Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.
Cassandra Clare in The Infernal Devices"One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us."
BooksCassandra Clare in The Infernal DevicesOne does not question miracles, or complain that they are not constructed perfectly to one's liking.
MiraclesCassandra Clare in The Infernal DevicesIt is not easy to be different, and even less so to be unique.
CharacterCassandra Clare in The Infernal DevicesLife is full of risks. Death is much simpler.
Cassandra Clare in The Infernal DevicesWhen you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does.
Lies, Men, Taking action, TalkingCassandra Clare in The Infernal DevicesIf no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?
Life, Friendship, Solitude & Being AloneCassandra Clare in The Infernal DevicesIt's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.
Falling in loveCassandra Clare in The Infernal Devices"Jesus!" Luke exclaimed.
"Actually, it's just me," said Simon. "Although I've been told the resemblance is startling."
Will looked horrified. "What kind of monster could possibly hate chocolate?"
ChocolateCassandra Clare in The Infernal DevicesOnly the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.
Poesie, Books, FoolishnessCassandra Clare in The Infernal DevicesThere are so many worse things than death. Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse.
Love, DeathCassandra Clare in The Infernal DevicesEvery meeting led to a parting, and so it would, as long as life was mortal. In every meeting there was some of the sorrow of parting, but in everything parting there was some of the joy of meeting as well.
Life, Breakup, Farewell & Goodbye, BeginningCassandra Clare in The Infernal DevicesI thought perhaps that when you told me you did not love me that my own feelings would fall away and atrophy, but they have not. They have grown every day. I love you now more desperately, this moment, than I have ever loved you before, and in an hour I will love you more than that.
Cassandra Clare in The Infernal DevicesNo one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily.
DeathCassandra Clare in The Infernal DevicesIt has been the privilege and the honor of my life to know you.
Cassandra Clare in The Infernal Devices