Chain of Iron (The Last Hours, #2)

by Cassandra Clare

“You may fear what will happen if you speak your heart. You may wish to hide things because you fear hurting others. But secrets have a way of eating at relationships, Jamie. At love, at friendship—they undermine and destroy them until in the end you find you are bitterly alone with the secrets you kept.”

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“Well, you know what they say,” said James. “All the best men are either married or Silent Brothers.”

“You must give people time, Alastair,” he said. “We are none of us perfect, and no one expects perfection. But when you have hurt people, you must allow them their anger. Otherwise it will only become another thing you have tried to take away.”

“We have talked so much of travel,” James said. “I wanted to give you the world.”

I- …

How do I live in this moment forever, and not let it go?

“It’s never a tragedy to love somebody.”

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

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perhaps tea was the solution to everything.

Facts

the truth is that sorrow is fleet and loyal. It will always follow you.”