Quotes From "Lord Of Shadows" By Cassandra Clare

..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.. Diamonds might be blinding in their beauty, but they were also the hardest and sharpest gems in the world. They could cut you or grind you down, smash and slice you apart. Malcolm, deranged with love, had not thought of that. But Julian could think of nothing else. Cassandra Clare

He picked up the sketchbook, turning it so she could see his work - a gorgeous rendition of a stone bridge they'd passed, surrounded by the drooping boughs of oak trees." You could sketch me, " said Emma. She flung herself down onto her seat, leaning her head on her hand. "Draw me like one of your french girls. Cassandra Clare

[Kieran]his head propped on a stack of poetry books he’d brought from the library. Almost all of them had been inscribed on the inside cover by a James Herondale, who had neatly written out his favorite lines. Cassandra Clare

Everyone is afraid of something. We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people because we love them. We fear dying because we value being alive. Don't wish you didn't fear anything. All that would mean is that you didn't feel anything. Cassandra Clare

Emma, everyone's afraid of something. We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people because we love them. We fear dying because we value being alive. Don't wish you didn't fear anything. All that would mean is that you didn't feel anything. Cassandra Clare

Truth is to be found in dreams, ” the King said, looking down at them. From this angle, Emma could see that odd splitting of his face ended at his throat, which was ordinary skin. “Tell me, Shadowhunters: you enter a cave. Inside the cave is and egg, lit from within and glowing. You know that it beats with you dreams-not the ones you have during the day, but the ones you half-remember in the morning. It splits open. What emerges?” “A rose, ” said Mark. “With thorns.” Cristina cut her eyes toward him in surprise but remained motionless. “An angel, ” she said. “With bloody hands.” “A knife, ” said Emma. “Pure and clean.” “Bars, ” Julian said quietly. “The bars of a prison cell. Cassandra Clare

We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people because we love them. We fear dying because we value being alive. Don't wish you didn't fear anything. All that would mean is that you didn't feel anything. - Julian Blackthorn Cassandra Clare

We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people because we love them. We fear dying because we value being alive. Don't wish you didn't fear anything. All that would mean is that you didn't feel anything." - Julian Blackthorn Cassandra Clare

There's something about a place you've been with someone you love. It takes on a meaning in your mind. It becomes more than a place. It becomes a distillation of what you felt for each other. The moments you spend in a place with someone... they become part of its bricks and mortar. Part of its soul. Cassandra Clare

There is truth in stories. There is truth in one of your paintings, boy, or in a sunset or a couplet from Homer. Fiction is truth, even if it is not fact. If you believe only facts and forget stories, your brain will live, but your heart will die. Cassandra Clare

If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your beain will live, but your heart will die Cassandra Clare

Your pretense does not fool me, gnome. My eye will be upon you. Cassandra Clare

Fiction is truth, even if it is not a fact. If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your brain will live, but your heart will die. Cassandra Clare

Break my heart, he said. "Break it in pieces. I give you my permission. Cassandra Clare

It is unusual, ” said Cristina, “for a revolution to call for fewer rights for people, not more. Cassandra Clare