Lilly #2 > Lilly #2's Quotes

“So I’m your first ever Shadowhunter, huh?" Alec said when they separated at last.
"You’re my first so many things, Alec Lightwood," Magnus said.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“The sea wears down cliffs, Emma, and turns them into sand; so love wears us down and breaks our defenses.”
― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

“This is what it meant to be family, he thought. To hurt when someone else hurt. To want to protect them.”
― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

“Because we can better ourselves. Should we give in to our impulses to kill or hurt any who anger us? To take whatever we want from those are weaker and in general to disregard the feelings of others? We are made imperfect and must guard against our flaws lest they destroy us.”
― Christopher Paolini

“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.”
― A.A. Milne

“The people that mind don't matter, and the people that matter don't mind.”
― -Dr. Seuss

“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“I've got a stele we can use. Who wants to do me?"
"A regrettable choice of words," muttered Magnus.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

“Suicide isn't the only way you can lose someone to depression.”
― Adib Khorram, Darius the Great Is Not Okay

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska