Every Exquisite Thing Quotes

“I have always known you, my love," Cecily said. "You are the gem of my heart. My firstborn. My Anna.”
― Cassandra Clare, Every Exquisite Thing

“I do not have to be only one thing.”
― Cassandra Clare, Every Exquisite Thing

“My grandfather was a worm.”
― Cassandra Clare, Every Exquisite Thing

“I do not have to be only one thing, Anna thought. I can choose what suits me when it suits me. 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. I am a Shadowhunter who wears gorgeous suits and a legendary pendant.”
― Cassandra Clare, Every Exquisite Thing

“It was only on the way home that Anna realised that Ariadne had asked her to the library and not shown her a single book”
― Cassandra Clare, Every Exquisite Thing

“It is a delicate thing, training, despite the obvious violence, of course."
"You will have to be delicate with me, then," Ariadne said, very softly.”
― Cassandra Clare, Every Exquisite Thing

“She blushed and looked down, and Anna's heart skipped a beat. It wasn't possible, she told herself. There was simply no chance that the Inquisitor's beautiful daughter was … like her”
― Cassandra Clare, Every Exquisite Thing

“He would have given anything to be with the one he loved.”
― Cassandra Clare, Every Exquisite Thing

“They are only what makes me feel beautiful and powerful in this moment. I am exactly as I choose to be”
― Cassandra Clare, Every Exquisite Thing

“Even where laws are unjust, hearts can find a way to be together.”
― Cassandra Clare, Every Exquisite Thing

“He loved them all too much to say no.”
― Cassandra Clare, Every Exquisite Thing

“All the younger set were fearfully bookish. Anna put it down to Uncle Will and Aunt Tessa’s influence. They seldom let one leave the Institute without a book they felt one simply must read.”
― Cassandra Clare, Every Exquisite Thing

“Anna, with a show of supreme self-control, did not immediately fall to the floor. She managed to say yes, the library, yes, she would love to see it, yes, library, yes, yes...”
― Cassandra Clare, Every Exquisite Thing

“Maybe she was ill. Maybe she had developed a fever from looking at Ariadne.”
― Cassandra Clare, Every Exquisite Thing

“Someday, the lady would not be imaginary. The clothes would not be borrowed and ill-fitting. Someday she would stride down the street and women would fall at her feet (not failing to notice the perfectly polished brogues) and men would tip their hats to a lady-killer more accomplished than they.”
― Cassandra Clare, Every Exquisite Thing

“I do not think love can be wrong.”
― Cassandra Clare, Every Exquisite Thing

“She was a Shadowhunter. She would take the blow. She would harden herself and laugh in the face of pain.”
― Cassandra Clare, Every Exquisite Thing