Saving Raphael Santiago Quotes

“Love did not overcome everything. Love did not always endure. All you had could be taken away, love could be the last thing you had, and then love could be taken too.”
― Cassandra Clare, Saving Raphael Santiago

“How many times have I told you, Magnus? Behave professionaly in a professional setting. Which means no being rude to Nephilim, and also no getting attached to Nephilim."
"I never get attached to Nephilim!" Magnus protested.
Ragnor coughed, and in the midst of the cough said something that sounded like "blerondale."
"Well," said Magnus. "Hardly ever.”
― Cassandra Clare, Saving Raphael Santiago

“Magnus had often thought of getting a pet, but he had never considered acquiring a sullen teenage vampire. Once Raphael was gone, he thought, he was getting a cat. And he would always throw his cat a birthday party.”
― Cassandra Clare, Saving Raphael Santiago

“What if everything you believe is wrong and you could still be loved and still be forgiven?”
― Cassandra Clare, Saving Raphael Santiago

“Go to faeries for gossip about vampires, to werewolves for gossip about faeries, and do not gossip about werewolves, because they try to bite your face off: that was Magnus's motto.”
― Cassandra Clare, Saving Raphael Santiago

“Los vampiros," she whispered.
"Oh God, not the bloody vampires again," said Magnus. "No pun intended.”
― Cassandra Clare, Saving Raphael Santiago

“I see you're trying to distract me from the real point here," Magnus said instead. "You had a birthday - a perfect excuse for me to throw one of my famous parties - and you didn't even tell me about it?”
― Cassandra Clare, Saving Raphael Santiago

“Nothing happened. You will go tuck yourself up in your bed and remember nothing. Do not go wandering in these areas at night. You will meet unsavory men and bloodsucking fiends," Raphael told the girl, his eyes on hers, unwavering. "And go to church."
"Do you think your calling might be telling everyone in the world what to do?" Magnus asked as they were walking home.
Raphael regarded him sourly. He had such a sweet face, Magnus thought -the face of an innocent angel, and the soul of the crankiest person in the entire world.
"You should never wear that hat again."
"My point exactly," said Magnus.”
― Cassandra Clare, Saving Raphael Santiago

“They had met at a club fifteen years before, Etta and Magnus. He had convinced her to dance with him, and she said she had been in love by the end of the song. He told her he had been in love before the beginning.”
― Cassandra Clare, Saving Raphael Santiago

“Magnus hoped if he ever went mad like that himself, so mad that he poisoned the very air round him and hurt everyone he came into contact with, that there would be someone ho loved him enough to stop him. To kill him, if it came to that.”
― Cassandra Clare, Saving Raphael Santiago

“I think you're fairly strong," said Magnus. "And you have quite a lot of self-control. Look how you sternly repress all the hero worship you are longing to show me that you feel."
"It is sometimes an exercise of real self-control not to laugh in your face," Raphael said gravely. "That much is true.”
― Cassandra Clare, Saving Raphael Santiago

“Magnus held on to the boy, newborn in grave dirt and blood, and he wished that he had found him dead.”
― Cassandra Clare, Saving Raphael Santiago

“The Nephilim - the bogeyman for monsters, and all those who could be monsters.”
― Cassandra Clare, Saving Raphael Santiago

“When the fey were worried, it was time to panic.”
― Cassandra Clare, Saving Raphael Santiago

“Oh no, Raphael, please don't leave me," Magnus said in a monotone. "Where would I be without the light of your sweet smile? If you go, I will throw myself upon the ground and weep."
"Will you?" asked Raphael, raising one thin eyebrow. "Because if you do, I will stay and watch the show.”
― Cassandra Clare, Saving Raphael Santiago

“He held her close enough to kiss, close enough to whisper the most important secrets in the world, and he spoke to her as he would have wanted some good angel to speak to his family, to his own shivering young soul, long ago and in a land far away.”
― Cassandra Clare, Saving Raphael Santiago

“El hambre agudiza el ingenio,” said Raphael.

Hunger sharpens the wit.

“Good proverb,” said Magnus. “However, like most proverbs, it sounds wise and yet does not actually clarify anything.”
― Cassandra Clare, Saving Raphael Santiago

“No" he murmured."No, I didn't. You know him better than anyone else ever has or every will. You made him, you taught him to be all he is, and you know him down to his bones. You know how strong he is. You know how much he loves you. If I gave you anything, give me your faith now. Teach one thing to all your children. I have never told you anything more true than this. Believe this, if you believe nothing else. Raphael saved himself”
― Cassandra Clare, Saving Raphael Santiago

“Magnus did not like to go near the Hotel Dumont if he could help it. It was decrepit and unsettling, it held bad memories, and it also occasionally held his evil former lady love.”
― Cassandra Clare, Saving Raphael Santiago

“Well done?" echoed the vampire boy. "Bravely done? I'm just getting started.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Saving Raphael Santiago

“Love did not overcome everything. Love did not always endure. All you had could be taken away, love could be the last thing you had, and then love could be taken too. Magnus knew, though, how love could be a last hope and a star to steer by. Light that went out had still shone once.”
― Cassandra Clare, Saving Raphael Santiago

“Love did not overcome everything. Love did not always endure. All you had could be taken away, love could be the last thing you had, and then love could be taken too.
Magnus knew, though, how love could be a last hope and a star to steer by. Light that went out had still shone once.”
― Cassandra Clare, Saving Raphael Santiago