Surely she had endured enough for one evening without having to listen to intelligent conversation?
The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
People are not always very tolerant of the tears which they themselves have provoked.
Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable. Why did it take him being whipped within an inch of his life to see it?
...but of these things I must not now speak. I will tell only of the lone tomb in the darkest of the hillside thickets...
Clary saw him take Mark's hand; he pressed his witchlight into the boy's palm, where it flickered, and then resumed its steady glow. 'Take this with you,' said Jace, 'for it can be dark in the land under the hill, and the years very long.
Oh, God,” Magnus said. “They’re dead. They’re all dead.
The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the position of having to console them. Since I'm the person going in to be slaughtered, this is somewhat annoying.
As soon as jealousy is discovered, it is regarded by the person who is its object as a challenge which justifies deception.
I was woken by a shell-burst in the trench of sleep. Heart skipping, with eyes fighting light, my thoughts sprang up like a field of starlings startled by a farmer's gunshot, a thousand separate, autonomous specks that swirled into a single united bl...
But I consoled myself with the reflexion that in spite of everything she was for me the real point of intersection between reality and dream.
Spend the years of learning squandering Courage for the years of wandering Through a world politely turning From the loutishness of learning.
Endurance: It is the spirit which can bear things, not simply with resignation, but with blazing hope. It is the quality which keeps a man on his feet with his face to the wind. It is the virtue which can transmute the hardest trial into glory becaus...
In the sea of my emotions, his presence is like a pearl in the oyster. Very hard to locate, yet very precious and still beautiful.
Whenever it rains, I remember him, not as a tear that hails down as a raindrop, but as a God of fertility. As, every time I remember him, his memories conceive a baby of emotions in me!
I discovered something attractive about uncertainty. It was the knowledge that God was in control and that I was depending on him every moment.
Know what being a man's pet means. And if you're ever lucky enough to find yourself with the choice, choose the pasture.
She treated Vanessa and me as if we were visiting budgerigars that needed to be fed and then put somewhere dark for the night.
Never judge someone by their relatives.
You beg fate to make your fears into reality, Aleran. But for the moment, they are only fears. They may come. If so, then face them and overcome them. Until then, pay them no mind. You have enough to think on.
The way Magnus’ breath had sounded, rattling in his chest, before he’d said his father’s name.
