Chelsi

“He'd been wrong about her, had seen her as some timid woodland creature who might skitter too close to him if she wasn't careful, and get caught in his snare if he wasn't even more careful than her, but in fact she was simply kind. Nothing so benign as nice or pleasant, but kind. There was nothing soft or gentle about that trait in a world that specialized in crushing it.”
― Alyssa Cole, A Prince on Paper

“You're the only person I've ever loved like this, and I know you're the only person I ever will. And I'm not myself without you, Emma. Once you dissolve dye in water, you can't take it back out. It's like that. I can't take you out of me. It means cutting out my heart, and I don't like myself without my heart, I know that now.”
― Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness

“Some lights were never meant to burn for long.”
― Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness

“The sky was a road and the stars made pathways; the moon was a watchtower, a lighthouse that led you home.”
― Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness