k > k's Quotes

“To love one another is to come as close as we ever can to being angels ourselves.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Iron

“I know your heart and you, mine.”
― Masashi Kishimoto

“And in some way, Clary thought, he meant it, meant his gratitude. He had long ago lost the ability to distinguish between force and cooperation, between fear and willingness, between love and torture. And with that realization came a rush of numbness—what was the point of hating Valentine for being a monster when he didn’t even know he was one?”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

“You have to give everyone ugly motives for everything they do, because ugly motives are all you understand.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

“You know how the bonds of family are, my lady... They cling as tightly as vines. And sometimes, like vines, they cling tightly enough to kill.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

“I knew then that I hadn't stopped believing in God. I'd just stopped believing God cared. There might be a God, Clary, and there might not, but I don't think it matters. Either way we're on our own.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“Your life doesn’t have to be perfect for you to be proud. In fact, I think it’s the opposite: the more imperfect your life has been, the prouder you should be, because it means you’ve come that much further, and also probably had a lot more fun along the way.”
― Naya Rivera, Sorry Not Sorry: Dreams, Mistakes, and Growing Up

“Butterflies can't see their wings. They can't see how truly beautiful they are, but everyone else can. People are like that as well.”
― Naya Rivera

“Success is not defined by what the people around you want. It is based on what you want for yourself.”
― Naya Rivera, Sorry Not Sorry: Dreams, Mistakes, and Growing Up

“Where there is love, there is often also hate. They can exist side by side.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“Memories did one no good, not when one knew the truth in the present”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“They say time heals all wounds but that presumes the source of the grief is finite. Over. This is a fresh wound everyday.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“He closed his eyes. “I’m so tired, Tess,” he said. “I only wanted pleasant dreams for once.”
“That is not the way to get them, Will,” she said softly. “You cannot buy or drug or dream your way out of pain.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“Will stared down at his hands. "My whole life wrecked, destroyed..."

"You're seventeen," Magnus said. "You can't have wrecked a life you've barely lived.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“He’s very pretty. For a human.”
“He’s very broken,” said Magnus. “Like a lovely vase that someone has smashed. Only luck and skill can put it back together the way it was before.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“She was as beautiful and awful as a dying season.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels

“But they love each other," Clary said, appalled. "Isn't that what love means? That you're supposed to be there for the other person to turn to, no matter what?"
Luke looked toward the river, at the dark water moving slowly under the light of the autumn moon. "Sometimes, Clary," he said, "love just isn't enough.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels

“But I watch my brothers give their hearts away and I think, Don’t you know better? Hearts are breakable. And I think even when you heal, you’re never what you were before.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels

“Once he had been able to do the same, had been able to inhabit imaginary worlds all the more exciting for being safe. For being fictional.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels

“If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“I believe in good and evil," said Jem. "And I believe the soul is eternal. But I don't believe in the fiery pit, the pitchforks, or endless torment. I do not believe you can threaten people into goodness.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“Sometimes," Jem said, "our lives can change so fast that the change outpaces our minds and hearts. It's those times, I think, when our lives have altered but we still long for the time before everything was altered-- that is when we feel the greatest pain. I can tell you, though, from experience, you grow accustomed to it. You learn to live your new life, and you can't imagine, or even really remember, how things were before.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it.”
― Caitlyn Siehl, Literary Sexts: A Collection of Short & Sexy Love Poems

“Fléctere si néqueo súperos Acheronta movebo - If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

“I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Imagine three days of God gone missing. Now, imagine my lifetime of it.”
― Airea D. Matthews, Simulacra (Volume 111)

“I need a father, I need a mother, I need some old, wiser being to cry to. I talk to God but the sky is empty.”
― Sylvia Plath

“Is there another Life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be, we cannot be created for this sort of suffering.”
― John Keats