"It was as though each of them had discovered something unexpected but infinitely desirable. They were not yet sure of each other, but they wanted to be."
- Cassandra Clare
Love
"I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there's a life after that, I'll love you then."
- Cassandra Clare
Love
"I am catastrophically in love with you."
- Cassandra Clare
Love
"I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you."
- Cassandra Clare
Love
"You and me, we're like two fish in the sea of love."
- Cassandra Clare
Love
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity