Anja

“Dear Alastair,
why are you so stupid
I brush my teeth
don't tell anyone
—Thomas”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Thorns

“I'm not walking out into a world that will kill me before my time.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“We are not here just to forget, but also to remember there are good and beautiful things in the world, always. And mistakes do not take them from us; nothing takes them from us. They are eternal.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Thorns

“Grief, Cordelia would realize during that night and the next day, was like drowning. Sometimes one would surface from the dark water: a period of brief lucidity and calmness, during which ordinary tasks might be accomplished. During which one's behavior was, presumably, normal, and it was possible to hold a conversation.

The rest of the time, one was pulled deep below the water. There was no lucidity, only panic and terror, only her mind screaming incoherently, only the sensation of dying. Of not being able to breathe.

She would remember the time later as flashes of light in the dark, moments when she surfaced, when the making of memories was possible, if incomplete.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Thorns