Julia

“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

“So-called common sense relies on programmed nonperception, concealment, or ridicule of everything that doesn’t fit into the conventional”
― Stanisław Lem, The Investigation

“We have talked so much of travel," James said. "I wanted to give you the world.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Iron

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