“Whenever I get happy, I always have a terrible feeling.”

“It occurred to me that I was unhappy. And it didn’t feel so very terrible. No urgency, nothing. I could slip out of my life on a slow wave like this—it didn’t matter. I don’t have to be happy. All I have to do is hold on to something and wait.”

“Happiness in it's uncut form
Is the feeling that I get, you're warm, warm
Happy's what I get when we do what we do
Happiness, mama, is being with u
Good lord.”

“I always thought being a Shadowhunter meant that I had to approve of what the Clave did. I thought otherwise I wasn't loyal. I made excuses for them. I always have. But I feel like whenever we have to fight, we're fighting a war on two fronts. We fight the enemy and we fight the Clave, too. I don't--I just don't know how I feel anymore.”

“Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.”

“I am always trying to 'preserve' things by getting other people to read what I have written, and feel what I felt.”

“Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.”

“"How do you feel?"
"Terrible. I must have gone to bed sober."”

“I know you have it in you, Guy," Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be terribly happy.”

“I don't need a "reason" to be happy. I don't have to consult the future to know how happy I feel now.”