Quotes About Risk

I wonder sometimes if it is easier to be brave when one is young, before one knows truly how much there is to lose.

Better to love and fear than feel nothing

No," Jace agreed. "We don't fly. We break and enter.

Life is full of risks. Death is much simpler.

Sometimes you don't have to search out danger, sometimes danger finds you

This is probably a bad idea," Jace said. "Like, a record-breakingly bad idea. Like a go-down-in-history bad idea. But—" Clary bounced to her feet. "What he means is, we're in," she said. "We love bad ideas." "That's true," Jace admitted, a smile breaking over his face. Suddenly he looked seventeen again.

Well, at least you know it works this time," she said, getting on behind him. "If we crash into the parking lot of a Key Food, I'll kill you, you know that?" "Don't be ridiculous," said Jace. "There are no parking lots on the Upper East Side. Why drive when you can get your groceries delivered?

I don't care about risk to me," he hissed, leaning forward across the table. "I care about what happens to you! Dammit, I'm practically indestructible. Let me go. You stay behind." "Yes," Clary said, "Jace won't find that odd at all. You can just tell him you've always been secretly in love with him and you can't stand being parted.

I can't get enough adventure," Magnus said lightly. "And adventure cannot get enough of me.

I dont know," said Simon, "it doesn't sound so bad to me. I'd rather have someone mess around inside my head than chop it off." "Then you're a bigger idiot than you look.

Jace, on the other hand, looked like the sort of boy who'd come over to your house and burn it down for kicks.

Life was an uncertain thing.

Hell," he said. "Just when it was getting interesting, too." And he leaped into the water after his friend.

Mundanes who involve themselves in things they know nothing about are likely to meet unpleasant endings.

Of course you realize you're leaving me in the position of being the one tell everyone - your mother, Luke, Alec, Izzy, Magnus...' 'I guess I shouldn't have said there wouldn't be no risk to you,' Clary said meekly. '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.

If I held a revolver to your head, James, and pulled the trigger, would it really matter if I did not know that there were not bullets in the chambers?

Do people ever climb the demon towers? Like, for any reason?" Aline looked up. "Climb the demon towers?" She laughed. "No, no one ever does that. It's totally illegal, for one thing, and besides, why would you want to?" Aline, Isabelle thought, did not have much imagination. She herself could think of lots of reasons why someone might want to climb the demon towers, if only to spit gum down on passerbys below.

We Shadowhunters, we put ourselves in danger, every hour, every day. I think sometimes we are reckless with our hearts the way we are with our lives. When we give them away, we give every piece.

I don't want to be safe," he said. "I want to be with you

Alec would have said he could have benefited from a bit more in the way of constructive cowardice.

Always ask for what you want, because the worst thing that can happen is embarrassment but the best thing that can happen is nudity.

Jace was kissing her like he thought he might go to hell for doing it, but it would be worth it.

Simon," she said. "It's a perfectly fine plan." "The plan where you follow Jace and Sebastion off to some unknown dimensional pocket and we use these rings to communicate so those of us over here in the regular dimension of Earth can track you down? That plan?" "Yes." "No," he said. "No, it isn't.

I'm a Shadowhunter. Quip fast, die young.