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The Midnight Heir (The Bane Chronicles, #4) QUOTES

The Midnight Heir (The Bane Chronicles, #4) QUOTES

1 " A great sadness welled up in Magnus at the sight of him. It was human to age and die, and Jem stood outside that humanity now, outside the light that burned so brightly and so briefly. It was cold outside that light and fire. No one had greater cause to know that cold than Magnus did. "

― Cassandra Clare , The Midnight Heir (The Bane Chronicles, #4)

2 " Magic or nature, they were much the same thing to Magnus. "

― Cassandra Clare , The Midnight Heir (The Bane Chronicles, #4)

3 " Tessa, Will, and Jem had raised James in love, and had surrounded him with love and the goodness it could produce. But they had given him no armor against the evil. They had wrapped his heart in silks and velvet, and then he had given it to Grace Blackthorn, and she had spun for it a cage of razor wire and broken glass, burned it to bits, and blown away the remains, another layer of ashes in this place of beautiful horrors. "

― Cassandra Clare , The Midnight Heir (The Bane Chronicles, #4)

4 " There was still about them what had always reminded Magnus of an old legend he’d heard of the red thread of fate: that an invisible scarlet thread bound certain people, and however tangled it became, it could not and would not break. "

― Cassandra Clare , The Midnight Heir (The Bane Chronicles, #4)

5 " Jem had moved the same way coming in, but as Will neared him, Jem took a step toward his former parabatai, and the step was swift, eager, and human, as if being close to the people whom he loved made him feel made of flesh and racing blood once more.
“You’re here,” said Will, and implicit in the words was the sense that Will’s contentment was complete. Now Jem was there, all was right with the world. "

― Cassandra Clare , The Midnight Heir (The Bane Chronicles, #4)

6 " Magnus began to be truly alarmed. Will's voice would have shaken, betraying that his cruelty had been part of his playacting, but his son's laugh was that of someone genuinely delighted by the chaos erupting all around him "

― Cassandra Clare , The Midnight Heir (The Bane Chronicles, #4)

7 " Ragnor [was] always happy to see chaos, but not be involved in it. "

― Cassandra Clare , The Midnight Heir (The Bane Chronicles, #4)

8 " Magnus did not take such suffering lightly, but even mortals did not die of broken hearts. No matter how cruel Grace had been, he told himself, James would heal. Even though he was a Herondale. "

― Cassandra Clare , The Midnight Heir (The Bane Chronicles, #4)

9 " How they loved each other, these three, how they had suffered for each another, and yet how much joy they clearly took from simply being in the same room. "

― Cassandra Clare , The Midnight Heir (The Bane Chronicles, #4)

10 " Then I lost him for a brief period of time, and by the time I caught up with him, he had wandered into Hyde Park, waded into the Serpetine, spread his arms wide, and was shouting, 'Ducks, embrace me as your king! "

― Cassandra Clare , The Midnight Heir (The Bane Chronicles, #4)

11 " I decided it was well past time to take him home and place him in bosom of his family. If you had rather I put him in an orphanage, I fully understand. "

― Cassandra Clare , The Midnight Heir (The Bane Chronicles, #4)

12 " Do stop flirting with my husband," said Tessa.
"I shall not," Magnus declared, "but I will pause briefly so that I may catch up on your news. "

― Cassandra Clare , The Midnight Heir (The Bane Chronicles, #4)

13 " Coaxing drunken Shadowhunters into making fools of themselves was a favorite occupation among the Downworlders, and this performance had been a tremendous success. "

― Cassandra Clare , The Midnight Heir (The Bane Chronicles, #4)

14 " Let me say to you what I said once, in an entirely different context to Catherine the Great," Magnus declared. "My dear lady, you cannot afford me,and also, please leave that horse alone. Good night. "

― Cassandra Clare , The Midnight Heir (The Bane Chronicles, #4)

15 " I was everything I was ever asked to be, and as my reward my life was burned to ash. Do not speak to me of easing my pain. My pain is all I have left. Do not speak to me of being a Shadowhunter. I am not one of them. I refuse to be. "

― Cassandra Clare , The Midnight Heir (The Bane Chronicles, #4)

16 " If you do not intend to help us," she said, "then leave this house. Dawn is coming."
"I am not a vampire." Magnus said. "I shall not disappear with the light"
"You will if I kill you before the sun comes up. "

― Cassandra Clare , The Midnight Heir (The Bane Chronicles, #4)

17 " She seemed shy, yet all her attention was focused on Magnus, as if he were the most fascinating thing she had ever seen. There was no man who did not want to see himself reflected like that in a beautiful girl's eyes. "

― Cassandra Clare , The Midnight Heir (The Bane Chronicles, #4)

18 " She seemed like a creature made to attract everyone and express nothing real, though it would take a master observer, like Magnus, to know it. "

― Cassandra Clare , The Midnight Heir (The Bane Chronicles, #4)

19 " Hello, Uncle Brother Zachariah," James said without opening his eyes. "I would say that I'm sorry to bother you, but I'm sure this is the most excitement you've had all year. Not so lively in the City of Bones, now is it?"
"James!" Will snapped. "Don't talk to Jem like that."
"As if I am not used to badly behaved Herondales, Brother Zachariah said, in the way Jem had always tried to make peace between Will and the world. "

― Cassandra Clare , The Midnight Heir (The Bane Chronicles, #4)

20 " James had given his heart to this
girl, Magnus thought, and Magnus knew
well enough from Edmund and Will what
it meant when a Herondale gave his heart
away. It was not a gift that could be
returned. "

― Cassandra Clare , The Midnight Heir (The Bane Chronicles, #4)