Ghosts of the Shadow Market Quotes

“Kit straightened up. “Nope, I’m good. Come on Brother Hauntingly Attractive.”
“There’s no need to mention this to Tessa.”
“And Yet,” said Kit, “I’m gonna.”
― Cassandra Clare, Ghosts of the Shadow Market

“Kit’s jaw was still set. Jem knew that look. Herondales were always flames, he thought. They loved and suffered as if they would burn away with the sheer force of their own fire.”
― Cassandra Clare, Ghosts of the Shadow Market

“A secret too long kept can kill a soul by inches. I watched a secret almost destroy a man once, the finest man ever made. Such a secret is like keeping treasure in a tomb. Little by little, poison eats away at the gold. By the time the door is opened, there may be nothing left but dust.”
― Cassandra Clare, Ghosts of the Shadow Market

“Memories were like love: wound and cure, both at once.”
― Cassandra Clare, Ghosts of the Shadow Market

“Every world contains worlds within it. People wander through all the worlds they can find, searching for their homes.”
― Cassandra Clare, Ghosts of the Shadow Market

“You choose to be yourself, your best self. You can be descended from gods and monsters. You can take the light they left you and be a lamp shining out all their light made new. You can battle the darkness. You can choose always to fight and hope. That is what it means to have a great heart. Don’t be afraid of being yourself.”
― Cassandra Clare, Ghosts of the Shadow Market

“He longed sometimes with an almost physical ache just to say 'My Husband' and have it be true.”
― Cassandra Clare, Ghosts of the Shadow Market

“Saw that movie,' said Kit.
'Read that book,' Tessa shot back.”
― Cassandra Clare, Ghosts of the Shadow Market

“Jem said, “we want you to stay, and to know that the choice is entirely yours, and we wanted to show you something. We want you to know there is nothing in this house more precious to us than you.”
― Cassandra Clare, Ghosts of the Shadow Market

“I sometimes think there is nothing more painful than love denied. To love someone you cannot have, to stand beside your heart's desire and be unable to take them in your arms. A love that cannot be requited. I can think of nothing more painful than that.”
― Cassandra Clare, Ghosts of the Shadow Market

“The trousers and jacket do not make me a man, and the necklace does not make me a woman. They are only what makes me feel beautiful and powerful in this moment. I am exactly as I choose to be.”
― Cassandra Clare, Ghosts of the Shadow Market

“I’ve never been enough, not for anyone, and I’m trying, but I don’t know if I ever will be.”
― Cassandra Clare, Ghosts of the Shadow Market

“The night was very beautiful and warm, and they were both young.”
― Cassandra Clare, Ghosts of the Shadow Market

“There are a lot of hot Shadowhunters," said Elliot. "That's the point of them, isn't it?”
No,” said Alec. "We fight demons.”
"Oh,” said Elliot. "Right.”
― Cassandra Clare, Ghosts of the Shadow Market

“When you fight, you should fight with your whole heart.”
― Cassandra Clare, Ghosts of the Shadow Market

“He took her in his arms then, imagining the life growing inside of her and the future they would have together, a family, more love to fill the absences left by those they'd lost, more love than either of them had ever imagined still possible. The future was so precarious, shadowed by a looming danger neither of them fully understood, and Jem wondered what kind of world his child would be born into. He thought of all the blood that had been shed these last few years, the growing sense among the Shadowhunters he knew that something dark was rising, that this Cold Peace after the war might be only the eerie calm at the eye of the hurricane, those still, silent moments in which it was possible to deceive yourself into imagining the worst was over. He and Tessa have been alive too long to deceive themselves, and he thought about what might happen to a child born at the eye of such a storm. He thought about Tessa, her will and her strength, her refusal to let loss after loss harden her against love, her refusal to hide any longer from the brutality of the mortal world, her determination to fight, to hold on. She too had been a child born of storms, he thought, as had he, as had Will. All three had risen in love through their struggles to find happiness - and without the struggle, would the happiness have been so great? He closed his eyes and pressed a kiss to Tessa's hair. Behind his lids, he did not see darkness but the light of a London morning and Will there, smiling at him. "A new soul made of you and Tessa," Will said. "I can hardly wait to meet such a paragon." "Do you see him too?" Tessa whispered. "I see him," Jem said, and he held her even more tightly against him, the new life they had created together between them.”
― Cassandra Clare, Ghosts of the Shadow Market

“Bless you, my Herondales," said Matthew grandly, scrambling up from the floor and making Lucie his bow. "I come upon an urgent errand. Tell me- be honest!- what do you think of my waistcoat?"
Lucie dimpled. "Devastating."
"What Lucie said," James agreed peacefully.
"Not fantastic?" Matthew asked. "Not positively stunning?"
"I suppose I am stunned," said James. "But am I positively stunned?”
― Cassandra Clare, Ghosts of the Shadow Market

“No, said Jem, becuase he was always James Carstairs when he spoke of what was dearest to him.”
― Cassandra Clare, Ghosts of the Shadow Market

“That the future isn’t fixed. If we see a path in front of us that we would not choose, then we can choose another path. Another future.”
― Cassandra Clare, Ghosts of the Shadow Market

“Jem stood up and held out his hand to Will. Without realizing it, he held his breath. Perhaps this was a dream after all, and when Jem touched him Will would vanish away again. But Will’s hand was warm and solid and strong, and Jem drew him up easily. Together they began to run lightly over the tiles of the roof.
The night was very beautiful and warm, and they were both young.”
― Cassandra Clare, Ghosts of the Shadow Market

“I hope they're all right", Alec said quietly to Lily when Jem and Tessa went off to prepare for their midnight visit to the warlock's house.
"Of course Tessa's fine", said Lily. "You do realize she gets to go to the Jem-nasium anytime she wants?"
"I'm never talking to you again if those names don't stop".”
― Cassandra Clare, Ghosts of the Shadow Market

“Life is not a boat, beating us far away in a cruel, relentless tide from all we love. You are not lost to me on some forever distant shore. Life is a wheel.”
― Cassandra Clare, Ghosts of the Shadow Market

“I’m a straightforward person. I’m going to knock on the door.”
― Cassandra Clare, Ghosts of the Shadow Market

“Jace didn't just pull the pigtails of people he had crushes on. He pulled the pigtails of everyone in the world he liked. This was something Simon still had not figured out over the years.”
― Cassandra Clare, Ghosts of the Shadow Market

“And where there was life, there was hope. Maybe not now, not yet, but someday, they could still have their future.”
― Cassandra Clare, Ghosts of the Shadow Market

“Anna noticed many people taking in the sight of her in her men's clothing and nodding appreciaticely. The men seemed pleased or amused, the women either admiring or- interested. Quite a few raked Anna boldly with their eyes, their gazes clinging to the feminine body revealed by her fitted clothes. It was as if in casting off dresses she had cast off society's expectation of a woman's modesty and could allow herself to be admired, desired. Her soul soared with new confidence: she felt herself a gorgeous creature, neither a gentleman nor a lady. A gentlewoman, she thought.”
― Cassandra Clare, Ghosts of the Shadow Market

“He’d heard kids say terrible things before now. Adults poured poison in their minds, and then it came out of their mouths.”
― Cassandra Clare, Ghosts of the Shadow Market

“No matter how dark and hopeless the world seemed, Lucie could always find beauty in a story.”
― Cassandra Clare, Ghosts of the Shadow Market

“I don’t like most people,” Lily said helpfully. “But I do love murder!”
― Cassandra Clare, Ghosts of the Shadow Market

“All I did was think about being worthy of coming home to you.”
― Cassandra Clare, Ghosts of the Shadow Market