“Now I hold that necessity merits more amiable adjectives;--what a great deal of trouble is saved thereby. To an undecided person like myself, the inevitable is invaluable.”

“I like to hold a monologue with women. But a dialogue with myself is more stimulating.”

“I must hold in balance the sense of the futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle; the conviction of the inevitability of failure and still the determination to "succeed" — and, more than these, the contradiction between the dead hand of the past and the high intentions of the future.”

“This and a great deal more like it I have had to put up with.”

“You are a great deal of trouble, Jace Herondale”

“Sometimes I imagine myself looking back on right now and I think like where will I be standing when I look back Will right now look like the beginning of a great life or… or what”

“What person with any sense likes himself? I know myself too well to like myself.”

“I don't think necessity is the mother of invention — invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.”

“A great deal that I no longer continue in myself continues there on its own.”

“People with lost personalities will suffer a great deal more than those with lost virginities.”