There were few things worse than being ordinary, in Evie’s opinion. Ordinary was for suckers.
Don't count on others to hand your life to you.
You have control over three things - what you think, what you say, and how you behave. To make a change in your life, you must recognize that these gifts are the most powerful tools you possess in shaping the form of your life.
The greatest gift you will ever have is your life, and the second greatest gift-which you give yourself-is courage to live it to the fullest. Time goes by quickly, and you cannot take it for granted.
Some people are not capable of giving you what you're trying to get from them.
Don't just get mad, try a little creative revenge. . . Creative revenge. . . allows you to get even - to extract some satisfactory justice - when you are wronged, but lets you do it with a sense of humor, not boiling malice.
No matter what you do in life, someone important to you isn't going to like it.
Charlotte said that if I chose, I could cease to be a Gray and take the name my mother should have had before she was married. I could be a Starkweather. I could have a true Shadowhunter name. " She heard Will exhale a breath. It came out a puff of white in the cold. His eyes were blue and wide and clear, fixed on her face. He wore the expression of a man who had steeled himself to do a terrifying thing, and was carrying it through. "Of course you can have a true Shadowhunter name," Will said. "You can have mine.
If he had his wits about him Bunny would surely keep his mouth shut; but now, with his subconscious mind knocked loose from its perch and flapping in the hollow corridors of his skull as erratically as a bat, there was no way to be sure of anything he might do.
Home is where you are appreciated, safe and protected, creative, and where you are loved - not where you are put in prison.
I would certainly like to see some young women take up psychoanalysis seriously and reconstruct it from an absolutely new viewpoint.