Addison

“Beauty could tear at your heart like teeth, she thought, but she did not love James because he was beautiful: he was beautiful to her because she loved him.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold

“Cordelia had thought a tattoo would be rather more like their Marks, but it reminded her of something else instead. It was ink, the way books and poems were made of ink, telling a permanent story.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold

“I wonder sometimes if it is easier to be brave when one is young, before one knows truly how much there is to lose.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold

“How much is love meant to hurt?" he had asked his father once.

"Oh, terribly," his father had said with a smile. "But we suffer for love because love it worth it.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold