Lady Midnight (The Dark Artifices, #1)

by Cassandra Clare

“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...

And if there were two things he believed were limitless, it was love and imagination.

“Women are fiercer by far than men.”

“I don’t know where I belong,” he said. “But if you let me, I will try to belong here.”

Heroes aren’t always the ones who win. They’re the ones who lose, sometimes. But they keep fighting, they keep coming back. They don’t give up. That’s what makes them heroes.