“You have to look at yourself objectively. Analyze yourself like an instrument. You have to be absolutely frank with yourself. Face your handicaps, don't try to hide them. Instead, develop something else.”

“You have in yourself the instrument of your cure.”

“So long as you “have” yourself, have yourself as an object, your experience of man is only as of a thing among things.”

“I don't want to see you. I don't like you. I don't like your face. You look like an insufferable egotist. You're impertinent. You're too sure of yourself. Twenty years ago I would have punched your face with the greatest of pleasure.”

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

“They all have always loved you, Will Herondale, for you cannot hide what is good about yourself, however hard you try.”

“If killing yourself is not an option anymore,
you have to sink into the darkness instead,
and make something out of it.”

“If you see something different for yourself in the future, you have to do something different for yourself in the present.”

“You must not take out your sword because if you try to kill someone, you must die for it yourself. What you must do instead is kill yourself, kill your own mind.”

“Feelings are your guide. Trust your feelings and learn to express them, and do not blame anyone for how you feel. Be yourself, observe yourself. Look to understand any crisis you have been in or will be in.”