What you said was true. we don't live or love in a vacuum. There are people around us who care about us who would be hurt, maybe destroyed if we let ourselves feel what we might want to feel.
Cassandra ClareWould you?โ said Gabriel to Will, hotly. โIf it was your family?โ His lip curled. โNever mind. Itโs not as if you know the meaning of loyalty โโ โGabriel.โ Gideonโs voice was a reprimand to his brother. โDo not speak to Will in that manner.
Cassandra ClareMagnus had been alive hundreds of years himself, and yet the simplest things could turn a day into a jewel, and a succession of days into a glittering chain that went on and on. Here was the simplest thing: a pretty girl liked him, and the day shone.
Cassandra ClareEveryone knows that quote because of the Doors." Jace looked at her blankly. "The Doors. They were a band." "If you say so," he said. "I suppose you don't have much time for enjoying music," Clary said, thinking of Simon, for whom music was his entire life, "in your line of work." He shrugged. "Maybe the occasional wailing chorus of the damned.
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