Advice from imaginary characters

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"One must always be careful of books, and what's inside them. For words have the power to change us" —Tessa Grey

"It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it."
                                             —Sophie Collins

"Whatever you are physically...male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy--all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but you are the light inside." —James "Jem" Carstairs

—Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare