Alanah

“At those times when I thought it'd be safer for everyone if I was ... gone... all I had do was feel the ink thrumming under my skin. Feel the reminder of what had been taken from me. And I knew I couldn't do that to someone else, couldn't put anyone I cared about through that kind of pain.”
― Lynette Noni, We Three Heroes

“A magic spell can always be undone by another spell. I will not have the truth of myself be something that can be dissolved by a stray enchantment or passing through the wrong magical gate.”
― Cassandra Clare, Lord of Shadows

“She gave me words, which I'd never had, as a gift. It was the first time I heard the word 'transgender'. I broke into tears. I had never realised before how much you can take from someone by not allowing them the words that needed to describe themselves. How can you know there are other people like you, when you've never had a name to call yourself?”
― Cassandra Clare, Lord of Shadows

“But there's a difference between revenge and vengeance. Between punishing the guilty, and punishing at random.”
― Cassandra Clare, Lord of Shadows