Bad bloods aren't born evil or dangerous. We are taught to be, but only because we have to if we want to survive.

What fueled this hatred? Society.

It's not the best life in the world, but it's all I know.

I’m not mad. I already told you that. We all have mistakes in our past...and our future. It’s a fact of life.

I wouldn’t be who I am today if it wasn’t for the people I had met and the people I had lost.

I thought of all the hardships and people that I had lost in the past few days alone, but, most of all, I thought of how I didn't regret any of it.

War makes animals of men, and we can't let that happen to us. If we do, we won't have any chance of survival.

He's been through so much and to watch that boy suffer makes me wish this world wasn't so cruel.

I saw something I could never forget. I saw lifetimes of acknowledgement, fear, wisdom, questioning, and understanding in a child's eye. It was the worst thing I would ever witness.

Until they feel what we feel, they will never fully understand the own hell they caused.

Damn the way he had control over me.

If everything happens for a reason that means you made the right choice even when it’s the wrong choice

I was going to be a teacher. I was applying to graduate school when I got the call to do 'Same Love, ' actually. I was gonna go to Boston University for my masters in teaching.

Coaxing drunken Shadowhunters into making fools of themselves was a favorite occupation among the Downworlders, and this performance had been a tremendous success.

Too darned good a machine can be a menace, not a help.

I'm going to do what I do, even more exaggerated. This is my attitude always. I don't betray myself at all.

It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.

In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world.

Creative writing and literacy go hand and hand.

Look as long as you can at the friend you love, no matter whether that friend is moving away from you or coming back toward you.

It was violent, it was brutal, and it got down right uglyyy!