Not everyone has the training to use every tool, and a weapon you don’t know how to wield is wasted.
Sometimes, someone you have known all your life becomes no longer familiar to you, but strange in a marvelous way, as if you have discovered a beach you have been visiting all your life is made not of sand but of diamonds, and they blind you with their beauty. -Malcom Fade, Lord of Shadows.
Shaking his head, Jace regarded the heavens as if they were about to open up and reveal the secrets of the universe. “With everything that’s going on, you’re worried about Weasel Face?
You’d be happy to leave him if it weren’t for her,” Isabelle said, managing to inject the single syllable word with enough venom to poison an elephant.
As happens in times of despair for the noble and true – so, never for me – an angel came.
And bearing the Mortal Sword, even for such a short time, had forged an indelible bond in his mind between truth and pain.
He was starting to worry that there weren’t any good guys. Just people with longer or shorter Evil Overlord lists.
Then, yes,” she said. “Yes, I will marry you, James Carstairs. Yes.” “Oh, thank God,” he said, exhaling. “Thank God.
She understood him, laughed when he laughed, saw through the defenses he put up to what was underneath. There was no Jace Wayland more real than the one he saw in her eyes when she looked at him.
Will’s madness had always been like Hamlet’s, half play and half wildness, and all driving toward a certain end.
Haven’t you ever heard that modesty is an attractive trait?” “Only from ugly people,” Jace confided.
You are Brother Zachariah, and my Jem. You are a Silent Brother. That does not mean you are not dear to me as you always were, and you always will be. Do you think anything could separate us? Is either of us so weak as that? After all, we have seen and all we have done? I spend every day grateful that you exist and are in the world. And as long as you live, we keep Will alive.
I do not have to be only one thing, Anna thought. I can choose what suits me when it suits me. The trousers and jacket do not make me a man, and the necklace does not make me a woman. They are only what makes me feel beautiful and powerful in this moment. I am exactly as I choose to be. I am a Shadowhunter who wears gorgeous suits and a legendary pendant.
This is so weird,” said Simon. “I keep expecting the truck to start sinking.” “I can’t believe you just went through what we went through and you think this is weird,” said Jace, but.
Captain America is definitely the most handsome Avenger,′ said Cristina. ‘But I like the Hulk. I would like to heal his broken heart.’ ‘We’re Nephilim,’ said Julian. ‘We’re not even supposed to know about the Avengers. Besides,’ he added, ‘Iron Man is obviously the best-looking.
She seemed a drift of fragile ash or snow, something impermanent that had blown into his arms accidentally: the petal of a faerie flower, the white feather of an angel’s wing.
You villains and your creepy eugenics programs are starting to bore me.
The only truly unbearable burden is living without love.
Your chance to be great... those moments come for all of us.
Idris is fine. Great, even. But this is where we live.