Quotes From "Lady Midnight" By Cassandra Clare

There was beauty in the idea of freedom, but it...
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There was beauty in the idea of freedom, but it was an illusion. Every human heart was chained by love. Cassandra Clare
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When you love someone, they become a part of who you are. They're in everything you do. They're in the air you breathe and the water you drink and the blood in your veins. Their touch stays on your skin and their voice stays in your ears and their thoughts stay in your mind. You know their dreams because their nightmares pierce your heart and their good dreams are your dreams too. And you don't think they're perfect, but you know their flaws, the deep-down truth of them, and the shadows of all their secrets, and they don't frighten you away; in fact you love them more for it, because you don't want perfect. You want them. You want–" He broke off then, as if realizing everyone was looking at him again." You want what?" said Dru with enormous eyes." Nothing, " Julian said. "I'm just talking. Cassandra Clare
These pictures are my heart. And if my heart was...
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These pictures are my heart. And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you. Cassandra Clare
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We are bound together, Emma, bound together– I breathe when you breathe, I bleed when you bleed, I’m yours and you’re mine, you’ve always been mine, and I have always, always belonged to you! Cassandra Clare
The world is terrible,
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The world is terrible, " said Mark tonelessly. "And some are drawn down into it and drown there, and some rise above and carry others with them. Cassandra Clare
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Then why are you here?” Emma demanded. “Oh, is this one of those missed-connections things? We met the other night, you felt a spark? Sorry, but I don’t date trees.”“ I am not a tree.” Iarlath looked angry, his bark peeling slightly. Cassandra Clare
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When no one you know tells the truth, you learn to see under the surface. Cassandra Clare
It was hard to live normally when you were constantly...
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It was hard to live normally when you were constantly pretending you didn't see what was going on in front of your face. Cassandra Clare
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You don't want him, " she said to the pink-haired girl. "He has syphilis." The girls stared. "Syphilis?""Five percent of people in America have it, " said Ty helpfully." I do not have syphilis, " Mark said angrily. "There are no sexually transmitted diseases in Faerieland! "”Sorry, " Jules said. "You know how syphilis is. Attacks the brain. Cassandra Clare
Why are you wearing a T-shirt under your other T-shirt?
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Why are you wearing a T-shirt under your other T-shirt?" Livvy asked." In case one of them is stolen, " Marked said, as it were entirely normal. Cassandra Clare
Nobody calls me 'blondie' and keeps their kneecaps.
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Nobody calls me 'blondie' and keeps their kneecaps. Cassandra Clare
I've been thinking of installing a train in my house....
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I've been thinking of installing a train in my house. It could bring me shrimp crackers from the kitchen. Cassandra Clare
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And that someone would pay. Revenge is a cold bedfellow, Diana had said, but Emma didn't believe that. Revenge would let her think about her parents without a cold knot forming in her stomach. She would be able to dream without seeing their drowned faces and hearing their voices cry out for her help. Cassandra Clare
And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch...
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And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you. Cassandra Clare
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The Scholomance was a piece of Shadowhunter history come to life. A cold castle of towers and corridors carved into the side of a mountain in the Carpathians, it had existed for centuries as a place where the most elite of Shadowhunters were trained to deal with the double menaces of demons and Downworlders. It had been closed when the first Accords were signed: a show of faith that Downworlders and Shadowhunters were no longer at war. Cassandra Clare
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I have been in the land of Faerie for years and it is a place where mortal blood is turned to fire. It is a place of beauty and terror beyond what can be imagined here. I have ridden with the Wild Hunt. I have carved a clear path of freedom among the stars and outrun the wind. And no I am asked to walk upon the earth again. Cassandra Clare
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Hello? This is Clary Fairchild.”“Clary? It’s me, Emma.”“Oh, Emma, hi! I haven’t heard from you in ages. My mom says thanks for the wedding flowers, by the way. She wanted to send a note but Luke whisked her away on a honeymoon to Tahiti.”“Tahiti sounds nice.”“ It probably is – Jace, what are you doing with that thing? There is no way it’ll fit.”“ Is this a bad time?”“ What? No! Jace is trying to drag a trebuchet into the training room. Alec, stop helping him.”“ What’s a trebuchet?”“ It’s a huge catapult.”“ What are they going to use it for?”“ I have no idea. Alec, you’re enabling! You’re an enabler! ”“ Maybe it is a bad time.”“ I doubt there’ll be a better one. Is something wrong? Is there anything I can do?”“ I think we have your cat.”“ What?”“ Your cat. Big fuzzy Blue Persian? Always looks angry? Julian says it’s your cat. He says he saw it at the New York Institute. Well, saw him.  It’s a boy cat.”“ Church? You have Church? But I thought – well, we knew he was gone. We thought Brother Zachariah took him. Isabelle was annoyed, but they seemed to know each other. I’ve never seen Church actually likeanyone like that.”“ I don’t know if he likes anyone here. He bit Julian twice. Oh, wait. Julian says he likes Ty. He’s asleep on Ty’s bed.”“ How did you wind up with him?”“ Someone rang our front doorbell. Diana, she’s our tutor, went down to see what it was. Church was in a cage on the front step with a note tied to it. It said  For Emma. This is Church, a longtime friend of the Carstairs. Take care of this cat and he will take care of you. –J.”“Brother Zachariah left you a cat.”“ But I don’t even really know him. And he’s not a Silent Brother any more.”“ You may not know him, but he clearly knows you.”“ What do you think the J stands for?”“ His real name. Look, Emma, if he wants you to have Church, and you want Church, you should keep him.”“ Are you sure? The Lightwoods –“‘They’re both standing here nodding. Well, Alec is partially trapped under a trebuchet, but he seems to be nodding.”“ Jules says we’d like to keep him. We used to have a cat named Oscar, but he died, and, well, Church seems to be good for Ty’s nightmares.”“ Oh, honey. I think, really, he’s Brother Zachariah’s cat. And if he wants you to have him, then you should.”“ Why does Brother Zachariah want to protect me? It’s like he knows me, but I don’t know why he knows me.”“ I don’t exactly know … But I know Tessa. She’s his – well, girlfriend seems not the right word for it. They’ve known each other a long, long time. I have a feeling they’re both watching over you.”“ That’s good. I have a feeling we’re going to need it.”“ Emma – oh my God. The trebuchet just crashed through the floor. I have to go. Call me later.”“ But we can keep the cat?”“ You can keep the cat. Cassandra Clare
Kieran glanced at her with shimmering eyes. Neither looked quite...
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Kieran glanced at her with shimmering eyes. Neither looked quite human: The black eye was too dark, the silver too metallic. And yet the overall effect was haunting, inhumanly beautiful. Cassandra Clare
Love is beautiful.
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Love is beautiful." - Malcolm Fade Cassandra Clare
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He learned that kisses and touches and professions of love could make you forget, and that the more he was with Kieran, the more he wanted to be with him and not with anyone else. Cassandra Clare
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What could you do, when what threatened the ones you loved was something else you loved just as much? Cassandra Clare
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He will choose us, " Julian said. "We are his family." Kieran's eye shone. "I wouldn'tbe so sure, young Shadowhunter. Those of the Hunt are loyal to the Hunt.""He isn't of the Hunt, " Emma said. "He is a Blackthorn. Cassandra Clare
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I don’t know, ” Mark said, looking down at his own long pale fingers tangled in the little boy’s brown curls. “He just — Julian left, and Tavvy fell asleep on my lap.” He sounded amazed, wondering.“ Of course he did, ” Cristina said. “He’s your brother. He trusts you.”“ Nobody trusts a Hunter, ” Mark said. Cassandra Clare
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Power will always attract the greedy and the weak. Cassandra Clare
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Julian had heard stories-whispers really-of other Shadowhunter children who thought or felt differently. Who had trouble focusing. Who claimed letters rearranged themselves on the page when they tried to read them. Who fell prey to dark sadnesses that seemed to have no reason, or fits of energy they couldn't control. Whispers were all there were, though, because the Clave hated to admit that Nephilim like that existed. They were disappeared into the 'dregs' portion of the Academy, trained to stay out of the way of other Shadowhunters. Sent to the far corners of the globe like shameful secrets to be hidden. There were no words to describe Shadowhunters whose minds were shaped differently, no real words to describe differences at all. Because if there were words, Julian thought, there would have to be acknowledgement. And there were things the Clave refused to acknowledge. . Cassandra Clare
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Tell me you love me Emma. Even if you don't mean it."- Julian Blackthorn Cassandra Clare
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As long as there is love and memory, there is no true death, " - John Carstairs Cassandra Clare
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One of us, " said Malcolm, "is worth five hundred of you. I can burn you to the ground in six seconds flat and use the ashes to stuff a teddy bear for my girlfriend. Not that I have a girlfriend at the moment, " he added, "but one lives to hope. Cassandra Clare
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You are all that exists on the earth and under the sky that I do love. - Keiran Cassandra Clare
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Love and hate had their own secret languages, and Mark and Kieran were speaking in them now. Cassandra Clare
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He can touch your soul. And there is a difference between having your heart break and having your soul shatter. Cassandra Clare
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The Fair Folk don't give back what they take. Cassandra Clare
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This cat is looking at me with judgment.”“ He’s not, ” said Jules. “That’s just his face.”“ You look at me the same way, ” Mark said, glancing at Julian. “Judgy face. Cassandra Clare
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He could sleep in the ruins of cities lost for centuries. Cassandra Clare
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There is nothing more important than love. And no law higher." - Malcolm Fade Cassandra Clare
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Wither thou goest, I will go; thy people shall by my people; where thou diest, will I die, and there I be buried. Cassandra Clare
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You’ve got a lot of responsibility now, ” Jace said to Julian. “You’ll have to make sure Emma winds up with a guy who deserves her.” Julian was strangely white-faced. Maybe he was feeling the effects of the ceremony, Emma thought. It had been strong magic; she still felt it sizzling through her blood like champagne bubbles. But Jules looked as if he’d been slapped.“ What about me?” Emma said, quickly. “Don’t I have to make sure Jules winds up with someone who deserves him?”“ Absolutely. I did it for Alec, Alec did it for me – well, actually, he hated Clary at first, but he came around.” “I BET you didn’t like Magnus much, either, ” said Julian, still with the same odd, stiff look on his face.“ Maybe not, ” said Jace, “but I never would have said so.”“ Because it would have hurt Alec’s feelings?” Emma asked.“ No, ” said Jace, “because Magnus would have turned me into a hat rack. . Cassandra Clare
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Is this the girl?” Kieran’s voice was very different: It sounded like waves sliding up the shore. Like warm water under pale light. It was seductive, with an edge of cold. He looked at Emma as if she were a new kind of flower, one he wasn’t sure he liked. “She’s pretty, ” he said. “I didn’t think she’d be pretty. You didn’t mention it.” Iarlath shrugged. “You’ve always been partial to blondes, ” he said.“ Okay, seriously?” Emma snapped her fingers. “I am right here. And I was not aware I was being invited to a game of ‘Who’s the Hottest?'"I wasn’t aware you were invited at all, ” said Kieran. His speech had a casual edge, as if he was used to talking to humans.“ Rude, ” said Emma. Cassandra Clare
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Intentions are nothing Cassandra Clare
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Scrub oak trees. Kieran was leaning against him, pinning him to the tree, and they were kissing. Cristina hesitated a moment, blood rising into her face, but it was clear Mark wasn’t being touched against his will. Mark’s hands were tangled in Kieran’s hair, and he was kissing him as fiercely as if he were starving. Their bodies were pressed together tightly; nevertheless, Kieran clutched at Mark’s waist, his hands moving restlessly, desperately, as if he could pull Mark closer still. They slid up, pushing Mark’s jacket off his shoulders, stroking the skin at the edge of his collar. He made a low keening sound, like a cry of grief, deep in his throat, and broke away. He was staring at Mark, his gaze as hungry as it was hopeless. Never had a faerie looked so human to Cristina as Kieran did then. Mark looked back at him, eyes wide, shining in the moonlight. A shared look of love and longing and terrible sadness. It was too much. It had already been too much: Cristina knew she shouldn’t have been watching them but she hadn’t been able to stop, mingled shock and fascination rooting her to the spot. And desire. There was desire, too. Whether for Mark, or for both of them, or just for the idea of wanting someone so much, she wasn’t sure. She moved back, her heart pounding, about to pull the . Cassandra Clare
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You don't have to do this."" I think I do, " Julian said. "I remember making a vow to that affect."" Whither thou goest, i will go, whatever stupid thing you do, i shall do also'." Emma said. "Was that the vow? Cassandra Clare
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A scientist said once that if the ocean were as clear as the sky, if we could see everything in it, no one would ever go in the sea. Cassandra Clare
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I think everyone is strong and weak in different ways. Cassandra Clare
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Not giving him booze, are you? He's a little young for it. Cassandra Clare
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Christina flashed a smile. "I shall ask a million questions of your purply-eyed so that Diana doesn't think about you and Julian or whether you might be at Mr. Rook's."I'm not sure he's a mister, " Emma said, stifling a yawn. "I've never heard anyone call him anything but 'hey, Rook' or sometimes 'that bastard. Cassandra Clare