cassandra-clare

For the devil has no power . . . except in the dark." - Madame Dorothea

You are all that exists on the earth and under the sky that I do love. - Keiran

The funny thing about mundies is how obsessed with magic they are for a bunch of people who don't even know what the word means.

As long as there is love and memory, there is no true death," - John Carstairs

Without memory, they were lost. And nobody wanted someone they loved to be lost.

Eternity is a long time to spend alone, without others of your kind.

You couldn__ make someone love you with a rune, and you couldn__ assuage grief with it either. So much magic, Clary thought, and nothing to mend a broken heart.

I did not think you would be angry, Jem burst out, and it was like ice cracking across a frozen waterfall, freeing a torrent. We were engaged, Tessa. A proposal-an offer of marriage-is a promise. A promise to love and care for someone always. I did not mean to break mine to you. But it was that or die. I wanted to wait, to be married to you and live wit you for years, but that wasn't possible. I was dying too fast. I would have given it up-all of it up-to be married to you for a day. A day that would never have come. You are a reminder-a reminder of everything I am losing. The life I will not have.

And she wept as well for the others lost in the Dark War, and she wept for her mother and the loss she had endured, and she wept for Emma and the Blackthorns, remembering how they had fought back tears when she had told them that she had seen Mark in the tunnels of Faerie, and how he belonged to the Hunt now, and she wept for Simon and the hole in her heart where he had been, and the she would miss him every day until she died, and she wept for herself and the changes that had been wrought in her, because sometimes even change for the better felt like a little death.

He remembered Tessa weeping in his arms in Paris, and thinking that he had never known the loss she felt, because he had never loved like she had, and that he was afraid that someday he would, and like Tessa he would lose his mortal love. And that it was better to be the one who died than the one who lived on. He had dismissed that, later, as a morbid fantasy, and had not remembered it again until Alec.

Your angel cannot protect you against that which neither god nor the devil had made

Your pretense does not fool me, gnome. My eye will be upon you.

Our fathers were demons,' Catarina said. 'Our mothers were heroes.

You shouldn't do that. Not to your child. You should-carry your own burdens.

I was trying to make you jealous!" Simon screamed, right back. His hands were fisted at his sides. "You're so stupid, Clary. You're so stupid, can't you see anything?"She stared at him in bewilderment. What on earth did he mean? "Trying to make me jealous? Why would you try to do that?"She saw immediately that this was the worst thing she could have asked him."Because," he said, so bitterly that it shocked her, "I've been in love with you for ten years, so I thought it seemed like the time to find out whether you felt the same about me. Which, I guess you don't.

My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health.

It was hard to live normally when you were constantly pretending you didn't see what was going on in front of your face.

It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could never love anyone, never be loved by anyone again.