Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.
Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.
The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he’d learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.
That’s why when major badasses greet each other in movies, they don’t say anything, they just nod. The nod means, ‘I’ am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass,? but they don’t say anything because they’re Wolverine and Magneto and it would mess up their vibe to explain.
Even in half demon hunter clothes, Clary thought, he looked like the kind of boy who’d come over your house to pick you up for a date and be polite to your parents and nice to your pets. Jace on the other hand, looked like the kind of boy who’d come over your house and burn it down just for kicks.
I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you.
So you’re a Shadowhunter,? Nate said. ‘De Quincey told me that you lot were monsters.’ ‘Was that before or after he tried to eat you?’ Will inquired.