Quotes About Independence

Jace shook his head. "I don't care if I did just set myself on fire," he said. "I'm not hugging you.

We are not our parents, Gabriel. We do not have to carry the burden of their choices or their sins.

You decide the truth about yourself. No one else. And the choice about what kind of person you will be is yours alone.

I need a bodyguard." Simon eyed him. "Have you been watching The Bodyguard? Because I am not going to fall in love with you and carry you around in my burly arms.

She did not belong to Will-she was too much herself to belong to anyone, even Jem-but she belonged with them, and silently he cursed the Consul for not seeing it.

In fact, it wouldn't hurt if you just spent the next few days inside. You can lock yourself in your room like Isabelle." "I'm not gonna do that." "Of course your not," said Jace, "because you live to torture me, don't you?" "Not everything, Jace, is about you," Clary said furiously. "Possibly," Jace said, "but you have to admit that the majority of things are." Clary resisted the urge to scream.

I knew then that I hadn't stopped believing in God. I'd just stopped believing God cared. There might be a God, Clary, and there might not, but I don't think it matters. Either way we're on our own.

I can stand." "It looks to me like you're using a wall to prop you up. that's not my definition of 'standing.'" "Its leaning," Jace told him. "Leaning comes right before standing.

We are Shadowhunters. We do not wait to be saved by others. We save ourselves.

Great," Simon said. "Maybe I'll even make it back before my mother notices I'm gone. What's the time difference between here and Manhattan?" "You have a mother?" Aline looked amazed.

Anyone who says women are weak is afraid they're too strong.

Women are fiercer by far than men.

I know I told you once that whether God exists or not, we're on our own. But when I'm with you, I'm not.

Fine," Emma said. She strode over to the corner and picked up the tapestry of Alec. "But I'm keeping this.

That's another thing," she said. "You no longer need other people in your life once you have found your true love. No wonder Magnus feels he cannot open up to you, when you rely so heavily upon these other people. When love is true, you should meet each other people. When love is true, you should meet each other's every desire, every need—A re you listening, young A lexander? For my advice is precious, and not given often…

La amaba lo suficiente para saber que ella estaría mejor sin él.

Unfortunately, Lady of Haven, my one true love remains myself. Dorothea roared at that. 'At least' she said, 'you don't have to worry about rejection, Jace Wayland.' 'Not necessarily. I turn myself down occasionally, just to keep it interesting'.

He loved her enough to know she was better off without him

It's not Cowardly to make a choice about what you want your life to be. Choosing what's right for you, maybe that's the bravest thing you can do.

Beautiful girls should know how to defend themselves against the advances of gentlemen.

The only one who gets to canoodle in my bedroom is my magnificent self.

You no longer need other people in your life once you have found your true love.

I don't want to be Nephilim," said Jace. "I want to be something else. Stronger, faster, better than human. But different. Not subservient to the Laws of an angel who couldn't care less about us. Free." He ran his hand through a curl of her hair. "I'm happy now, Clary. Doesn't that make a difference?

I'll walk you back, Jace said. "As for Simon, he can manage his own way back in the dark-can't you Simon?" "Of course he can, Alec said indignantly, as if eager to make up for his earlier slighting of Simon. "He's a vampire-and," he added, "I just realized that you were probably joking. Never mind me.