Words worth keeping

What are men to rocks and mountains?

Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.

What is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those seconds must have been awful as her heart burst and her lungs collapsed and there was no air and no blood to her brain and only raw panic. What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.

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

It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.

I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass.

because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff. Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it. Hank, when people call people nerds, mostly what they’re saying is ‘you like stuff.’ Which is just not a good insult at all. Like, ‘you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness’.

The town was paper, but the memories were not.

My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here.

Wow," Thalia muttered. "Apollo is hot." "He's the sun god," I said."That's not what I meant.

Maybe 'okay' will be our 'always

It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.

Don't order any of the faerie food," said Jace, looking at her over the top of his menu. "It tends to make humans a little crazy. One minute you're munching a faerie plum, the next minute you're running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not," he added hastily, "that this has ever happened to me.

Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!

What you seek is seeking you.