Quotes of: Mexico-city Keyword

I blame Chennai. Pointless neighbourhood gossip travels faster than tsunami alerts around here. I know that aunties are a universal problem but this city is particularly aunty dominated. And by that, I mean, even many of our twenty-somethings act lik...

Sophie Says

It is well that there are palaces of peace And discipline and dreaming and desire, Lest we forget our heritage and cease The Spirit’s work—to hunger and aspire: Lest we forget that we were born divine, Now tangled in red battle’s animal net, Mu...

C.S. Lewis

Miette: One? [One grunts] Miette: You asleep? [One breathes deeply and mumbles] Miette: What did you do before? One: One sailor. Harpooned Whales. One night [pauses] One: One hear whales singing. After [gestures throwing of harpoon] One: always alway...

The City of Lost Children

It is necessary to find one's own way in New York. New York City is not hospitable. She is very big and she has no heart. She is not charming. She is not sympathetic. She is rushed and noisy and unkempt, a hard, ambitious, irresolute place, not very ...

Love

Today, specific travel attitudes and methodologies are as carefully calibrated as attire worn on a first date. Which is absurd. It's absurd when it means visiting only the most famous cities and landmarks, strictly hewing to the instructions of the l...

Love

Sergei doesn’t yearn for love…he thirsts for domination, and now he has finally achieved it.

City of Lights: The Trials and Triumphs of Ilyse Charpentier

You know Jace Lightwood?" said Emma. "I-- What?" "He's famous," Emma said with obvious amazement. He's the best Shadowhunter. The best.

City of Heavenly Fire

Clary curled up on the ground seeing in front of her not the shell of a destroyed town but the eyes of the brother and the sister that she would never have.

City of Heavenly Fire

Every time I think I'm missing a piece of me, you give it back.

City of Heavenly Fire

The way Magnus’ breath had sounded, rattling in his chest, before he’d said his father’s name.

City of Heavenly Fire

I think they’ll probably put that on my gravestone. ‘He Was Heterosexual and Had Low Expectations.

City of Heavenly Fire

Is there any reason you wish to preserve amity with the Shadowhunters, besides the fact that one of them is your lover?

City of Heavenly Fire

I see that even as the world plunges into darkness and peril, you two stand around discussing your love lives. Teenagers.

City of Heavenly Fire

Mothers,lock up your daughters, then lock up your maidservants, then lock up yourselves. Lord Montgomery is on the prowl

City of Heavenly Fire

Everyone gets the time they get together, and no more. Maybe we're not so different that way.

City of Heavenly Fire

People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.

City of Glass

Aline!" Isabelle looked appalled. "You can't just go around asking people what it's like to be a vampire.

City of Glass

But can one actually see beauty with eyes blurred by the lack of almost everything a human being needs?

City of God

Magnus's eyes gleamed. "He seems to like you. I saw him going for your hand out there like a squirrel diving for a peanut.

City of Glass

Just like an alley in New York -like every alley in the world, apparently- it smelled like cat pee.

City of Glass

From the first time I saw you, I've belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me. -Jace

City of Glass