“Appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist even if not for him, will not be wholly dejected by losing her, would rather have it so than never to have seen her at all.”

“But so fair,
She takes the breath of men away
Who gaze upon her unaware.”

“Existence, after losing her, would be hell”

“He must have loved her so incredibly hard. So hard that he would never ask for her lips again and would go to his grave without them.”

“I'd rather lose her from my life, but know she was alive and well than lose her altogether to death.”

“The irony of her story is merely that her love became, in the end, her motive rather than her goal, the doorway rather than the house.”

“Love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is the fruit of love the verb or our loving actions. So love her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her.”

“Trust me?" I held my breath for her answer. She had every reason not to trust me. I'd been her kidnapper, her captor, yet I'd rather have died than hurt a single hair on her head.”

“She had made the choice for him - in a moment of flight and panic, but she had made it - not realizing that her Jace would rather die than be like this, and that she'd been not so much saving his life as damning him to an existence he would despise.”

“I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.”