“Everyone has choices to make; no one has the right to take those choices away from us. Not even out of love..”

Source: City of Bones

Source: City of Ashes; Clary Fray

Source: East of Eden

The affection my family have found in one another is not a better love, but it is another love, and just as species diversity is crucial to sustain the planet, this diversity strengthens the ecosphere of kindness. The road less traveled by, as it turns out, leads to pretty much the same place.
Source: Far from the Tree, Ch. 12 Father, p. 700.

“We are mortals,” she said with a shrug. “That is our particular doom.”
Book 3, Chapter 3 “Celebrations at the Silver Flower Oasis” (p. 267)
The Elric Cycle, The Fortress of the Pearl (1989)

Source: East of Eden

Global Goals United Nations https://twitter.com/GlobalGoalsUN/status/712709697468571648 (March 23, 2016)
2010s

Source: One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future