Chain Of Gold Quotes

“Matthew spoke in a low voice. “It would be one thing if James loved her. I would go into the quiet dark like Jem did and never speak of her again. But he doesn’t love her.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold

“We are Shadowhunters. We do not wait to be saved by others. We save ourselves.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold

“I should like to have a portrait in the attic,” Matthew mused, “that would show all my sins, while I stayed young and beautiful.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold

“Anna has a quality.” Matthew raised a thoughtful eyebrow. “The French would call it jolie laide.” Cordelia knew French well enough to frown. “Pretty-ugly? She’s not ugly!” “It doesn’t mean that,” Matthew said. “It means unusually pretty. Oddly beautiful. It denotes having a face with character.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold

“And yet,” Magnus said, “during that year, they are man and wife.”
Matthew looked up, his green eyes flashing. “And during that year, I will do nothing. What kind of person do you think I am?”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold

“But we suffer for because love is worth it.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold

“By the name of Lilith," he drawled. "Hide the breakables. Hide the whole house. Christopher Lightwood is here.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold

“People are only invincible in books,” said Cordelia.
“I think you will find most of the time, not even then,” said Tessa. “But at least we can always pick up a book and read it anew. Stories offer a thousand fresh starts.”
― Cassandra Clare

“It was odd, he thought—almost as if he had forgotten what a steady light her presence could be when the world went dark.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold

“Because I never wanted you to know!' Alastair burst out. 'Because I wanted you to have a childhood, a thing I never had. I wanted you to be able to love and respect your father as I never could. Every time he made a mess, who do you think had to clean it up? Who told you Father was ill or sleeping when he was drunk? Who went out and fetched him when he passed out in a gin palace and smuggled him in through the back door? Who learned at ten years old to refill the brandy bottles with water each morning so no one would notice the levels had sunk—?' He broke off, breathing hard.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold

“I wasn't sure what you might like, so I just took things from all over the house. There's a copy of A Tail of Two Cities with the second half missing, so maybe it's only a tale of one city.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold

“At any moment, Cordelia knew, her mother would notice that she was drifting in the middle of the dance floor like an abandoned tugboat and charge toward her, and then Cordelia would die. She would die of the humiliation.”
― Cassandra Clare

“No matter how dark and hopeless the world seemed, Lucie could always find beauty in a story.”
― Cassandra Clare, Ghosts of the Shadow Market

“Layla and Majnun - The killing witchery that lies, in her black, delicious eyes. And when her cheek the moon revealed, a thousand hearts were won: no pride, no shield, could check her power. Layla, she was called.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold

“The secret path he eager chose, where Layla's distant mansion rose; he kissed the door.
A thousand wings increased his pace, whence, his fond devotions paid, a thousand thorns his course delayed.
No rest he found by day or night- Layla, forever, in his sight.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold

“I know you were a captive there, Kieran said. But I would like to think you came to see something good in it as you saw something good in me. There is so much that is good in you, Kieran.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold

“There is no special protection in this world for kind people.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold

“I think too much and I drink too much. This is always my problem.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold

“Sometimes you have to stand back and let people do what they are good at, even if it seems like madness at the time,”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold

“We do not get to choose when in our lives we feel pain,' said Matthew. 'It comes when it comes, and we try to remember, even though we cannot imagine a day when it will release its hold on us, that all pain fades. All misery passes. Humanity is drawn to light, not darkness.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold

“That’s ridiculous,” Christopher said. “It is as if one was bitten by a duck and years later one shot a completely different duck and ate it for dinner, and called that revenge.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold