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Quotes About Mystery

I wanted to live, but whether I would or not was mystery, and in the midst of confronting that fact, even at that moment, I was beginning to sense that to stare into the heart of such a fearful mystery wasn't a bad thing. To be afraid is a priceless education. P 99
~ Lance Armstrong
I had been found in a mud puddle at 4:30 in the morning.
~ Lance Loud
If there appeared a stranger to you bending down for a kiss unexpectedly would you walk without clothes out of the mirror's view to discover if it is you who are the true stranger you promised yourself to. Does your face open on hinges and inside two strangers entwine and a trumpet sings out each time you look out of the space left out when your eyes shine in.
~ Landis Everson
The thing about the Mirror is that no one knows where it is. In fact, no one knows what it is." "It's a mirror," Simon said. "You know – reflective, glass. I'm just assuming.
~ Cassandra Clare
Is this the part where you tell me you're secretly in love with me? Vampire mojo strikes again.
~ Cassandra Clare
Love is a contradiction.
~ Cassandra Clare
She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all?
~ Cassandra Clare
Look at him. The face of a bad angel and eyes like the night sky in Hell. He's very pretty, and vampires like that. I can't say I mind either.
~ Cassandra Clare
Isabelle looked at him thoughtfully. "Did you seriously jump thirty feet out of a Malachi Configuration? Did he, Alec?" "He did," Alec confirmed. "I've never seen anything like it." "I've never seen anything like this." Jace lifted a ten-inch dagger from the floor. One of Isabelle's pink brassiers was spread on the wickedly sharp tip. Isabelle snached it off, scowling.
~ Cassandra Clare
He seemed to realize she was staring at him, because the cursing stopped. "You cut me," he said. His voice was pleasant. British. Very ordinary. He looked at his hand with critcal interest. "It might be fatal." Tessa looked at him with wide eyes. "Are you the Magister?" He tilted his hand to the side. Blood ran down it, spattering the floor. "Dear me, massive blood loss. Death could be imminent.
~ Cassandra Clare
Get over here. Sheldon's had an idea." "Who's Sheldon?", said Isabelle.
~ Cassandra Clare
Henry turned as if to dart out of the room, then swung around and stared at them, a look of confusion passing over his freckled face, as if he had only now had cause to wonder why Will, Tessa, and Jem might be crouching together in a mostly disused storage room. "What are you three doing in here, anyway?" Will tilted his head to the side and smiled at Henry. "Charades," he said. "Massive game.
~ Cassandra Clare
Wait." Isabelle suddenly sat up straight. "What did you say that name was?" she demanded, turning to Jace. "The name in Clary's head." "I didn't," said Jace. "At least, I didn't finish it. It's Magnus Bane." He grinned at Alec mockingly. "Rhymes with 'overcareful pain in the ass.'" Alec muttered a retort into his coffee. It rhymed with something that sounded a lot more like "ducking glass mole." Clary smiled inwardly.
~ Cassandra Clare
I think Zachariah just stole our cat. I swear I saw him putting Church into the backseat of a car.
~ Cassandra Clare
The funny thing about mundies is how obsessed with magic they are for a bunch of people who don't even know what the word means.
~ Cassandra Clare
WHO CALLS UPON THE HIGH WARLOCK?
~ Cassandra Clare
Now don't go wandering off, William," she said with a meaningful glance. "I don't want to lose you in the crowd." Will's jaw set. "I'm getting the oddest feeling that you're enjoying this," he said under his breath. "Nothing odd about it." Feeling unbelievably bold, Tessa chucked him under the chin with the tip of her lace fan. "Simply behave yourself.
~ Cassandra Clare
She turned to look at Sebastian, lying on the bed. He was shirtless, and even in the dim light the old whip weals across his back were visible. She had always been fascinated by Shadowhunters but had never thought she would find one whose personality she could stand for more than five minutes, until Sebastian.
~ Cassandra Clare
Clearly,' said Luke, 'something's going on that I don't know about.' Simon looked over at him. 'Sometimes I think that's the motto of my life.
~ Cassandra Clare
Charlotte, who had sagged back in her chair, her eyes half-closed, said, "Will, I have already been up all night copying down the relevant parts. Much of it was—" "Gibberish?" Jem suggested. "Pornographic?" said Will at the same time. "Could be both," said Will. "Haven't you ever heard of pornographic gibberish before?
~ Cassandra Clare
Other people have shrubbery in their gardens. You have a bottomless pit.
~ Cassandra Clare
He'd woken up the next day in the city hospital with Magnus Bane staring down at him with an odd expression--it could have been deep concern or merely curiosity, it was hard to tell with Magnus.
~ Cassandra Clare
What happens in the demon realms stays in the demon realms," said Jace.
~ Cassandra Clare
They're still looking at him.... At Will..." "Of course they are.... Look at him. The face of a bad angel and eyes like the night sky in Hell.
~ Cassandra Clare