The best Quotes from The Last Hours

I sometimes wonder, if we can ever quite understand other people. All we can do is try, I suppose.

You cannot save people who do not want to be saved. You can only stand by their side and hope that when they wake and realize they need saving, you will be there to help them.

These pictures are my heart. And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you.

When I can't bend heaven I will raise hell.

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

If you never tell anyone the truth about yourself, eventually you start to forget (...). If I kept them all inside,my memories of them would start to diaappear,. And then I would disappear.

Everytime I think I'm missing a piece of me, you give it back.

Because the world isn't divided into the special and the ordinary.
Everyone has the potential to be extra ordinary. As long as you have a soul and free will, you can be anything, do anything, choose anything.

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

"I don't know why I ever helped you."
"Because you like broken things."

Temper us in fire and we grow strong. When we suffer, we survive.

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

You know, when most girls say they want a big rock, they don't mean, you know, literally a big rock.

This is about more than us.

The stories you were told about monsters, nightmares, legends whispered around campfires. They are all true.

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.

I'm the one with Team Evil over here. You're Team Good. Keep it in mind.
-Clary

There might be a god, and there might not, but I don't think it matters, Clary. Either way, we're on our own.

If you were half as funny as you think you are, you'd be twice as funny as you are now.

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.

He remembered the first time he’d kissed her, in the greenhouse, how he’d finally gotten it, finally understood the way someone’s mouth against yours could undo you, leave you spinning and breathless. That all the expertise in the world, any techniques you knew or had learned, went out the window when it was the right person you were kissing.

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.

Walk until the darkness is a memory, and you become the sun on the next traveler's horizon.

Humans had always been better at killing than any other living thing.

"And what if there's nothing in there?"
"You die and there's nothing beyond that. Nothing. Nothing remains. Someone might remember you for a little while after but not for long."