Heroes endure because we need them. Not for their own sake.
Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck.
That’s right,” said Simon. “Just remember, when your mother’s gnawing my ankle like a furious mama bear separated from her cub, I did it for you.” -Simon to Clary.
You’ll never understand us from reading a book, Will had said, but that wasn’t the point really. He didn’t know what books meant to her, that books were symbols of truth and meaning, that this one acknowledged that she existed and that there were others like her in the world.
For all my life,” he said, “when someone has said the work ‘beautiful’, it is your face I have seen. You are my own very definition of beautiful, Tessa.
Nephilim – we do tend to love very overwhelmingly. To fall in love only once, to die of grief over love – my old tutor used to say that the hearts of Nephilim were like the hearts of angels: They felt every human pain, and never healed.
As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.
Everything that happens to you matters to me.
I screwed her over. I didn’t want to see her screwed over by someone else.
People who know and love the same books as you, have the road map to your soul.
Too much of anything could destroy you, Simon thought. Too much darkness could kill, but too much light could blind.
I was the quiet kid in the corner, reading a book. In elementary school, I read so much and so often during class that I was actually forbidden from reading books during school hours by my teachers.
She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all?
I really love fantasy. I have to say it is my favourite genre to read and one of the genres I love the most to write.
I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass.
I’ll just have them change the entry in the demonology textbook from ‘almost extinct’ to ‘not extinct enough for Alec. He prefers his monsters really, really extinct.’ Will that make you happy?
I get a lot of inspiration from Japanese manga, especially shoujo which tends to have elaborate and fantastical adventure plots.
My rapier wit hides my inner pain.
If there’s a thing I’ve learned in my life it’s to not be afraid of the responsibility that comes with caring for other people. What we do for love: those things endure. Even if the people you do them for don’t.
I would write light entertainment nonfiction pieces during the day, then come home and work on my fantasy fiction. It was very difficult to get out of the one mindset and into another one.