Melanie > Books: read-in-2018‎ (202)

“War can’t be ended any more than the rain.”

“War can’t be ended any more than the rain.”

“It takes someone you love to break your heart.”

“At least I get to grow old.”

“But the fact is that few people are able

“But the fact is that few people are able to see value in the words of someone they truly dislike. Have your own opinions spoken back to you by someone you despise and you will likely begin to find fault.”

“And it’s not like I don’t know how much trouble one little kiss can lead to...”

“I got you something…”

“It was a freaking Hanukkah miracle.”

“But she was prettier than the whole lot of them put together…”

“Maybe this is exactly what Leigh needed: to get grounded. Literally and otherwise.”

“Lucy looks into a wardrobe”

“Lucy looks into a wardrobe”

“…Princesses like no-strings sex just as much as the next girl.”

“…Princesses like no-strings sex just as much as the next girl.”

“Boring guys finish last,” she corrected, pushing the completed forms back to him. “Nice guys finish anywhere they want. Especially when they look like you.”

“Funny; he’d been a hell of a lot more charming when she was just serving him coffee.”

“I am always surprised to discover that when the world seems darkest, there

“I am always surprised to discover that when the world seems darkest, there exists the greatest opportunity for light.”

“We are not always presented with the choices we want, but choices exist nonetheless.”

“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.”

“Because if you threw me away and everything we had, it had better be for something that meant more to you”

“I had never realized before how much you can take from someone by not allowing them the words they need to describe themselves.”

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”

“Break my heart. Break it in pieces. I give you permission.”

“It was beautiful and right. It was wrong and ugly, just like the earth beneath my feet. It was tragic and ecstatic. It was everything I’d hop

“It was beautiful and right. It was wrong and ugly, just like the earth beneath my feet. It was tragic and ecstatic. It was everything I’d hoped love could be.”

“Before this, I was Layla Robinson, crazy in love with her stepbrother. Now, I’m Layla Robinson, crushing on her poetry professor.”

“Firecrackers burst over my skin at the way he said my name. As far as I’m concerned, my name is average, but his voice, the movements of his tongue against his lips, make it special.”

“We shouldn’t look for love stories where there are none to be found.”

“Crowning Isolde Kavanagh as th

“Crowning Isolde Kavanagh as the rightful queen was not the end of our rising. It was merely the beginning.”

“If you were a storm, I would lie down and rest in your rain. If you were a river, I would drink from your currents. If you were a poem, I would never cease to read you.”

“Is it only blood that makes a House? Or is it beliefs? What holds people together more? The red in their veins or the fire in their hearts?”

“No one is ever the villain of their own story.”

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

“You are all that exists on the earth and under the sky that I do love.”

“It was a sort of love few other people could understand. It was total and it was overwhelming and it could be cruel.”

“There is nothing more important than love. And no law higher.”

“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!”

“Hatred makes monsters of us all.”

“Hatred makes monsters of us all.”

“The world will destroy her in the end. Too much spark leads to explosions. But your sister will destroy as much as she can before she goes out. She will go down in flames and blood.”

“Perhaps she had never stopped being that girl lost in a place where she could never have power.”

“He waved good-bye to all these people he barely knew and somehow loved anyway, and he hoped they could not tell how relieved he was to be going.”

“We all have our own story of the Dark War. All of us lost something. Some of us lost everything.”

“The trick to falling is not to fall…”

“James Herondale was the son of angels and demons,” she said softly. “He was always fated to walk a difficult and painful path, to drink bitter water with sweet, to tread where there were thorns as well as flowers. Nobody could save him from that. People did try.”

“He just knew, on a level beneath reason and memory, that some part of him belonged with Isabelle.”

“This is how a faerie loves: with a gift.”

“I got distracted making out with a boy, and then locked up by a goblin”

“True parabatai are linked long before the ceremony takes place.”

“Obviously you would call them Malec,” said Beatriz. “Are you stupid, Simon?”

“That they would drink from the Mortal Cup. That they would, like the first of the warrior race, Jonathan Shadowhunter, sip the blood of an angel. That they would, if they were lucky, be transformed on the spot into real, full-blooded Shadowhunters.”

“Humans did not live forever. They could only hope what they made would endure.”

“A count! Named Axel! A military man! With black hair and blue eyes! And in a state of distress! Oh, the universe had outdone herself.”

“I was born to be a warrior, and I was born to be with her.”

“…For one Herondale to be saved by love, and another Herondale dammed by it.”

“Nothing is permanent," Magnus said. "I know this from experience. But you can get new things. You can meet new people. You can go on.”

“Love did not overcome everything. Love did not always endure. All you had could be taken away, love could be the last thing you had, and then love could be taken too.”

“Because in the end nothing is worse than seeing the fall of one you loved. It was somehow worse than losing a love. It made everything seem questionable. It made the past bitter and confused.”

“This was love, new and bright and terrifying…”

“It was one of the few things he had to believe in, the possibility of beauty when faced with the reality of so much ugliness.”

“And silver, though few people knew it, was a rarer metal than gold.”

“Please don’t ever tell Jace I said he was a badass.”