The Land I Lost Quotes

“Anyone who says women are weak is afraid they’re too strong.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Land I Lost

“Uncle Jace says we will kill all the demins,” he reported with joy. “All the demins!”
“Well, have you considered that your uncle Jace is a hurtful person?” said the demon. “Always rudely stabbing everyone, and sarcastic.”
Max scowled. “Love Uncle Jace. Hate demins.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Land I Lost

“Alec tugged at the front of Max’s sailor suit. “That’s a lot of ribbons there, buddy.” Max nodded sadly. “Too much ribbons.” “What happened to your sweater?” “That’s a fine question, Alexander. Allow me to unfold to you the tale. Max rolled his sweater in the cat litter,” Magnus related. “So he could ‘look like Daddy.’ Thus he must wear the sailor suit of shame. I don’t make the rules. Oh, wait, yes, I do.” He waved a reproving finger at Max, who laughed again and tried to grab for the glitter of rings.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Land I Lost

“Lily lit up. “Do I want to come on a bro road trip with you, rushing to the aid of gorgeous damsel in distress, Jem I’d-love-to-climb-’em Carstairs?”
― Cassandra Clare, The Land I Lost

“My true love has my heart, and I have his. Never was a fairer bargain made.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Land I Lost

“To Alec, love always
meant this: his shining city of eternal light. The land of lost dreams
reclaimed, his first kiss and his last.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Land I Lost

“Alec waited. He’d heard kids
say terrible things before now. Adults poured poison in their minds, and
then it came out of their mouths.
Lily laughed.
“He said,” Lily reported with unholy joy, “‘What is that cool man doing
with you?”
― Cassandra Clare, The Land I Lost

“It reminded him of the first day he’d ever touched Magnus, drawn close to and kissed another man, someone even taller than he was, his body lean
and lithe and right against Alec’s. At the time, he’d thought he felt dizzy with relief and joy because he was finally touching someone he wanted to be touched by, when he’d thought he might never have that. Now he thought he’d felt that way because it was Magnus: that even then, he’d known. Now
the gesture spoke of all the days since the first.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Land I Lost

“If my words comforted you, we are even,” he said. “Your voice is the music I love best in all the world.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Land I Lost

“When he was gone, when he was dust and ashes, Magnus would still be
walking through this world. If the world was changed for the better, then
that unknowable future would be better for Magnus. Alec could imagine
that on some scorching hot day like this, on a strange street in a strange
land, Magnus might see something good that reminded him of Alec,
some way that the world was changed because Alec had lived. Alec
couldn’t imagine what the world would be like then.
But he could imagine, in some faraway future, the face he loved best.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Land I Lost

“Max himself was sitting on the rug, wearing a sailor suit with elaborate navy ribbons to match his hair, tightly embracing Chairman Meow.
“You are my meow friend,” he told the Chairman solemnly, squeezing him.
“Meow,” Chairman Meow protested. He’d lived a life of torment since Max learned to walk.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Land I Lost

“Alec crossed the floor to where Magnus stood considering the whiteboard. Carefully, since Magnus was still holding a bubbling jar, Alec slid his arms around Magnus’s waist, linking his hands together over the embossed buckle of Magnus’s belt. The T-shirt Magnus was wearing had a dramatic scoop neckline, so Alec put his face down in the smooth bare expanse of skin and breathed in the smell of sandalwood and spell ingredients.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Land I Lost

“I used to walk in here and have to fight for my life as the place fell down around me,” Jace mused. “Now it’s all velvet cushions and insistent offers of immortal beauty.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Land I Lost

“Don’t let me see you, and then have to go away into the loneliness that is the
world without you. Please, please keep me. I’ll be good, if you would just keep
me.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Land I Lost

“Magnus raised an eyebrow. “Ease up,” he suggested to the pentagram. “It’s like someone loaned overly enthusiastic kids a dry-ice machine for their high-school production of Demon Oklahoma! in here.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Land I Lost

“No bed!” he argued. “Stay up. Be with Rafe.” He sidled up to a stunned looking Rafael and gave him a big hug. “I’m love him.”
Rafe hesitated, then hugged Max shyly back. The sight of them made Alec’s chest hurt. He cast a glance back at Magnus, who had an equally smitten expression.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Land I Lost

“The most powerful warlock I’ve ever seen?” Alec snarled. “She cut through your wards like tissue paper. And my man would eat you for breakfast.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Land I Lost

“You have to walk differently on roofs,” Alec told him. He took Rafael’s hands in his, showing him how. “Like this, because they slope. Do it like me.”

It was oddly nice, to teach a child these things. He’d had all sorts of plans to teach his little brother, when he got older, but his baby brother hadn’t lived to be older.

“When will you give your parents a real grandchild?” he’d heard Irina Cartwright ask Isabelle after a Clave meeting.

“By the Angel,” said Isabelle. “Is Max imaginary?”

Irina paused, then laughed. “A Shadowhunter child, to teach our ways. Nobody would give those people a Shadowhunter child. Imagine a warlock around one of our little ones! And that kind of behavior. Children are so impressionable. It wouldn’t be right.”

Isabelle went for her whip. Alec dragged his sister back.

“You Lightwood kids are out of control and out of your minds,” muttered Irina.

Jace had appeared beside Alec and Isabelle, and given Irina a radiant smile. “Yes, we are.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Land I Lost

“You can address her when you’re talking about her,” said Alec, mildly.
Joaquín cast an anxious look at Alec, then an even more anxious look at
Lily. “Of course! I’m sorry. I don’t have much experience talking to—”
“Vampires?” asked Lily sweetly.
“Women,” said Joaquín.
“It’s true I’m five fabulous foot of pure woman,” Lily mused.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Land I Lost

“Immortals. We're used to seeing each other off and on through the centuries. Years go by, then someone's back and it's just the way it was before. Because we stay the same, though the world doesn't. When someone dies, it takes us a while to process. You think to yourself: I wonder when I'll see him again. Then you remember, and it's a shock every time. You have to keep reminding yourself, until you believe it: I'll never see him again.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Land I Lost

“Blood is not love, but it offers a chance for love.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Land I Lost

“Alec didn’t recognize the woman, but he recognized that tone of voice.
He knew how it was to lay claim to what you loved, a§ the more
insistently because people doubted the love that belonged to you. Alec
wasn’t sure what to say, so he did one of his favorite things. He produced
his phone and found a rea§y good picture, walked up to the dais, and
showed it to them both.
“›is is my son, Max.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Land I Lost

“Shadowhunters get very set on things,” said Lily. “Very set. Do you
enjoy intensely serious romantic commitment?”
“I don’t know his name,” Juliette pointed out.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Land I Lost

“Well,” she said. “I was happy for fiffty-five years. That’s more than
most people get. Now there’s the clan to look after, like Raphael would’ve
wanted. The night we knew he was gone, and every night since, I watch
my vampires in the home he guarded. I watch the mundanes in the
streets he loved. Every one of them looks like a child I should help, a
possibility for a future I wasn’t able to imagine. Every one of them seems
precious, worth defending, worth the world. Every one of them is
Raphael.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Land I Lost

“Now he was older, and he knew how complicated the world could be. It still hurt like an unexpected blow when he saw that shining ideal tarnished. If he were in charge of it all-”
― Cassandra Clare, The Land I Lost

“Lily shook her head. “The 1930s were such a disappointment. Every year, they insisted on not being the 1920s.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Land I Lost

“My James knew the power of a love story, as well as I do," said Tessa. "No matter how dark and hopeless the world seemed, Lucie could always find beauty in a story.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Land I Lost

“Juliette set her jaw and strode across the green-quartz floor to Joaquín’s side. She tapped one of the men fighting him on the shoulder. When he turned, she ripped out his throat with one clawed hand.

“Maybe take them alive!” said Alec. “Not that guy, obviously.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Land I Lost

“And I was at that party in Venice,” Juliette continued.

“When the mansion collapsed.” “I was there too!” said Lily. “Raphael was super sad to be at a party; it was hilarious. I made out with so many people, it was a personal record. I think one of them was a hot blonde! Was it you?”

Juliette blinked. “Er, no. I don’t really . . . make out with girls.”

Lily shrugged. “Sorry you’re wasting your life.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Land I Lost

“He left to take up his post, and as he went
he said ‘Sleep, Lily. I’§ watch the doors.’ I never slept peacefully before
that night. I didn’t know how to rest, and trust I was safe. I slept that day
as I’d never slept before.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Land I Lost