Sometimes the newly Marked go into shock. The good news is, if this happens to you, you are unlikely to notice, because you will be in shock.
Clary: “Aren’t they supposed to be hiring someone else to train me full-time anyway?”
Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know of, and use them to embellish and define characters.
So I lied to you last night. I said I just wanted one night with you. But I want every night with you. And that’s why I have to slip out of your window now, like a coward. Because if I had to tell you this yo your face, I couldn’t make myself go.
You know men. We have delicate egos.
Heroes aren’t always the ones who win. They’re the ones who lose, sometimes. But they keep fighting, they keep coming back. They don’t give up. That’s what makes them heroes.
Weapons, when they break and are mended, can be stronger at the mended places. Perhaps hearts are the same.
Perfect heroines, like perfect heroes, aren’t relatable, and if you can’t put yourself in the protagonist’s shoes, not only will they not inspire you, but the book will be pretty boring.
We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.
I’m not a man. I have no male pride for you to trick me with, and I am not interested in single combat. That is entirely a weakness of your sex, not mine. I am a woman. I will use any weapon and all weapons to get what I want.
You’re a reader as well as a writer, so write what you’d want to read.
I hate ducks. Don’t know why. I just always have.
It is a far greater thing that I do now, than I’ve ever done before.
Books will always be there for you.
All things tend toward entropy. The whole universe is moving outward, the stars pulling away from one another, God knows what falling through the cracks between them.
You cannot hide your true self forever.
Sharp are the arrows of a broken heart.
City of Fallen Angels ended on a cliffhanger. That was equally loved and hated by my readership.
My grandfather was a movie producer, and so I grew up on movie sets.
I have specific playlists for different books and characters. So, I need to have those with me. It helps me get into the mindset of the book.