Karen

“No more fantasies, no more dreams. He knew then that none of the illusions he’d tried to fool himself with had ever even come close. Every detail had been wrong, everything in the world had been wrong, and everything about himself.”
― Cassandra Clare, Ghosts of the Shadow Market

“James had never imagined that the hardest thing he would ever do in his life was nothing at all.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Iron

“Because, when you want something very much, you are willing to accept the shadow of that thing. Even if it is just a shadow.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Iron

“If I must fade,' he said, 'I would like to fade remembering this as my last waking dream.'
'Don't go,' she whispered. 'Hold on, for me. We are so close.'
He touched her cheek. 'Only promise me one thing,' he said. 'If I do go, give us a happy ending, will you? In your book?'
'I don't believe in endings,' she said, but he only smiled at her, and faded slowly from view.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Iron