A.B.G. > A.B.G.'s Quotes

“But we all have darkness inside us. It is just a question of how much of us is light as well.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, All the Crooked Saints

“The procedure cannot be faulted for the heart remembering what the mind forgot,”
― Adam Silvera, More Happy Than Not

“Maybe great, epic romances don't just happen. We have to make them ourselves.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cress

“Loss was an inevitability of love, pain the inescapable price of joy. Everyone had to learn this someday—maybe this was what it meant to grow up.”
― Cassandra Clare, Through Blood, Through Fire

“One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“Have you fallen in love with wrong person yet?”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“A secret too long kept can kill a soul by inches. I watched a secret almost destroy a man once, the finest man ever made. Such a secret is like keeping treasure in a tomb. Little by little, poison eats away at the gold. By the time the door is opened, there may be nothing left but dust.”
― Cassandra Clare, Ghosts of the Shadow Market

“Every world contains worlds within it. People wander through all the worlds they can find, searching for their homes.”
― Cassandra Clare, Ghosts of the Shadow Market

“Feeling is what makes us human. Even the most difficult feelings. Perhaps especially those. Love, loss, longing—this is what it means to be truly alive.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Wicked Ones

“My true love has my heart, and I have his. Never was a fairer bargain made.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Land I Lost

“If you pretend to feel nothing, the pretence may become true. said Jem. That would be a pity.”
― Cassandra Clare, Son of the Dawn

“Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

“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

“It was easier not to feel. It was safer not to love. It was possible to make oneself silent and still as stone, to wall oneself off from the world and its losses, to empty one’s heart. It was possible, but it was not human.”
― Cassandra Clare, Through Blood, Through Fire

“Growing up unafraid of the world is a good way to get destroyed by it”
― Cassandra Clare, Through Blood, Through Fire

“It was easier to die protecting the people you loved than to watch them die in your stead. What horrific choices mortality had to offer.”
― Cassandra Clare, Through Blood, Through Fire

“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

“Out of the corner of her eye she thought she saw Jace shoot her a look of white rage - but when she glanced at him, he looked as he always did: easy, confident, slightly bored.
"In future, Clarissa," he said, "it might be wise to mention that you already have a man in your bed, to avoid such tedious situations."
"You invited him into bed?" Simon demanded, looking shaken.
"Ridiculous, isn't it?" said Jace. "We would never have all fit."
"I didn't invite him into bed," Clary snapped. "We were just kissing."
"Just kissing?" Jace's tone mocked her with its false hurt. "How swiftly you dismiss our love.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance covers?”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“It wouldn't be my move," Jace agreed. "First the candy and flowers, then the apology letters, then the ravenous demon hordes. In that order.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“Jace's eyes sparkled, but he said calmly, "Not at all. the Silent Brothers can help her retrieve her memories."
"You hate the Silent Brothers," protested Isabelle.
"I don't hate them," said Jace candidly."I'm afraid of them. It's not the same thing."
"I thought you said they were libarians," said Clary.
"They are librarians."
Simon whistled. "Those must be some killer late fees.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“Not everything that's true needs to be said.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“It's so dark," she said lamely.

"You want me to hold your hand?"

Clary put both her hands behind her back like a small child.

"Don't talk down to me."

"Well, I could hardly talk up to you. You're too short.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones