In new situations, all the trickiest rules are the ones nobody bothers to explain to you. (And the ones you can't Google.)

She smiled, and her eyes started to drift downward. "Cather..." Back up to his eyes. "You know that I'm falling in love with you, right?

So, what if, instead of thinking about solving you whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.

You're a kaleidoscope, you change every time I look away.

Drinking tequila is more about the journey than the destination

Every woman wants a man who'll fall in love with her soul as well as her body.

Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can’t quite keep up with gravity.

You don’t have to be the kind of beautiful that everyone can agree on. If the right person finds you beautiful, you win. You win forever.

To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.

Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.

And sometimes you held somebody’s hand just to prove that you were still alive, and that another human being was there to testify to that fact.

Every day we wake up, we have an opportunity to do some good, but there's so much bad that you have to navigate to get to the good.

I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s.

Not everything is about you," Clary said furiously. "Possibly," Jace said, "but you do have to admit that the majority of things are.

I'll be one of the spokespeople, one of the people who sells the Administration's plans.

Each time you go to the same track you know whether you're improving or whether you're not... it's not open to interpretation. It's measurable - unlike acting.

Well, I think the best form would be to put money directly in the pockets of consumers.

I scowled defensively. "My conversations don't usually include the subject of erections." "Too bad," he said. "All the best conversations do.

I am very traditional, and I am the disciplinarian.

It's fantastic that the world is becoming more open to different ways of working, but we still have a long way to go in terms of changing perceptions.

Beirut is where I was born and raised.