But it doesn't change what we are to each other. It's like there's always been a piece of my soul missing, and it's inside you, Clary. 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.

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

Sigmund Freud

Alison Lohman is an amazing actress. I was so proud to work with her.

Taryn Manning

It is you I foreknew and have predestined for such a time as this. Just as My heart has so eagerly chosen you, William Ore, you must also choose me.

M.J. Chrisman

As a kid, all I thought about was death.

Maurice Sendak

Grasp the subject, the words will follow.

Cato The Elder

Love will make a man do some funny things, like tightrope walking across a telephone wire, rather than simply picking up the phone to call or text.

Jarod Kintz

Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

William Eardley IV

My father was a Catholic, but my mother wasn't. She had to do that weird deal you do as a Catholic - they deign to sanction your marriage and you have to bring your children up as Catholics.

Jared Harris

But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

Desmond Tutu

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Theresa

In the bleak midwinterFrosty wind made moan,Earth stood hard as iron,Water like a stone;Snow had fallen, snow on snow,Snow on snow,In the bleak midwinter,Long ago.

Christina Rossetti, MidWinter, 1

Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Stuart Cloete