Quotes About Patience

I must say, I rather like the way you manage Will.

Wait a second," Clary said. "I never understand why people say that," Luke said, to no one in particular. "I wasn't going anywhere.

You cannot save people who do not want to be saved," said Magnus. "You can only stand by their side and hope that when they wake and realize they need saving, you will be there to help them.

He'll come back," Simon said again. "For you.

Jem always said that Will rushed toward the end of a mission rather than proceeding in a measured manner, and that one must look at the next step on the path ahead, rather than the destination in the distance, or one would never reach one's goal. Will closed his eyes for a moment. He knew that Jem was right, but it was hard to remember, when the goal that he sought was the girl that he loved.

Unfortunately, we're all out of bitter revenge at the moment, so it's either tea or nothing.

Be good, my archer boy. Come back to me.

Shadowhunters are slow to love but once we love, we love forever.

Maybe one day it will be just you and me, my little blueberry," Magnus said conversationally. "But not for a long, long time. We'll take care of him, you and I. Won't we?" Max Lightwood made a happy burbling sound that Magnus took as agreement.

And I suppose you know who Magnus' father is?" Luke said. "I paid a lot of money once to find it out," Raphael said.

He hadn't stopped wanting love. He had simply, somehow, stopped looking.

endless hope, endless disappointment.

Sometimes grief and worry must take the form of action," said Cordelia. "Sometimes it is unbearable to sit and wait.

I played it for my bride, and one day you will play for yours.

Jem] looked from Will to Tessa and raised his silvery eyebrows. "A miracle," he said. "You got him to speak." "Just to shout at me, really," said Tessa. "Not quite loaves and fishes.

Perhaps, but you would not exist without a woman, would you? However little use you may find us, we are cleverer and more determined and more patient than men. Men may be stronger, but it is women who endure.

There. She had thanked Sebastian. She waited for a bolt of lightning to shoot out of the clouds and striker her dead. But nothing happened.

Why does it take girls so long to shower?" he demanded. "Mortal girls, Shadowhunters, female warlocks, you're all the same. I'm not getting any younger waiting out here." -Magnus to Clary, pg.272-

Almost four hundred years is quite a lot to take even if you moisture regulary

We cant go around picking up every pile of dust in the place just in case it turns out to be Gregor in the morning." -Pg.242-

One must look at the next step on the path ahead, rather than the mountain in the distance, or one would never reach one's goal.

Sometimes there is not always a cure.

James had never imagined that the hardest thing he would ever do in his life was nothing at all.

Sometimes it's braver not to fight. Protect them, and save your vengeance for another day.