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“Because that’s how friends behave or because that’s what you do for someone you’re fond of.” (Chain of Iron Quotes)
Cassandra Clare
Chain of Iron
“Believe me when I say that there are few places more scandalous than the Ruelle, and none I could take you to and expect James to forgive me,” said Matthew. “Corrupting one’s parabatai’s bride is not considered sporting.”
Cassandra Clare
Chain of Iron
“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence an d make it a soul?” —John Keats, Letters
Cassandra Clare
Chain of Iron
“For love is strong as death,” said Matthew, placing the second stele in James’s hand. His tone was uncharacteristically somber.“And jealousy cruel as the grave.”
Cassandra Clare
Chain of Iron
“He’ll come back in his own time. At the worst possible moment, if I know him.”
Cassandra Clare
Chain of Iron
“I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled.”
Cassandra Clare
Chain of Iron
“If sometimes, on the steps of a palace, on the green grass of a gully, in the mournful solitu de of your bed chamber, you wake up, the intoxication d iminished or dispelled, ask the wind, a wave, a star, a bird, a c lock, all that flees, all that moans, all that turns, all tha t sings, all that speaks, ask what time it is; and the wind, the wav e, the star, the bird, the clock will answer you: “It is tim e to become intoxicated! To not be the martyred slave of Time, be intoxicated; be unceasingly intoxicated! With wine, with poetry, with virtue, as you wish.” —Charles Baudelaire, “Enivrez-vous”
Cassandra Clare
Chain of Iron
“It was cold, so cold; he gripped the man’s brown coat with one hand, driving the knife in with the other.”
Cassandra Clare
Chain of Iron
“It was too much to bear, the cruelty of death and the cruelty of her own mind.”
Cassandra Clare
Chain of Iron
“May this marriage be a sign of compassion, a seal of happiness here and hereafter. May this marriage have a fair face and a good name, an omen as welcome as the moon in a clear blue sky.” —Rumi, “This Marriage”
Cassandra Clare
Chain of Iron
“My heart would hear her and beat, were it earth in an earthy bed.”
Cassandra Clare
Chain of Iron
“Some would consider that kind of magic evil. But I call it necessary.”
Cassandra Clare
Chain of Iron
“The mermaid had human legs. They were long and really quite shapely, James had to admit, loosely draped in diaphanous skirts made of woven exotic seaweeds.”
Cassandra Clare
Chain of Iron
“The only gift worthy of my daughter is the gift worthy of the sword that has chosen her.”
Cassandra Clare
Chain of Iron
“There is no scar. A rune can be used up, leaving only a phantom of itself behind, but it cannot vanish from one’s skin entirely once it has been drawn.”
Cassandra Clare
Chain of Iron
“There was a long, painful pause, during which Cordelia wondered whether it was possible to die of humiliation.”
Cassandra Clare
Chain of Iron
“When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, “Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.” But I was one-and-twenty, No use to talk to me. —A. E. Housman
Cassandra Clare
Chain of Iron
