- "Humans were so stupid. They had something so precious, and they barely safeguarded it at all. They threw away their lives for money, for packets of powder, for a stranger's charming smile."
- "It is easy to go down into Hell."
- "How exhausting, Clary thought, to fight all your life and then be expected to continue that fight even when your life was over."
- "Every teenager in the world feels like that, feels broken or out of place, different somehow, royalty mistakenly born into a family of peasants."
- "You cannot save others until you first save yourself."
- "'Everything down there is exactly the same,' he said, angling the cycle toward the East River. They were heading toward the Brooklyn Bridge again. 'You’re the one that’s different'."
- "Why mundanes always insist on taking responsibility for things that aren't their fault is a mystery to me."
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower
- “So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.”
- “She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time.”
- “Things change, friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.”
- “I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs.”
- “You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.”
- “Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
- The Fellowship of the Ring
- "I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
- "Mas há um limite. Você não pode achar que é capaz de dar tudo para todo mundo que ama. Não dá para você fazer tudo."
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