Chapter 23 Quotes

“Change is no loss, Will. Not always.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

“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 losting. The Life I will not have.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

“Go in peace, James Carstairs.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

“All my life, since I came to the Institute, you were the mirror of my soul. I saw the good in me in you. In your eyes alone I found grace. When you are gone from me, who will see me like that?”
― Cassandra Clare

“Jem?" he said. 'It is you, James?'
'Who else?' Jem's voice.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

“Despite his cynical exterior, he had a good heart-and Lissa owned most of it.”
― Richelle Mead, Blood Promise

“Shapes began to appear in the mist as it thickened. Clary saw herself and Simon as children, holding hands, crossing a street in Brooklyn,; she had barrettes in her hair and Simon was adorably rumpled, his glasses sliding off his nose. There they were again, throwing snowballs in Prospect Park; and at Luke's farmhouse, tanned from summer, hanging upside down from tree branches. She saw them in Java Jones, listening to Eric's terrible poetry, and on the back of a flying motorcycle as it crashed into a parking lot, with Jace there, looking at them, his eyes squinted against the sun. And there was Simon with Isabelle, his hands curved around her face, kissing her, and she could see Isabelle as Simon saw her: fragile and strong, and so, so beautiful. And there was Valentine's ship, Simon kneeling on Jace, blood on his mouth and shirt, and blood at Jace's throat, and there was the cell in Idris, and Hodge's weathered face, and Simon and Clary again, Clary etching the Mark of Cain onto his forehead. Maureen, and her blood on the floor, and her little pink hat, and the rooftop in Manhattan where Lilith had raised Sebastian, and Clary was passing him a gold ring across a table, and an Angel was rising out of a lake before him and he was kissing Isabelle...”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“It's impossible to say a thing exactly the way it was, because what you say can never be exact, you always have to leave something out, there are too many parts, sides, crosscurrents, nuances; too many gestures, which could mean this or that, too many shapes which can never be fully described, too many flavors, in the air or on the tongue, half-colors, too many. But if you happen to be a man, sometime in the future, and you've made it this far, please remember: you will never be subject to the temptation or feeling you must forgive, a man, as a women. It's difficult to resist, believe me. But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“I think everyone is strong and weak in different ways.”
― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

“Yes, Harry, you can love, said Dumbledore, who looked as though he knew perfectly well what Harry had just refrained from saying. Which, given everything that has happened to you, is a great and remarkable thing.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“Your heart is a weapon the size of your fist.”
― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

“Among all shravakas and pratyekabuddhas, bodhisattvas are the foremost. So is the Lotus Sutra; among all sutras, it is the foremost! Just as the Buddha is the King of the Law; so is the Lotus Sutra, it is the King of all Sutras!"

(LS 23:2.16)
Lotus Sutra, Chapter 23, Section 2, Paragraph 16”
― Gautama Buddha, The Lotus Sutra

“Officially, of course, we're all to be treated the same, yes? But that is rarely put into practice.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

“Trust is the victory of sentiment over reason.”
-Extract from the personal memoirs of Dread Emperor Terribilis II”
― ErraticErrata, So You Want to Be a Villain?

“Among all shravakas and pratyekabuddhas, bodhisattvas are the foremost. So is the Lotus Sutra; among all sutras, it is the foremost! Just as the Buddha is the King of the Law; so is the Lotus Sutra, it is the King of all Sutras!"

(LS 23:2.16)
Lotus Sutra, Chapter 23, Section 2, Paragraph 16”
― Buddha Minerva Lee

“In the end, it was all light and dark, loud and soft. I knew nothing but the memory of those I loved.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerful