The best Quotes from The Infernal Devices

Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.

"One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us."

One does not question miracles, or complain that they are not constructed perfectly to one's liking.

It is not easy to be different, and even less so to be unique.

Life is full of risks. Death is much simpler.

When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does.

If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?

It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.

"Jesus!" Luke exclaimed.
"Actually, it's just me," said Simon. "Although I've been told the resemblance is startling."

Will looked horrified. "What kind of monster could possibly hate chocolate?"

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.

The measure of love is to love without measure.

There are so many worse things than death. Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse.

Every meeting led to a parting, and so it would, as long as life was mortal. In every meeting there was some of the sorrow of parting, but in everything parting there was some of the joy of meeting as well.

I thought perhaps that when you told me you did not love me that my own feelings would fall away and atrophy, but they have not. They have grown every day. I love you now more desperately, this moment, than I have ever loved you before, and in an hour I will love you more than that.

Do not seek revenge and call it justice.

There is more to living than not dying.

Men may be stronger, but it is women who endure.

No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily.

It has been the privilege and the honor of my life to know you.

I am catastrophically in love with you.