If you run into a psychic wall face-first, do you wind up with psychic bruises? -Clary, pg.239-
Cassandra ClareHow strange to have the power to literally transform yourself into other people, and yet be so unable to put yourself in their place.
Cassandra ClareHe began it,โ Cecily said, jerking her chin at Will, though she knew it was pointless. Jem, Willโs parabatai, treated her with the distant sweet kindness reserved for the little sisters of oneโs friends, but he would always side with Will. Kindly, but firmly, he put Will above everything else in the world. Well, nearly everything.
Cassandra ClareClockwork Prince pg. 298 "Though rather despite myself, I thought him a pretty bit of poison to start with, but I have come around. There is a soul under all that bravado. And he is really alive, one of the most alive people I have ever met. When he feels something, it is as bright and sharp as lightning.
Cassandra Clare