Through Blood, Through Fire Quotes

“It was easier not to feel. It was safer not to love. It was possible to make oneself silent and still as stone, to wall oneself off from the world and its losses, to empty one’s heart. It was possible, but it was not human.”
― Cassandra Clare, Through Blood, Through Fire

“The light winked out. Jem and Tessa were already in motion. In the century and a half they’d known each other, much had changed, but this truth endured: when a Herondale called, they would answer.”
― Cassandra Clare, Through Blood, Through Fire

“But we bear so much that seems unthinkable. The only truly unbearable burden is living without love.”
― Cassandra Clare, Through Blood, Through Fire

“Growing up unafraid of the world is a good way to get destroyed by it”
― Cassandra Clare, Through Blood, Through Fire

“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, Through Blood, Through Fire

“Loss was an inevitability of love, pain the inescapable price of joy. Everyone had to learn this someday—maybe this was what it meant to grow up.”
― Cassandra Clare, Through Blood, Through Fire

“You can never replace what you’ve lost, can you?” Tessa said. “You can only find new love to fill the void left behind.” As always, the memory of Will sat between them, his absence a presence. “We both learned that lesson too young,” Jem said, “but I suppose everyone learns it eventually. Loss is what it means to be human.”
― Cassandra Clare, Through Blood, Through Fire

“Will’s absence had left behind a void that nothing could fill. There was, all these years later, still pain. But the pain was evidence of love, was a reminder of Will”
― Cassandra Clare, Through Blood, Through Fire

“The only truly unbearable burden is living without love.”
― Cassandra Clare, Through Blood, Through Fire

“No one is ever lost to himself.”
― Cassandra Clare, Through Blood, Through Fire

“Tessa..." There were no words to say what he needed to say, that his love for her stretched beyond time, beyond death.”
― Cassandra Clare, Through Blood, Through Fire

“And then Tessa is on a bridge, the Thames beneath her, a miracle beside her. Love reawakened, love returned. Jem, her own true, real, flesh and blood James Carstairs, returned to her from silence and stone, and Tessa, whose heart has remained so full through the years and years of empty days, is finally no longer alone.”
― Cassandra Clare, Through Blood, Through Fire

“Every Herondale was a part of Will, and so a part of her. That was what it meant to be family”
― Cassandra Clare, Through Blood, Through Fire

“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?”
― Cassandra Clare, Through Blood, Through Fire

“Christopher is three. He looks like and unlike his mother, like and unlike his father. He is their love come to life, their two hearts intertwined and given shape and breath”
― Cassandra Clare, Through Blood, Through Fire

“The nappies, the sleepless nights, the endless crying, the love like you’ve never imagined was possible, like your heart is living on the outside of your body? The chaos and the fear and the pride and the chance to tuck someone in and read them to sleep? To do all of that with you? I couldn’t be more sure.”
― Cassandra Clare, Through Blood, Through Fire

“The Law was hard—it was also, so often, lonely.”
― Cassandra Clare, Through Blood, Through Fire

“There were those who believed that because Jem was so kind, so capable of gentleness and generosity, because Jem loved so selflessly, that Jem was weak. There were those who suspected he was not capable of violence or vengeance, who assumed they could hurt Jem and the ones he loved with impunity, because he did not have it in him to strike back. Those who believed this were wrong. Those who acted on it would be sorry.”
― Cassandra Clare, Through Blood, Through Fire

“James Carstairs would always come to the aid of a Herondale. He would never stop repaying the debts of love.”
― Cassandra Clare, Through Blood, Through Fire

“She tells him staying with her would mean giving up his identity, his city, his whole life. He says, "You’re supposed to be smart, but you don’t get it. You are my life. You are my identity. I will not give you up. As for everything else? He shrugs. Who needs it?”
― Cassandra Clare, Through Blood, Through Fire

“Es war einmal ein Junge in einem nicht allzu entfernten Land, der nicht zur Welt hätte kommen dürfen.”
― Cassandra Clare, Through Blood, Through Fire

“It was easier to die protecting the people you loved than to watch them die in your stead. What horrific choices mortality had to offer.”
― Cassandra Clare, Through Blood, Through Fire