“Laura felt a warmth inside her. It was very small, but it was strong. It was steady, like a tiny light in the dark, and it burned very low but no winds could make it flicker because it would not give up.”

“I trusted her about as far as I could throw her. I was strong and she was small, but it still wasn't very far.”

“And as I watched him, I knew that in every dark night there was, somewhere, a small light burning that could never be quenched.”

“Whenever he felt like giving up, plopping himself down, and dying (which was, like, every ten minutes), he reached over and took her hand, just to remember there was warmth in the world.”

“Actually, I am a very strong player. Mentally very tough. I just don't give up very easily. I make my opponent work very hard.”

“Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.”

“For the first time I could remember, I felt weak, woozy and stupid— like a human-being. Like a very small and helpless human-being.”

“Clary saw him take Mark's hand; he pressed his witchlight into the boy's palm, where it flickered, and then resumed its steady glow. 'Take this with you,' said Jace, 'for it can be dark in the land under the hill, and the years very long.”

“Darkness approaches from outside.
I feel no light inside me strong enough to resist it.”

“Safeguard the warmth of the family, because all the warmth of the world will not make up for it.”