“He wanted to explain how people were never quite what you thought they were.”

“You were never what I wanted to forget.”

“"When I was crazy." the radio explained, "I thought you were great."”

“You could say anything you wanted to someone you thought you were never going to see again.”

“If you were a god, how would you like being called a myth, an old story to explain lightning? What if I told you, Perseus Jackson, that someday people would call you a myth, just created to explain how little boys can get over losing their mothers?”

“He had quite liked the dwarfs. He often had no idea what they were talking about, but for a group of homicidal, class-obsessed small people, they were really rather good fun.”

“Duran quit in frustration. People were laughing and he couldn't deal with that.”

“He thought of his remembrance of Jordan, thought of how it hurt to even look at Isabelle and Clary. Without memory, they were lost. And nobody wanted someone they loved to be lost.”

“But all these were things he could not want, because they were things he could not have, and wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness.”

“He always lived in his head. He never cared about how things were, only how they would be, someday, when he had everything he wanted. When we had everything we wanted.”