Chain of Iron (The Last Hours, #2)

by Cassandra Clare

“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.”

“First a man takes a drink, then the drink takes the man.”

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

“My father used to tell me that sometimes you cannot reconcile with someone else. Sometimes you have to find that reconciliation on your own. Someone who broke your heart is often not the person who can mend it.”

“it is not enough for others to love you.

sometimes I think that it is much harder to lose someone who we are on bad terms with than it is to lose someone with whom all is well.”

“You will make yourself unworthy by considering yourself unworthy. We become what we are afraid we will be,

But love is not always a lightning bolt, is it? Sometimes it is a creeping vine. It grows slowly until suddenly it is all that there is in the world.”

looking away from truth helped nothing.