“There is nothing like a broken heart to nourish your own sense of self”

“As for broken hearts, no self-respecting young woman shows such an ornament at any well regulated breakfast-table; they are kept in dark drawers and closets like other broken furniture.”

“It takes a healthy sense of self to feel OK with nothing happening in your head.”

“True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.”

“In life, nothing will increase your self-esteem as much as make it on your own.”

“I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.”

“Take your broken heart, make it into art.”

“Sleep is not on good terms with broken hearts. It will have nothing to do with them.”

“So much magic, Clary thought, and nothing to mend a broken heart”

“It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.”