Cathy Jean

“He grinned. It was a wicked grin, the kind that made the blood in Clary's veins run a little faster. "You want to go on a date?"
Caught off guard, she stammered. "A wh-what?"
"A date," Jace repeated. "Often 'a boring thing you have to memorize in history class,' but in this case, 'an offering of an evening of blisteringly white-hot romance with yours truly."
"Really?" Clary was not sure what to make of this. "Blisteringly white-hot?"
"It's me," said Jace. "Watching me play Scrabble is enough to make most women swoon. Imagine if I actually put in some effort.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Lost Souls

“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“Even in the Future the Story Begins with Once Upon a Time.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cinder

“When God allows something to be taken from you, He replaces it with something better.”
― Janette Oke, A Searching Heart