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  • #1
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.”
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  • #2
    John Milton
    “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
    John Milton, Paradise Lost

  • #3
    John Milton
    “Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.”
    John Milton, Paradise Lost

  • #4
    John Milton
    “Solitude sometimes is best society.”
    John Milton, Paradise Lost

  • #5
    John Milton
    “What hath night to do with sleep?”
    John Milton, Paradise Lost

  • #6
    John Milton
    “Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.”
    John Milton, Paradise Lost

  • #7
    John Milton
    “What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones,
    The labor of an age in pilèd stones,
    Or that his hallowed relics should be hid
    Under a star-y-pointing pyramid?
    Dear son of memory, great heir of fame,
    What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name?”
    John Milton, The Complete Poetry

  • #8
    John Milton
    “How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,
    Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!”
    John Milton

  • #9
    John Milton
    “I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night,
    Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down
    The dark descent, and up to reascend...”
    John Milton, Paradise Lost

  • #10
    John Milton
    “All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.”
    John Milton, Paradise Lost

  • #11
    John Milton
    “Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.”
    John Milton, The Complete Poetry

  • #12
    Aldous Huxley
    “God isn't the son of Memory; He's the son of Immediate Experience. You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment.”
    Aldous Huxley, The Genius and the Goddess: a Novel

  • #13
    John Milton
    “Into this wild Abyss/ The womb of Nature, and perhaps her grave--/ Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire,/ But all these in their pregnant causes mixed/ Confusedly, and which thus must ever fight,/ Unless the Almighty Maker them ordain/ His dark materials to create more worlds,--/ Into this wild Abyss the wary Fiend/ Stood on the brink of Hell and looked a while,/ Pondering his voyage; for no narrow frith/ He had to cross. ”
    John Milton, Paradise Lost

  • #14
    John Milton
    “Me miserable! Which way shall I fly
    Infinite wrath and infinite despair?
    Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell;
    And in the lowest deep a lower deep,
    Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide,
    To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.”
    John Milton, Paradise Lost

  • #15
    Dante Alighieri
    “The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain.”
    Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

  • #16
    Dante Alighieri
    “In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself within a dark woods where the straight way was lost.”
    Dante Alighieri, Inferno

  • #17
    Dante Alighieri
    “Through me you pass into the city of woe:
    Through me you pass into eternal pain:
    Through me among the people lost for aye.
    Justice the founder of my fabric moved:
    To rear me was the task of power divine,
    Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.
    Before me things create were none, save things
    Eternal, and eternal I shall endure.
    All hope abandon, ye who enter here.”
    Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, the Purgatorio and the Paradiso

  • #18
    Dante Alighieri
    “Love insists the loved loves back”
    Dante Alighieri

  • #19
    Dante Alighieri
    “The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream.”
    Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

  • #20
    Cassandra Clare
    “Have you fallen in love with the wrong person yet?'
    Jace said, "Unfortunately, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remains myself."
    ..."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.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

  • #21
    Cassandra Clare
    “Is this the part where you start tearing off strips of your shirt to bind my wounds?"
    "If you wanted me to rip my clothes off, you should have just asked.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

  • #22
    “If you were half as funny as you think you are, you'd be twice as funny as you really are.”
    H.N. Turteltaub, The Sacred Land

  • #23
    Cassandra Clare
    “Don't touch any of my weapons without my permission."
    "Well, there goes my plan for selling them all on eBay," Clary muttered.
    "Selling them on what?"
    Clary smiled blandly at him. "A mythical place of great magical power.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

  • #24
    Cassandra Clare
    “It means 'Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of our Enemies Since 1234'.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

  • #25
    Cassandra Clare
    “Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

  • #26
    Cassandra Clare
    “The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

  • #27
    Cassandra Clare
    “One of the Silent Brothers is here to see you. Hodge sent me to wake you up. Actually he offered to wake you himself, but since it's 5 a.m., I figured you'd be less cranky if you had something nice to look at."
    "Meaning you?"
    "What else?”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

  • #28
    Cassandra Clare
    “Investigation?" Isabelle laughed. "Now we're detectives? Maybe we should all have code names."
    "Good idea," said Jace. "I shall be Baron Hotschaft Von Hugenstein.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

  • #29
    Cassandra Clare
    “Don't." Clary raised a warning hand. "I'm not really in the mood right now."
    "That's got to be the first time a girl's ever said that to me," Jace mused.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

  • #30
    Cassandra Clare
    “Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Bones



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