The Last Hours 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

“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

“We become what we are afraid we will be, Layla.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Thorns

“I suppose it depends on your definition of love. Love that will give up nothing, love that one is willing to sacrifice for a more comfortable life, is not love, in my opinion. Love should come above all other things.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Thorns

“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

“And she had learned that things could not be changed by willing them to be different. Dreams, hopes, wishes, were just like that. Strength lay in keeping tight hold of reality, even if it was like grasping a stinging nettle in her hand.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Thorns

“If it were not for you, my Daisy, I would have belonged to Belial long ago. For there is no one else in this world, my most beautiful, maddening, adorable wife, that I could ever have loved half as much as I have loved you. My heart beats for you," he said. "Only ever you.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Thorns

“You ought to be adored above all things, for you are wonderful. You ought to have someone's whole heart. But I do not have a whole heart to give you.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Thorns

“I know. Math, it's not a question of being perfect. What you are trying to do is incredibly difficult. You may falter at times. But I do not believe a moment of weakness is failure. Not as long as you keep trying.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Thorns

“What I am putting behind me is the keeping of secrets. Not every secret" - she smiled a little - "but the kind we keep because of shame, or some imagined failing that others will judge. Our failings are always more monstrous in our own eyes than any others'; in the eyes of those who love us, we are forgiven.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Thorns

“It is a dreadful chore, being the eldest."

-Alastair Carstairs”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Thorns

“Pity and kindness were not love. Only free choice was love; if he had learned nothing else from the horror of the bracelet, he had learned that.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Thorns

“Try not to collect any painful memories, Lucie," he said. "Do not get too attached to anything, or anyone. For if you lose them, the memory will burn in your mind like a poison for which there will never be any cure.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Thorns

“I know people hurt one another. I know relationships are complicated. Believe me. But it's been my experience that - well, that when everyone loves one another enough, there will always be a way for things to come out all right in the end.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Thorns

“It's just hard to know, when you have a secret ... will telling it bring healing? Or just more hurt? Isn't it selfish, to unburden myself just to relieve my own conscience?”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Thorns

“But you cannot fix someone, Cordelia, " she added. "In the end, if they can be fixed at all, they must do the repairs themselves.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Thorns

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

“I'm coming down but it's going to take me a moment. This ladder is held together by old runes and the spirit of optimism.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Thorns

“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

“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