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“Alec’s eyes glittered for a moment, bright blue under coal-black lashes. He stood up and came over to where Clary was standing by the door. “Wise girl,” he said.

“You didn’t always think I was wise.”

“No, I thought you were a pest, but I know better now.” He dropped a kiss on top of her head and went out the door, still carrying his tulip.”
― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

“He;s really happy,” Rebecca said. “With his life, with Isabelle. And that’s all thanks to you.” She leaned forward and spoke in a conspiratorial whisper. “When you and Simon first got to be friends and he brought you home from school, my mom said to me: ‘That girl is going to bring magic into his life.’ And you did.”
― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

“Each of our lives is a Shakespearean drama raised to the thousandth degree.”
― Anna Akhmatova

“I wish, Rune,” Poppy said, causing me to glance up, “I wish that people
realized how this felt every day. Why does it take a life ending to learn how to
cherish each day? Why must we wait until we run out of time to start to
accomplish all that we dreamed, when once we had all the time in the world?
Why don’t we look at the person we love the most like it’s the last time we will
ever see them? Because if we did, life would be so vibrant. Life would be so
truly and completely lived.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses