Lord of Shadows (The Dark Artifices, #2)

by Cassandra Clare

Fiction is truth, even if it is not fact. If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your brain will live, but your heart will die.”

But you couldn’t speak to fear, couldn’t tell it the truth: Fear lived in your bones.

“We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people because we love them. We fear dying because we value being alive. Don’t wish you didn’t fear anything. All that would mean is that you didn’t feel anything.”

he was lying flat on the bed, like a dropped piece of toast.