Sword Catcher Quotes

“Everyone wants to tell you that it isn't so bad, but it is. You will be so sad that you will feel like you will die. But you won't die. And with every day that passes, you will get back a little piece of yourself.”
― Cassandra Clare, Sword Catcher

“I am the Prince's shield. I am his unbreakable armor. I bleed that he might not bleed. I suffer that he might never suffer. I die that he might live forever.”
― Cassandra Clare, Sword Catcher

“All that is good comes from the Gods. All that is evil comes from men.”
― Cassandra Clare, Sword Catcher

“Power is an illusion. Power exists because we believe it does. Kings and Queens—and yes, Princes—have power because we grant it to them.”
― Cassandra Clare, Sword Catcher

“After a few moments, he spoke again. "When I was younger, I thought the Ashkar must be very dangerous, to be kept within walls."

"When I was young," Lin said, reaching for bandages, "I thought the malbushim must be very dangerous, for us to have to keep them out with walls."

"Ah," he said, and yawned again. "Perspective is everything, isn't it?”
― Cassandra Clare, Sword Catcher

“I think", said Lin, trying to control her temper, "that for a religion that purports to worship a Goddess, who was once a powerful Queen, there are a great many men making decisions about what I, a woman, can read and do.”
― Cassandra Clare, Sword Catcher

“He does what he says he will do. If he says he will kill you, he will kill you. If he says he will protect you, he will protect you. To me that is a good man. Perhaps others might feel differently.”
― Cassandra Clare, Sword Catcher

“You don't have a choice, I hear. Love just happens to you, whether you like it or not; otherwise there wouldn't be so many songs. Besides, people do all sorts of things that are bad for them. I ought to know.”
― Cassandra Clare, Sword Catcher

“AI, LAS TAN CUIDAVA SABER D'AMORE, E TAN PETIT EN SAI.

Alas, how much I thought I knew of love, and yet how little I know.”
― Cassandra Clare, Sword Catcher

“I really don't care that much about retaining the moral high ground.”
― Cassandra Clare, Sword Catcher

“But it is said by the sages that he who desires all, loses all.”
― Cassandra Clare, Sword Catcher

“He kept his promises to Conor, but he would break a promise to anyone else for Conor's sake, in a heartbeat.”
― Cassandra Clare, Sword Catcher

“Falconet may be a bit mad."

"All the best people are.”
― Cassandra Clare, Sword Catcher

“One does not ask if one likes the Blood Royal. They simply are. It is like asking if one likes the Gods.”
― Cassandra Clare, Sword Catcher

“"For a Physician should mind not rank, wealth or age; neither should he question whether a patient is enemy or friend, a native or a foreigner, or what Gods he worships. To heal is as the Goddess commands."”
― Cassandra Clare, Sword Catcher

“The fact that he had nearly died was not even a stone in the road. It mattered only to him; it had changed no one but him. In that, he was alone.”
― Cassandra Clare, Sword Catcher

“He goes round in all black, like Gentleman Death come to take your soul, and his carriage wheels are stained with blood.”
― Cassandra Clare, Sword Catcher

“Conor captured one of Falconet's pieces and chuckled. Kel noted it in the back of his mind, where his awareness of Conor always lived. He wondered if mothers were like this about their children—always knowing where they were, if they were wounded or pleased. He didn't know; he had little experiences of mothers.”
― Cassandra Clare, Sword Catcher

“One cannot have everything, or the Gods would come to envy mortals. Is that not what happened to the Callatians? They built their towers too close to heaven, challenged the Gods with their accomplishments, and for it their Empire was destroyed?”
― Cassandra Clare, Sword Catcher

“But his loyalty was to House Aurelian, not the Charter Families. He would place his words between them and Conor, just as Kel placed his body between Conor and danger.”
― Cassandra Clare, Sword Catcher

“There has been a Ragpicker King in Castellane for as long as there has been a King on the Hill.”
― Cassandra Clare, Sword Catcher

“Y lo odiaba porque era guapo, era amado y perdonado, hiciera lo que hiciera. Siempre sería deseado. El mundo entero lo deseaba.”
― Cassandra Clare, Sword Catcher

“Then I am cursed," he said, "to think only of you. You, who think I am a loathsome person. A vain monster who could not resist showing off, and in doing so, has made you wretched.”
― Cassandra Clare, Sword Catcher

“No one wants to be a responsibility, Lin thought. They want to be loved.”
― Cassandra Clare, Sword Catcher

“He thought again of Antonetta, all those years ago. She had not wept for lost toys, he thought. She had wept for all the things that were going to change, that she did not want to change.”
― Cassandra Clare, Sword Catcher

“Children make you helpless. You can have all the power one can imagine, and if you cannot keep them safe from themselves and the world, it does not matter.”
― Cassandra Clare, Sword Catcher