"She was completely alone in the world. There was no one at all for her. No one in the world who cared whether she lived or died. Sometimes the horror of that thought threatened to overwhelm her and plunge her down into a bottomless darkness from which there would be no return. If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?"

"You could have fooled me. Everytime I called you, Luke said you were sick. I figured you were avoiding me. Again.""I wasn't. I did want to talk to you. I've been thinking about you all the time.""I've been thinking about you, too.""I really was sick. I swear. I almost died back there on the ship, you know.""I know. Everytime you almost die, I almost die myself."

"And next time you're planning to injure yourself to get me attention, just remember that a little sweet talk works wonders."

"That's everyone's dream, isn't it, really? Instead of many who give you little pieces of themselves-one who gives you everything."

"Hearts are breakable," Isabelle said. "And I think even when you heal, you're never what you were before"."

"And to the devil with it if she is!" said the Consul. "One girl, who is not Nephilim, is not, cannot, be our priority.""She is my priority!" Will shouted."

"If there's a thing I've learned in my life it's to not be afraid of the responsibility that comes with caring for other people. What we do for love: those things endure. Even if the people you do them for don't"

"She had never imagined she had the power to make someone else so happy. And not a magical power, either--a purely human one."

"It was stupid to hope, she knew. But sometimes hope was all you had."

"There are memories that time does not erase... Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable."