Better in Black Quotes

“Clary, if tomorrow morning we got crushed to death in a trash compactor, it would still be worth it, for all the time we had. Every minute we spend together is worth a lifetime. And I would always, always choose you.'
She squinted at him suspiciously. 'That's lovely, but--- a trash compactor? Simon and Isabelle made you watch Star Wars again, didn't they?'
'No one makes me do anything,' Jace said, which meant yes.”
― Cassandra Clare, Better in Black

“it was true enough that she could not do up her own dresses without help”
― Cassandra Clare, Better in Black

“Children ask more questions, but they’re also more accepting of answers. They don’t see the absences in the world you paint for them.”
― Cassandra Clare, Better in Black

“She had created a universe—every book is a universe, you know—and that is a sort of magic. Perhaps the most powerful magic that exists.”
― Cassandra Clare, Better in Black

“There was, she admitted, something wonderful about this. Storytelling was a fundamental impulse of humanity, as natural to the mind and body as eating and sleeping and falling in love. It made sense that everyone believed they could do it, because everyone who had ever been comforted by a story, or loved a character, or lived within a world of imagination, held a story world inside them.”
― Cassandra Clare, Better in Black

“At four o’clock all fighting is paused for half an hour for tea and biscuits.”
― Cassandra Clare, Better in Black