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“There was beauty in the idea of freedom, but it was an illusion. Every human heart was chained by love.”
― 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

“Lex malla, lex nulla. A bad law is no law.”
― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

“You’ve got a lot of responsibility now,�� Jace said to Julian. “You’ll have to make sure Emma winds up with a guy who deserves her.��
Julian was strangely white-faced. Maybe he was feeling the effects of the ceremony, Emma thought. It had been strong magic; she still felt it sizzling through her blood like champagne bubbles. But Jules looked as if he’d been slapped.
“What about me?�� Emma said, quickly. “Don’t I have to make sure Jules winds up with someone who deserves him?��
“Absolutely. I did it for Alec, Alec did it for me �� well, actually, he hated Clary at first, but he came around.��
“I BET you didn’t like Magnus much, either,�� said Julian, still with the same odd, stiff look on his face.
“Maybe not,�� said Jace, “but I never would have said so.��
“Because it would have hurt Alec’s feelings?�� Emma asked.
“No,�� said Jace, “because Magnus would have turned me into a hat rack.”
― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

“When no one you know tells the truth, you learn to see under the surface.”
― 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

“How long have you been drawing me?��
He sighted. A moment later his hand came to rest in her hair. His fingers twined in the strands. “My whole life.”
― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

“This cat is looking at me with judgment.”“He’s not,�� said Jules. “That’s just his face.”“You look at me the same way,�� Mark said, glancing at Julian. “Judgy face.”
― 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.”
― 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

“Keep this and perhaps remember me."
Kieran's hands tightened on the arrowhead, his knuckles whitening. "The stars will go out before I forget you, Mark Blackthorn.”
― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

“The stars will go out before I forget you, Mark Blackthorn.”
― Cassandra Clare

“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

“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

“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. You want-”
― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

“Sometimes she thought the only things she had faith in were revenge and Julian.”
― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

“But Julian's blood was different. When she saw it she thought of him, shot and crumpling, the way his blood had run like water through her fingers. It was the first time in years that she'd actually thought he might die, that she might lose him. She knew what people said about parabatai, knew that it was meant to be a loss as profound as that of a spouse or a sibling. Emma had lost her parents; she had thought she knew what loss was, was prepared for it. But nothing had prepared her for the feeling that the idea of losing Jules wrenched out of her: that sky would go dark forever, that there would never be solid ground again.”
― 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

“No matter what happens," Mark said, "I will stay here. I will always, always stay here."
He put his arms around Julian and held him tightly. Julian exhaled, as if he were letting go of something heavy that he had carried for a long time, and leaning on Mark's shoulder, he let his older brother bear just a little of his weight.”
― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

“Mark nearly fell forward, and threw his arms around Julian. Julian barely managed to catch himself before almost falling over. Mark was whipcord thin, but strong, his hands fisting in Julian's shirt. Julian could feel Mark's heart hammering, feel the sharp bones under his skin. He smelled like earth and mildew and grass and nighttime air. "Julian," Mark said, muffled, his body shaking. "Julian, my brother, my brother." Julian sighed. He wanted to relax into his older brother, let Mark hold him up the way he once had. But Mark was slighter than he was, fragile under his hands. He would be holding Mark up from now on. It was not what he had imagined, dreamed of, but it was the reality. It was his brother. He tightened his hands on Mark and adjusted his heart to bear the new burden.”
― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

“Their closeness wouldn't break, but it would bend and stretch into a new shape.”
― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

“Jules she said impulsively. " can I stay?" It was there code, the short version of the longer request; stay and make me forget my nightmares. stay and sleep next to me. Stay and chase the bad dreams away, the memories of blood, of dead parents, of endarkened warriors with eyes like dead black coals, it was a request they'd both made, more than once.
-Cassandra Clare - lady midnight”
― 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

“She remembered what Jem, the ex-Silent Brother who'd helped preside over her parabatai ceremony, had said about what Julian was to her, that there was an expression for it in his native Chinese, zhi yin.
"The one who understands your music."
Emma couldn't play a note on any instrument , but Julian understood her music.”
― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

“Oh, if we could end love just by willing it, life would be very different!' Tessa laughed. 'It's easier to end someone else's love for you than kill your love for them. Convince them that you don't love them, or that you are someone they cannot respect —ideally both.' Her eyes were wide and gray and youthful, it was hard to believe she was older than nineteen. 'To change your own heart, that's nearly impossible.”
― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

“If she kissed him, would he taste like blood or cloves or a mixture of the two? Sweet and spicy? Bitter and hot?”
― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

“She'd heard of people having butterflies in their stomaches, and she knew what they meant. That flapping, uneasy feeling deep in your gut. But she had it now everywhere. Butterflies under all of her skin, fluttering, sending shivers that moved in waves up and down her body.”
― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

“Because when someone-shoots you with an arrow-"he gasped, "your immediate response is not 'Thanks for the arrow, I think I'll keep it for a while.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Dark Artifices, The Bane Chronicles, Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy & Ghosts of the Shadow Market 6 Books Collection Set

“He could ride through the skies over glaciers, through the treetops of forests no human being knew existed. He could sleep in the ruins of cities lost for centuries.”
― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

“Irony is the unexpected outcome of an expected situation.”
― Cassandra Clare