You have to give everyone ugly motives for everything they do, because ugly motives are all you understand.
Cassandra ClareAnd he understands. He understands why people hold hands: heโd always thought it was about possessiveness, saying This is mine. But itโs about maintaining contact. It is about speaking without words. It is about I want you with me and donโt go.
Cassandra ClareWhen I am in the darkness, I want to think of it in the light, with you," he said, and straightened, and turned to walk toward the door. The parchment robes of the Silent Brothers moved around him as he moved, and Tessa watched him, paralyzed, every pulse of her heart beating out the words she could not say: Good-bye. Good-bye. Good-bye.
Cassandra Clare