Chain Of Iron Quotes

“You cannot save people who do not want to be saved," said Magnus. "You can only stand by their side and hope that when they wake and realize they need saving, you will be there to help them.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Iron

“We are none of us perfect, and no one expects perfection. But when you have hurt people, you must allow them their anger. Otherwise it will only become another thing you have tried to take away.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Iron

“You must stop this," he said. "You will make yourself unworthy by considering yourself unworthy. We become what we are afraid we will be.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Iron

“Daisy. She seem to blaze like a torch. James had always known she was beautiful-How he always known? Have there been a moment he had realized it? – But still the sight of her hit him like a blow. She was all fire, or heat and light, from the gold silk roses woven into her dark red hair to the ribbons and beads on her golden dress. The hilt of Cortana was visible over her left shoulder; the straps that secured it had been fashioned from thick gold ribbons.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Iron

“Suddenly James was there, throwing an arm around her from behind. He seemed heedless of Cortana as he drew her back against him, whispering in her ear, "'Neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor demons, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, shall be able to separate us.' Do you understand? Keep hold of me, Daisy. Keep hold of me and don't let go.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Iron

“I suppose I merely thought it would be enough for you to know. That you might — if anything were to happen to me, you would remember I loved you desperately. And if for some reason, at the end of the year, you and James divorced. I would have waited”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Iron

“Anna: I will never be with you. We have no future together. None. Do you still want me to kiss you anyway?

Ariadne: Yes. Yes.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Iron

“Cordelia clamped her lips together tightly, as if she were struggling not to cry. Christopher looked terribly alarmed. "Oh, what ho, tears," he said helplessly. "Ghastly- not that you shouldn't cry if you wish, of course. Cry like the blazes, Cordelia."
"Christopher," said James darkly. "You are not helping.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Iron

“Cordelia glanced down. She was scratched, but that was nothing to the spot in her heart where the knowledge that she was Lilith's paladin now bit like teeth. She couldn't look at James- she glanced over and saw Lucie, who was kneeling by Jesse's body. He lay where he had fallen, motionless and unbreathing. If he had not been truly dead before, he was now. Lucie looked utterly lost.
Cordelia closed her eyes, and hot tears spilled down her cheeks, scorching her skin.
"Daisy," she heard James say; she felt his stele brush over her arm, the faint sting and then the numbness of healing runes being applied. "Daisy, my love, I'm so sorry.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Iron

“Be quiet,” Belial snapped. “You, girl, do not matter. Your little talent with ghosts does not matter. When I heard you were born, I wept tears of fire, for you were female, and you could not see the shadow realms. You are useless, do you understand? Useless to me, to the world.”
But Lucie - slight and small, without a weapon in her hand - only looked at him steadily. “Talk all you want,” she said. “You certainly don’t matter. Only Jesse matters.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Anniversary Party, part 2

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

“They are human," Magnus said. "It is not in their capability to understand that which by its nature is almost beyond understanding. They see demons as what they fight. They forget that there are unimaginable forces that can bend the laws of the universe. The gods are walking, Malcolm, and none of us are prepared.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Iron

“The Nephilim are descended from angels, but to them angels are fairy tales. A power that exists but is never seen." He sighed. "It is not wise to forget to believe.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Iron

“The gods are walking, Malcolm, and none of us are prepared.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Iron

“He was so beautiful. But drinking was a sickness that ate away at beautiful things.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Iron

“This was London, not some blasted landscape of hellish death and destruction.'
'Unless you are talking about Piccadilly Circus when the traffic's bad.' said Matthew.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Iron

“Because when we are in pain, we are flayed open, and when we are flayed open, we cannot hide our true selves.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Iron

“Hope is a prison, truth is the key that unlocks it.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Iron

“It is hard to keep secrets,' James said. 'Both for those who do not know the truth, but also those who keep them.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Iron

“You are my constant star, Daisy.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Iron

“Calling a dead body 'not quite the ideal vessel' is rather like calling the sewers of London 'not that bad a holiday destination,”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Iron

“You cannot save people who do not want to be saved,' said Magnus. 'You can only stand by their side and hope that when they wake and realize they need saving, you will be there to help them.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Iron