Alaa Burghle

“إلا إني رأيت جميع المؤلفين في سَهْوة كتبي قد قيدوا أنفسهم بسلسلة نَفَس من التأليف واحدة. لكنني لا أعلم الآن هل غيّروا أسلوهم أوْ لا. إذ قد مضى عليّ بعد فراقهم أكثر من خمس سنين. فكأنّ العارف بحلقة واحدة من تلك السلسلة قد عرف سائر الحَلَق حتى أنّ كل واحد منهم يصدق عليه أن يسمَّى حلقيّاً. بناء على إنه مشى وراء القوم وحذا حذوهم. فإذ قد تقرر ذلك فاعلم أني قد خرجت من السلسة فما أنا بحلقي ولا بُسَتْيهيّ ولا أكون أمام القوم فإن الثانية أنحس من الأولى. وإنما أنا مستقبل لما استحسنت. آخذ بناصية ما استظرفت. رافض مكلف العادة.”
― أحمد فارس الشدياق

“He gazed amusedly down the table at Tessa. “You’re the shape-changer, aren’t you?” he said. “Magnus Bane told me about you. No mark on you at all, they say.”
Tessa swallowed and looked him straight in the eye. They were discordantly human eyes, ordinary in his extraordinary face. “No. No mark.”
He grinned around his fork. “I do suppose they’ve looked everywhere?”
“I’m sure Will’s tried,” said Jessamine in a bored tone.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“We live and breathe words. It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could never love anyone, never be loved again. It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“I've mastered many thing's in my life. Navigating the streets of London, dancing the quadrille, the Japanese art of flower arranging, lying at charades, concealing a highly intoxicated state, delighting young women with my charms..."
Tessa stared.
"Alas," he went on, "no one has ever actually referred to me as 'the master' or 'the magister', either. More's the pity..."
"Are you highly intoxicated at the moment?”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel