iris

“You must stop this," he said. "You will make yourself unworthy by considering yourself unworthy. We become what we are afraid we will be.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Iron

“Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives--or to find strength in a very long one.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“It’s never a tragedy to love somebody.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Iron

“If I must fade,' he said, 'I would like to fade remembering this as my last waking dream.'
'Don't go,' she whispered. 'Hold on, for me. We are so close.'
He touched her cheek. 'Only promise me one thing,' he said. 'If I do go, give us a happy ending, will you? In your book?'
'I don't believe in endings,' she said, but he only smiled at her, and faded slowly from view.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Iron