Alice > Alice's Quotes

“We both see the same world, but in a different way. Ty feels the same joy I do, the joy of creation. We feel all the same things, only the shapes of our feelings are different.”
― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

“Wild birds die in cages.”
― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale

“I would walk into the jaws of hell itself, if it were a path of my own choosing.”
― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale

“Witch. The word drifted across his mind. We call such women so, because we have no other name.”
― Katherine Arden, The Girl in the Tower

“I did not know I was lonely, she thought, until I was no longer alone.”
― Katherine Arden, The Girl in the Tower

“It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“We live and breathe words. .... It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how you were lonely sometimes and afraid, but always brave; the way you saw the world, its colors and textures and sounds, I felt--I felt the way you thought, hoped, felt, dreamt. I felt I was dreaming and thinking and feeling with you. I dreamed what you dreamed, wanted what you wanted--and then I realized that truly I just wanted you.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“Tess, Tess, Tessa.

Was there ever a more beautiful sound than your name? To speak it aloud makes my heart ring like a bell. Strange to imagine that, isn’t it – a heart ringing – but when you touch me that is what it is like: as if my heart is ringing in my chest and the sound shivers down my veins and splinters my bones with joy.

Why have I written these words in this book? Because of you. You taught me to love this book where I had scorned it. When I read it for the second time, with an open mind and heart, I felt the most complete despair and envy of Sydney Carton. Yes, Sydney, for even if he had no hope that the woman he loved would love him, at least he could tell her of his love. At least he could do something to prove his passion, even if that thing was to die.

I would have chosen death for a chance to tell you the truth, Tessa, if I could have been assured that death would be my own. And that is why I envied Sydney, for he was free.

And now at last I am free, and I can finally tell you, without fear of danger to you, all that I feel in my heart.

You are not the last dream of my soul.

You are the first dream, the only dream I ever was unable to stop myself from dreaming. You are the first dream of my soul, and from that dream I hope will come all other dreams, a lifetime’s worth.

With hope at least,
Will Herondale”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“Sometimes family isn’t a thing we are born into but a choice we make. Sometimes”—Evie smiled—“the people who love you most in your life are the ones who choose you.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain

“We're all monsters in the end. At least mine lives in the light.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“There is so much that can be fixed by honesty, if you're brave enough to use it.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“Granted, she didn't want to become evil, but when you spend most of your life trying to see the sun, you begin to wish for rain.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“I don’t run from my demons. I welcome them. I let them envelop me until I grow stronger.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“Maybe that did make her a monster, but she was quickly learning that it took more to make a monster than a monstrous act.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“His chin tucked on her shoulder, and he fully let himself settle against her. His body let out such a deep, contented sigh, it was almost a growl. Like it had been waiting for her, and now that she was here, it would only live half as what it had been before, forever waiting to be whole again.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“Because we are always expected to plaster a grin on our faces even when we don’t wish to. I used to do it so often, I stopped being able to tell when I was smiling for me or for someone else. So now, I don’t smile unless I’m one hundred percent sure it’s something I want to do, not something someone else wants me to do.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain

“You laughed.”

“I know,” Trystan said, shaking his head, hoping to knock the building ache out of it.

“You’re fucked”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain

“When it comes to the thing one loves most, it is always better to be trapped together then free and apart.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“Her eyes burned, and she sounded like a rusty door hinge when she said, “You love me?” His lips drifted closer, his eyes closing as his forehead pressed against hers, a rightness in every place they touched. “If that’s what this awful feeling in my chest is, if that’s why I can’t imagine my life without you, if that’s what love is—then yes, Evie. I love you so much it’s terrible.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Accomplice to the Villain

“You aren’t hungry. You are in love, you emotionally stunted fool.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Accomplice to the Villain

“Halp.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“And then she said it again. “I love you, Trystan, and there is nothing you can do to stop me.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Accomplice to the Villain