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“A gentle boy with a gentle soul, but every soul contains its own opposite, and the opposite of gentleness was ruthlessness—the beautiful wreckage of mercy.” (Lady Midnight Quotes)
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“A scientist said once that if the ocean were as clear as the sky, if we could see everything in it, no one would ever go in the sea.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“And I love you,” Kieran said. “You are all that exists on the earth and under the sky that I do love.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“And if there were two things he believed were limitless, it was love and imagination.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“As long as there is love and memory, there is no true death.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“Being told that love is forbidden does not kill love. It strengthens it.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“Emma thought of Julian, sitting here, in this office. Year after year, from the time he was twelve and all scraped elbows and torn jeans. He would sit patiently with pen and ink, writing his letter to the Clave, petitioning them to let his sister Helen come home from Wrangel Island.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“Everyone is more than one thing,” said Kieran. “We are more than single actions we undertake, whether they be good or evil.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“Faeries believed in promises over fidelity of body or heart.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“For years I have had no mirror; I have learned to make do. The eyes of another can be a mirror more effective than water. If you will look at me, I can see my reflection in yours”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“He can touch your soul. And there is a difference between having your heart break and having your soul shatter.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“He hadn’t wanted to leave Emma, but at the same time he’d thought it would help. Like an addict getting away from the source of his addiction.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“He knew in the way that she was a part of him, the way her breathing was his breathing, and her dreams were his dreams, and her blood was his blood, and when her heart stopped he knew that his would too, and he would be glad, because he wouldn’t want to live one second in a world that didn’t have her in it.” (Lady Midnight Quotes)
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“He was beautiful. The most beautiful thing she’d ever seen. She wanted to crawl inside his skin, live where he breathed.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“Heros aren’t always the ones who win. They’re the ones who lose, sometimes. But they keep fighting, they keep coming back. They don’t give up. That’s what makes them heroes.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“I don’t know where I belong,” he said, “But if you let me, I will try to belong here.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“I have been in the land of Faerie for years and it is a place where mortal blood is turned to fire. It is a place of beauty and terror beyond what can be imagined here. I have ridden with the Wild Hunt. I have carved a clear path of freedom among the stars and outrun the wind. And no I am asked to walk upon the earth again.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“I read once that explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog,” Mark said. “You find out how it works, but the frog dies in the process.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“I was pondering the Greek ideals of love. Agape, of course, the highest love, the love that Gods feel. Then eros, romantic love; and philia, the love of friends; and storge, the love of family.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“I would take them in a bowl,” said Mark with a winning gaze. “It has been many years since I have eaten freely at my choice, fair one, and a plate of strawberries is all that I desire.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“If she kissed him, would he taste like blood or cloves or a mixture of the two?”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“In the dark and the shadows where secrets lived, that was where Julian survived. It was how he had managed for years.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“It was a sort of love few other people could understand. It was total and it was overwhelming and it could be cruel.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“It was hard to live normally when you were constantly pretending you didn’t see what was going on in front of your face.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“It’s easier to end someone else’s love for you than kill your love for them.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“I’ve been thinking of installing a train in my house. It could bring me shrimp crackers from the kitchen.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“Julian wanted to laugh too. He wished he could. He wished he could forget the darkness that flickered at the edge of his vision. He wished he could close his eyes and fall, forgetting for one moment that there was no net stretched out below to catch him.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“Laws are meaningless, child. There is nothing more important than love. And no law higher.” (Lady Midnight Quotes)
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“Life is short, and wisdom long to learn.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“Love and hate had their own secret languages, and Mark and Kieran were speaking in them now.”
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“Love is the weakness of human beings.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“Love means you see someone.”…”Their touch stay on your skin and their voice stays in your ears and their thoughts stay in your min.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“Mark whirled on them. His eyes were blind, unseeing. “You bring the twins in front of me and you kill them over and over. My Ty, he doesn’t understand why I can’t save him. You bring me Dru and when she laughs to see the fairytale castle, all ringed round with hedges, you throw her against the thorns until their pierce her small body. And you bid me wash in Octavian’s blood for the blood of an innocent child is magic under the Hill.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“No one is ever the villain of their own story.”
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Lady Midnight
“People are more than one thing. Warlocks, no less. I would not even hesitate to say that Malcolm once did much good, before he did evil. It is one of the great lessons of growing up, learning that people can do both.”
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Lady Midnight
“Shadowhunters lived through scars. Sometimes he thought they lived for them.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“She had wondered, when he’d looked into her eyes and said that he’d had to learn to make do without mirrors in the Wild Hunt, whose eyes he’d been looking into for all those years. Who’d been his mirror.
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“She soared above the ground, and he kept her tethered to the earth. Without him she would be lost among the clouds.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“Sometimes she thought the only things she had faith in were revenge and Julian.”
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Lady Midnight
“Sometimes, she thought, it was as if she were a kite, and Julian the flier: She soared above the ground, and he kept her tethered to the earth. Without him she would be lost among the clouds.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“The eyes of another can be a mirror more effective than water. If you will look at me, I can see my reflection in yours.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“The rules are the rules for a reason. Being a Shadowhunter, a good one, is about more than just training fourteen hours a day and knowing sixty-five ways of killing a man with salad tongs.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“The sea wears down cliffs, Emma, and turns them into sand; so love wears us down and breaks our defences. You only do not know how much it means, to have people who will fight for you when it goes wrong.”
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Lady Midnight
“The things I want are wrong and broken things to want.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“The world is terrible,” said Mark tonelessly. “And some are drawn down into it and drown there, and some rise above and carry others with them.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“Their closeness wouldn’t break, but it would bend and stretch into a new shape.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“There was beauty in the idea of freedom, but it was an illusion. Every human heart was chained by love.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“There was dancing to wear your feet down, and there were beautiful boys and girls, and kisses were cheaper than wine but the wine was sweet and the fruit sweeter. And you could still hear the music in your head.” (Lady Midnight Quotes)
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“These pictures are my heart. And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“This was what people fought wars over, she thought, and killed each other over, and destroyed their lives for: this nerve-shredding mixture of longing and pleasure.”
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Lady Midnight
“Threatening the High Warlock. Better and better. Maybe we should head down to vampire clan headquarters and punch Anselm Nightshade in the face.”
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Lady Midnight
“We all find out the people who are supposed to take care of us are human eventually. That they make mistakes.”
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Lady Midnight
“We are bound together, Emma, bound together- I breathe when you breathe, I bleed when you bleed, I’m yours and you’re mine, you’ve always been mine, and I have always, always belonged to you!”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“We both see the same world, but in a different way. Ty feels the same joy I do, the joy of creation. We feel all the same things, only the shapes of our feelings are different.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“When no one you know tells the truth, you learn to see under the surface.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“When you love someone, they become a part of who you are. They’re in everything you do. They’re in the air you breathe and the water you drink and the blood in your veins. Their touch stays on your skin and their voice stays in your ears and their thoughts stay in your mind. You know their dreams because their nightmares pierce your heart and their good dreams are your dreams too. And you don’t think they’re perfect, but you know their flaws, the deep-down truth of them, and the shadows of all their secrets, and they don’t frighten you away; in fact you love them more for it, because you don’t want perfect. You want them.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“Why all these paintings of you? Because I’m an artist, Emma. These pictures are my heart. And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“Why are you wearing a T-shirt under your other T-shirt?” Livvy asked. “In case one of them is stolen,” Marked said, as it were entirely normal.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“You are all that exists on the earth and under the sky that I do love.”
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Lady Midnight
“You are the two halves of a whole. You must be different, like light and shadow- he brings you caution to temper your recklessness, and you bring him recklessness to temper his caution. Without each other you would not function as well as you do. That is what parabatai means.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“You belong where you’re loved.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“You see things that nobody else sees. You can’t talk about it because no one will understand. You have to keep secrets, and secrets- they break you apart. Cut you open. Make you vulnerable.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
