Chapter 24 Quotes

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

“I have heard sometimes that men who lose an arm of a leg still feel that pain in those limbs, though they are gone,' said Will. 'It is like that sometimes. I can feel Jem with me, though he is gone, and it is like I am missing a part of myself.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

“Those of us who do not live forever do not like change perhaps as much as those of you who do.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

“Life is full of risks. Death is much simpler.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Princess

“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.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“Live in the present, make the most of it, it's all you've got.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“I was just thinking – today is the first and last day of forever. It’s kind of hard to wrap my head around it. Even with all this extra room for wrapping.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Breaking Dawn

“That's why there's a devil—to judge the priests.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The First Circle

“Francesca não precisava amá-lo. Mas tinha de se sentir livre. Livre para ser feliz.
Porque se não estivesse feliz...
Bem, ‘isso’ o mataria. Podia viver sem o seu amor, mas não sem a sua felicidade.”
― Julia Quinn, When He Was Wicked

“The way the two of them look at each other is like touching.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“Grand designs in war are a thing of vanity. Victory goes to the general that blunders the least.”
– Theodosius the Unconquered, Tyrant of Helike”
― ErraticErrata, So You Want to Be a Villain?

“It was long before Fanny could recover from the agitating happiness of such an hour as was formed by the last thirty minutes of expectation, and the first of fruition; it was some time even before her happiness could be said to make her happy, before the disappointment inseparable from the alteration of person had vanished, and she could see in him the same William as before, and talk to him, as her heart had been yearning to do through many a past year.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park