Chain of Iron (The Last Hours, #2)

by Cassandra Clare

“There is an old saying.” Charlotte’s voice had gone very quiet. “First a man takes a drink, then the drink takes the man.”

“Because,” Ariadne said, “when you want something very much, you are willing to accept the shadow of that thing. Even if it is just a shadow.”

“That love is complicated,” said Cordelia. “That it lies beside anger and hatred, because only those we truly love can truly disappoint us.”