Dinastuti

“Close, side by side, from morn till night, Kissing and dalliance their delight, Whilst thou from human solace flying With unrequited love art dying. —Nizami Ganjavi, Layla and Majnun”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold

“Orange is the color of despair, and pumpkins.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold

“Words could betray you if you chose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many. Jokes could be grandly miscalculated, or stories deemed boring, and I’d learned early on that my sense of humor and ideas about what sorts of things were fascinating didn’t exactly overlap with my friends’.”
― Robyn Schneider, The Beginning of Everything

“She loves me all that she can, And her ways to my ways resign; But she was not made for any man, And she never will be all mine. —Edna St. Vincent Millay, “Witch-Wife”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold