I'm tired of watching you be in love with someone else someone who will never love you back, not the way I do.
Cassandra ClareSo youโre suggesting we take the train up to York, meet a ninety-year-old man, leap on him, and yank out his hair? Iโm sure the Clave will be ecstatic.โ โTheyโll just say youโre mad,โ said Jessamine. โThey already think it, so whatโs the difference, really?
Cassandra ClareI rather wonder what I am doing here. I enjoy city life, you know. The glittering lights, the constant companionship, the liquid entertainment. The lack of sudden monkeys.
Cassandra ClareWill's face turned grave. "Be careful with it, though. It's six hundred years old and the only copy of its kind. Losing or damaging it is punishable by death under the Law." Tessa thrust the book away from her as if it were on fire. "You can't be serious." "You're right. I'm not." Will leapt down from the ladder and landed lightly in front of her. "You do believe everything I say, though, don't you? Do I seem unusually trustworthy to you, or are you just a naive sort?
Cassandra ClareI always thought love made you stupid. Made you weak. A bad Shadowhunter. 'To love is to destroy.'I believed that[...]I used to think being a good warrior meant not caring,[...] And then I met you. You were a mundane. Weak. Not a fighter. Never trained[...] Love didn't make you weak, it made you stronger than anyone I'd ever met. And I realized I was the one who was weak.
Cassandra Clare