“People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.”
More from Cassandra Clare on Life
“...wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness.”
“There is more to living than not dying.”
“In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn't matter how hard it was to make it. It matters that you did.”
“Being sixteen forever sounded good until you really thought about it. Then it didn't seem like such a great prospect.”
“He was a vampire now. He was supposed to have eternity. But what he had was days.”
“Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”
“I'm not unhappy," he said. "Only people with no purpose are unhappy. I've got a purpose.”
“He wondered if normalcy was something, like vision or silence, you didn't realize was precious until you lost it.”
“What was the point in crying when there was no one to comfort you? And what was worse, when you couldn't even comfort yourself?”
“You are mortal. You age, you die. If that is not hell, pray tell me, what is?”
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Henry Miller
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