“Even in cultures where marriages are arranged by parents, you’re never actually forbidden to fall in love with your mate.”

“it is
forbidden to love where we are not loved”

“Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.”

“Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.”

“True marriage is the union that mates
Equal with equal.”

“Lara Jean, I think you half-fall in love with every person you meet. It’s part of your charm. You’re in love with love.”

“It is not your love that sustains the marriage,
but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.”

“Isabelle!” Simon called. “Stop throwing clothes at me! Just because you’re a Shadowhunter and I’m a vampire doesn’t mean we can never happen. Our love is forbidden like the love of a shark and a—and a shark hunter. But that’s what makes it special.”

“Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: you’re falling to the floor crying thinking, “I am falling to the floor crying,” but there’s an element of the ridiculous to it — you knew it would happen and, even worse, while you’re on the floor crying you look at the place where the wall meets the floor and you realize you didn’t paint it very well.”

“My aim has always been modest; I wanted to transform the arranged marriage (of art and architecture) into a love match.”