A.B.G.

“A secret too long kept can kill a soul by inches. I watched a secret almost destroy a man once, the finest man ever made. Such a secret is like keeping treasure in a tomb. Little by little, poison eats away at the gold. By the time the door is opened, there may be nothing left but dust.”
― Cassandra Clare, Ghosts of the Shadow Market

“It was easier not to feel. It was safer not to love. It was possible to make oneself silent and still as stone, to wall oneself off from the world and its losses, to empty one’s heart. It was possible, but it was not human.”
― Cassandra Clare, Through Blood, Through Fire

“Feeling is what makes us human. Even the most difficult feelings. Perhaps especially those. Love, loss, longing—this is what it means to be truly alive.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Wicked Ones

“It was easier to die protecting the people you loved than to watch them die in your stead. What horrific choices mortality had to offer.”
― Cassandra Clare, Through Blood, Through Fire