“Maybe she hadn’t saved the world but she had made a major improvement.”

“Well maybe the princess shouldn't be a damsel and she could save herself.”

“She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.”

“She had made the choice for him - in a moment of flight and panic, but she had made it - not realizing that her Jace would rather die than be like this, and that she'd been not so much saving his life as damning him to an existence he would despise.”

“Maybe there was no happily ever after […] but there was happiness sometimes and she had it now, doing what she knew she was born for.”

“She fell, she hurt, she felt. She lived. And for all the tumble of her experiences, she still had hope. Maybe this next time would do the trick. Or maybe not. But unless you stepped into the game, you would never know.”

“I hadn’t learned much in high school; I had majored in girls.”

“Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.”

“He sometimes wondered if she had become involved with him just so that she could cry in someone's arms. Maybe she can't cry alone, and that's why she needs me.”

“She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he was really at home in it but too late to go back, she had left him stranded there--like an astronaut wandering about on the moon. Alone.”