88 people liked it

"'So, Pan,' said Hook at last, 'this is all your doing.'
'Ay, James Hook,' came the stern answer, 'it is all my doing.'
'Proud and insolent youth,' said Hook, 'prepare to meet thy doom.'
'Dark and sinister man,' Peter answered, 'have at thee.'"
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

43 people liked it

"‘Wendy,’ Peter Pan continued in a voice that no woman has ever yet been able to resist, ‘Wendy, one girl is more use than twenty boys.’"
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

102 people liked it

"When a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and as there are always new babies there are always new fairies."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

2 people liked it

"Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written in miles and eons with a chisel on the side of a mountiantop"
— Gabrielle Zevin (Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac)

tags: inspirational
18 people liked it

"You forget all of it anyway. . . You forget who was cool and who was not, who was pretty, smart, athletic, and not. . . You forget all of them. Even the ones you said you loved, and even the ones you actually did. They’re the last to go. And then once you’ve forgotten enough, you love someone else."
— Gabrielle Zevin (Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac)

36 people liked it

"There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment."
— Sarah Dessen (The Truth About Forever)

tags: love
2,673 people liked it

"I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed. "
— Sarah Dessen

635 people liked it

"Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you."
— Sarah Dessen (This Lullaby)

tags: love
1,155 people liked it

"Unrequited love is all right in books and things, but in real life, it completely sucks"
— Meg Cabot (Haunted)

123 people liked it

"And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time."
— Libba Bray (The Sweet Far Thing)

tags: change
255 people liked it

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

tags: wisdom
6,640 people liked it

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
— William Shakespeare (All's Well That Ends Well)

tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
3,969 people liked it

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind."
— William Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

tags: love
2,980 people liked it

"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them."
— William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night)

tags: greatness
2,812 people liked it

"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."
— William Shakespeare

870 people liked it

"A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow."
— William Shakespeare

tags: friendship
743 people liked it

"O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father refuse thy name, thou art thyself thou not a montegue, what is montegue? tis nor hand nor foot nor any other part belonging to a man
What is in a name?
That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,
So Romeo would were he not Romeo called retain such dear perfection to which he owes without that title,
Romeo, Doth thy name!
And for that name which is no part of thee, take all thyself....
- (Act II, Scene II)"
— William Shakespeare (Romeo And Juliet)

tags: love, romeo-and-juliet
467 people liked it

"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"
— William Shakespeare

tags: comedy, elizabethan, goodfellow, robin
274 people liked it

"thus with a kiss I die"
— William Shakespeare

tags: history, romance
164 people liked it

"The first thing we do, lets kill all the lawyers."
— William Shakespeare

119 people liked it

"By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. (Act 4, Scene 1)"
— William Shakespeare (Macbeth)

105 people liked it

"'...Have you fallen in love with the wrong person yet?'
Jace said, "Unfortunately, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remains myself."
..."At least," she said, "you don't have to worry about rejection, Jace Wayland."
"Not necessarily. I turn myself down occasionally, just to keep it interesting.""
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)

500 people liked it

"There is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then."
— Cassandra Clare (City of Glass)

tags: romance, teen-fantasy, the-mortal-instruments-series
384 people liked it

"I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass"
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)

322 people liked it

"When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, and then throw it in the
face of the person who gave you the lemons until they give you the
oranges you originally asked for."
— Cassandra Clare

289 people liked it

""Is this the part where you start tearing off strips of your shirt to bind my wounds?"

"If you wanted me to rip my clothes off, you should have just asked.""
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)

tags: clary, clothes, jace, wounds
285 people liked it

"If you were half as funny as you think you are, you'd be twice as funny as you are now."
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)

257 people liked it

""Jesus!" Luke exclaimed.
"Actually, it's just me," said Simon. "Although I've been told the resemblance is startling."
"
— Cassandra Clare

tags: humor
236 people liked it

" "I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teeenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead."
"Well," said Luke, "you're doing a vantastic job.""
— Cassandra Clare (City of Ashes)

226 people liked it

"'...in fact, don't touch any of my weapons without my permission.'
"Well, there goes my plan for selling them all on ebay," Clary muttered.
"Selling them on what?"
Clary smiled blandly at him, "A mythical place of great magical power.""
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)

232 people liked it

"'the cuckoo bird,' she said. 'You see, cuckoos are parasites. They lay their eggs in other birds' nests. When the egg hatches, the baby cuckoo pushes the other baby birds out of the nest. The poor parent birds work themselves to death trying to find enough food to feed the enormous cuckoo child who has murdered their babies and taken their places.'

'Enormous?' said Jace. 'Did you just call me fat?'

'It was an analogy.'

'I am not fat.'

-Jace and Inquistor"
— Cassandra Clare (City of Ashes)

tags: imposters
212 people liked it

"'We came to see Jace. Is he alright?' -Clary

'I don't know,' Magnus said. 'Does he normally just lie on the floor like that without moving?'"
— Cassandra Clare (City of Ashes)

tags: clary, jace, magnus
225 people liked it

""I am a man" he told her,"and men do not consume pink beverages. Get thee gone woman, and bring me something brown"
-Jace Wayland"
— Cassandra Clare (City of Glass)

tags: brown, city-of-glass, clare, isabelle, jace
220 people liked it

"Not everything is about you," Clary said furiously.
"Possibly," Jace said, "but you do have to admit that the majority of things are."
— Cassandra Clare (City of Glass)

tags: teen-fantasy, the-mortal-instruments-series
217 people liked it

""That does it," said Jace. "I'm going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year."
"Why?" Isabelle said.
"So you can look up 'fun.' I'm not sure you know what it means.""
— Cassandra Clare (City of Ashes)

tags: danger, dictionary, fun, humor
191 people liked it

"Jace: Do you remember back at the hotel when you promised that if we lived, you’d get dressed up in a nurse’s outfit and give me a sponge bath.
Clary: It was Simon who promised you the sponge bath.
Simon: As soon as I’m back on my feet, handsome.
Jace: I knew we should have left you a rat.
"
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)

tags: city-of-bones, clary, jace-wayland, simon
206 people liked it

"Mom. I have something to tell you. I’m undead. Now, I know you may have some preconceived notions about the undead. I know you may not be comfortable with the idea of me being undead. But I’m here to tell you that undead are just like you and me…Well, okay. Possibly more like me than you.
-Simon"
— Cassandra Clare (City of Ashes)

tags: city-of-ashes, humor, mortal-instruments, simon, vampire
186 people liked it

"And I'm suppose to sit by while you date boys and fall in love with someone else, get married...?" His voice tightened. "And meanwhile, I'll die a little bit more every day, watching."
— Cassandra Clare (City of Glass)

tags: romance, teen-fantasy, the-mortal-instruments-series
192 people liked it

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