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City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments, #6) QUOTES

City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments, #6) QUOTES

1 " We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss. "

― Cassandra Clare , City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments, #6)

2 " There are memories that time does not erase... Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable. "

― Cassandra Clare , City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments, #6)

3 " Every time I think I'm missing a piece of me, you give it back. "

― Cassandra Clare , City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments, #6)

4 " Izzy, are you—” he began. His eyes flew wide, and he backed up fast enough to smack his head into the wall behind him. “What is he doing here?”
Isabelle tugged her tank top back down and glared at her brother. “You don’t knock now?”
“It—It’s my bedroom!” Alec spluttered. He seemed to be deliberately trying not to look at Izzy and Simon, who were indeed in a very compromising position. Simon rolled quickly off Isabelle, who sat up, brushing herself off as if for lint. Simon sat up more slowly, trying to hold the torn edges of his shirt together. “Why are all my clothes on the floor?” Alec said.
“I was trying to find something for Simon to wear,” Isabelle explained. “Maureen put him in leather pants and a puffy shirt because he was being her romance-novel slave.”
“He was being her what?”
“Her romance-novel slave,” Isabelle repeated, as if Alec were being particularly dense.
Alec shook his head as if he were having a bad dream. “You know what? Don’t explain. Just—put your clothes on, both of you. "

― Cassandra Clare , City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments, #6)

5 " If you never tell anyone the truth about yourself, eventually you start to forget. The love, the heartbreak, the joy, the despair, the things I did that were good, the things I did that were shameful--if I kept them all inside, my memories of them would start to disappear. And then I would disappear. "

― Cassandra Clare , City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments, #6)

6 " And Nephilim—we tend to love very overwhelmingly. To fall in love only once, to die of grief over love—my old tutor used to say that the hearts of the Nephilim were like hearts of angels: They felt every human pain, and never healed. "

― Cassandra Clare , City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments, #6)

7 " It took courage to live an immortal life and not close off your heart and mind to any new experiences or new people. Because that which was new was almost always temporary. And that which was temporary broke your heart. "

― Cassandra Clare , City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments, #6)

8 " Aren't we forever? "

― Cassandra Clare , City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments, #6)

9 " Family isn't blood. It's the people who love you. The people who have your back. "

― Cassandra Clare , City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments, #6)

10 " As if we’d have sex in a cave surrounded by hordes of demons. This is reality, not your fevered imagination. "

― Cassandra Clare , City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments, #6)

11 " We find in our children our own selves again, who might be made better than we are. "

― Cassandra Clare , City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments, #6)

12 " Surely, she was too young to have so many ghosts. "

― Cassandra Clare , City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments, #6)

13 " Temper us in fire, and we grow stronger. When we suffer, we survive. "

― Cassandra Clare , City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments, #6)

14 " He remembered Tessa weeping in his arms in Paris, and thinking that he had never known the loss she felt, because he had never loved like she had, and that he was afraid that someday he would, and like Tessa he would lose his mortal love. And that it was better to be the one who died than the one who lived on. He had dismissed that, later, as a morbid fantasy, and had not remembered it again until Alec. "

― Cassandra Clare , City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments, #6)

15 " And she wept as well for the others lost in the Dark War, and she wept for her mother and the loss she had endured, and she wept for Emma and the Blackthorns, remembering how they had fought back tears when she had told them that she had seen Mark in the tunnels of Faerie, and how he belonged to the Hunt now, and she wept for Simon and the hole in her heart where he had been, and the she would miss him every day until she died, and she wept for herself and the changes that had been wrought in her, because sometimes even change for the better felt like a little death. "

― Cassandra Clare , City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments, #6)

16 " You couldn’t make someone love you with a rune, and you couldn’t assuage grief with it either. So much magic, Clary thought, and nothing to mend a broken heart. "

― Cassandra Clare , City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments, #6)

17 " Wherever Jordan's going - and I do believe we all go somewhere - think of it as the light that will bring him home. "

― Cassandra Clare , City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments, #6)

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

― Cassandra Clare , City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments, #6)

19 " Shapes began to appear in the mist as it thickened. Clary saw herself and Simon as children, holding hands, crossing a street in Brooklyn,; she had barrettes in her hair and Simon was adorably rumpled, his glasses sliding off his nose. There they were again, throwing snowballs in Prospect Park; and at Luke's farmhouse, tanned from summer, hanging upside down from tree branches. She saw them in Java Jones, listening to Eric's terrible poetry, and on the back of a flying motorcycle as it crashed into a parking lot, with Jace there, looking at them, his eyes squinted against the sun. And there was Simon with Isabelle, his hands curved around her face, kissing her, and she could see Isabelle as Simon saw her: fragile and strong, and so, so beautiful. And there was Valentine's ship, Simon kneeling on Jace, blood on his mouth and shirt, and blood at Jace's throat, and there was the cell in Idris, and Hodge's weathered face, and Simon and Clary again, Clary etching the Mark of Cain onto his forehead. Maureen, and her blood on the floor, and her little pink hat, and the rooftop in Manhattan where Lilith had raised Sebastian, and Clary was passing him a gold ring across a table, and an Angel was rising out of a lake before him and he was kissing Isabelle... "

― Cassandra Clare , City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments, #6)

20 " I think,” Jace said, “that you don’t want to tell your secrets, so you decided to break up with Alec because... "

― Cassandra Clare , City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments, #6)