Jonathan Christopher Morgenstern Quotes & Sayings

You want a wife who is intelligent, but not too intelligent. — Richard M. Nixon

I want to marry you because I'm in love with you, Kat. I will always be in love with you. That's not going to change today or two weeks from now. I will be just as in love with you in twenty years as I am today. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Sometimes you must lose everything to gain it again, and the regaining is the sweeter for the pain of loss. — Cassandra Clare

Imagine if you were the last Shadowhunter left on earth, imagine if all your family and friends were dead, imagine if there were no one left who even believed in what you were. Imagine if you were on the earth in a billion, billion years, after the sun had scorched away all the life, and you were crying out from inside yourself for just one single living creature to still draw breath alongside you, but there was nothing, only rivers of fire and ashes. Imagine being that lonely. and then imagine there was only one way to fix it. Then imagine what you would do to make that thing happen. — Cassandra Clare

You could be a victim, you could be a hero, you could be a villain, or you could be a fugitive. But you could not just stand by. If you were in Europe between 1933 and 1945, you had to be something. — Alan Furst

Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners. — Colley Cibber

If the grain of wheat could know fear, it would be paralyzed with anxiety at the thought of being dropped in the ground, covered over, put out of sight, doomed to inactivity, yet what a glorious harvest awaits it! — Fred Rogers

All those adorable towheaded kids in the promotional film are going to turn thirteen. Once a family member hits puberty, odds are that everybody is not going to have the same ideals. Unless everybody gets together and agrees that the new ideals involve turning the front yard into a skate ramp and officially changing Dad's name to Fuckhead. — Sarah Vowell

The organization of ofices follows the principle of hierarchy ... each lower office is under the control and supervision of a higher one — Max Weber

Fermin shook his head. 'And is that why you believe that if you manage to unravel the mystery of Julian Carax and rescue him from oblivion, the face of your mother will come back to you?'
I looked at him. There was no irony or judgment in his expression. For a moment Fermin Romero de Torres seemed to me the wisest and most lucid man in the universe. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

You have ruthlessness in your bones and ice in your heart, Clarissa. Don't tell me any differently. — Cassandra Clare

In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.' — Marcus Aurelius

If I can join hands with FIFA and other continental bodies to promote football globally, then I can do more than that to raise African football to new heights. — Roger Milla

When you put your preferences on the altar of your life and say: THIS. THIS is what compels me. The real you emerges. — Danielle LaPorte

I am Valentine's son. Jonathan Christopher Morgenstern. You never had any right to that name. You're a ghost. And a pretender. — Cassandra Clare