Quotes from Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

Power will always attract the greedy and the weak.

When no one you know tells the truth, you learn to see under the surface.

It was hard to live normally when you were constantly pretending you didn't see what was going on in front of your face.

There was beauty in the idea of freedom, but it was an illusion. Every human heart was chained by love.

These pictures are my heart. And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you.

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!

There is nothing more important than love. And no law higher." - Malcolm Fade

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.

He can touch your soul. And there is a difference between having your heart break and having your soul shatter.

Tell me you love me Emma. Even if you don't mean it."-Julian Blackthorn

As long as there is love and memory, there is no true death, " - John Carstairs

Love and hate had their own secret languages, and Mark and Kieran were speaking in them now.

And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you.

Love is beautiful." - Malcolm Fade

What could you do, when what threatened the ones you loved was something else you loved just as much?

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.

Nobody calls me 'blondie' and keeps their kneecaps.

I've been thinking of installing a train in my house. It could bring me shrimp crackers from the kitchen.

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.