Ghosts Of The Shadow Market Quotes

“A secret too long kept can kill a soul by inches. I watched a secret almost destroy a man once, the finest man ever made. Such a secret is like keeping treasure in a tomb. Little by little, poison eats away at the gold. By the time the door is opened, there may be nothing left but dust.”
― Cassandra Clare, Ghosts of the Shadow Market

“He longed sometimes with an almost physical ache just to say 'My Husband' and have it be true.”
― Cassandra Clare, Ghosts of the Shadow Market

“The face of the one you love is the best mirror of all.”
― Cassandra Clare, Learn About Loss

“Let’s go see who can eat the most dumplings in the shortest amount of time. And duck! You really ought to try pressed duck! It’s a great delicacy.” Jem looked at Will, suppressing a smile. His friend glared back, but at last neither of them could hold back their laughter. Will said, “There is nothing so sweet as feasting upon the bones of my enemies. Especially with you at my side.”
― Cassandra Clare, Learn About Loss

“And I am afraid that the span of time that we have together may not be long.” “That has always been the case with us,” Will said. “But let us be grateful to your terrifying friend, because however long we have, here we are together and I see no sign of yin fen on you, and we are in possession of the knowledge that there was never any curse on me. For however long, there is no shadow on us.”
― Cassandra Clare, Learn About Loss

“Jem stood up and held out his hand to Will. Without realizing it, he held his breath. Perhaps this was a dream after all, and when Jem touched him Will would vanish away again. But Will’s hand was warm and solid and strong, and Jem drew him up easily. Together they began to run lightly over the tiles of the roof.
The night was very beautiful and warm, and they were both young.”
― Cassandra Clare, Ghosts of the Shadow Market

“I’m not sorry that I met you. If we never meet again, I will hope that one day a weapon made by my hand may yet prove useful to you in some way.”
― Cassandra Clare, Learn About Loss

“And where there was life, there was hope. Maybe not now, not yet, but someday, they could still have their future.”
― Cassandra Clare, Ghosts of the Shadow Market

“All I did was think about being worthy of coming home to you.”
― Cassandra Clare, Ghosts of the Shadow Market

“So that is when we are,” Will said. “But what I don’t know is where we are. Or how this is happening.”
“I think,” Jem said, “that a friend has made a bargain for me. I think that we are here together because the demon Belial is afraid of her, and she asked this for me. Because I would not ask for myself.”
― Cassandra Clare, Learn About Loss

“The bridge reminded her that there was still someone in the world that she loved.
That even if half of her heart was gone forever, the other half was still here. Unreachable, maybe, but here.”
― Cassandra Clare, Ghosts of the Shadow Market

“This evening the whole sky was bronze, as though to summon wicked powers.”
― Ghosts of the Shadow Market, "Forever Fallen.""

“She wanted to tell him, but she couldn’t. It wouldn’t be fair. It would be asking something of Jem that he couldn’t deliver, and the world had already asked far too much of him.”
― Cassandra Clare, Ghosts of the Shadow Market

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

“Did she know how beautiful she was? Did she know her eyes were the color of liquid gold, and that songs could be written about the way she turned out her wrist to reach for her glass?”
― Cassandra Clare, Ghosts of the Shadow Market

“This was what love was. It was total. It brought her together with everything. Anna barely cared if she made it home before someone would notice her missing. She wanted to feel like this forever—exactly this, this soft and fragrant and friendly morning, with the feel of Ariadne still on her skin. Her future, so confused before, was clear. She would be with Ariadne forever. They would travel the world, fight side by side.”
― Cassandra Clare, Ghosts of the Shadow Market

“He almost said “my fiancé,” but it was an awkward word. Once he’d said “my betrothed” and felt like a total idiot. He longed sometimes, with an almost physical ache, just to say “my husband” and have it be true.”
― Cassandra Clare, Ghosts of the Shadow Market

“There was not only one charm in this ring but spell after spell: magic for protection and deflection, magic to guide his arrows and blades, all the power at Magnus’s command poured into the metal. There was everything Magnus had been able to think of, to act as Alec’s armor and ensure Alec would return home safe to him. Most important, there was the look on Magnus’s face when he returned the ring, now symbolizing Alec’s family in two ways, to Alec. That was when Magnus had assured him that he believed they would be married one day.”
― Cassandra Clare, Ghosts of the Shadow Market

“Alec had heard a poem read at weddings: My true love has my heart, and I have his. Never was a fairer bargain made. Love that was permanent in the eyes of all the world, demanding respect, blazoning the certain knowledge Alec had when he woke every morning. Nobody else for me, until the day I die: having everyone else know that.”
― Cassandra Clare, Ghosts of the Shadow Market

“Her head was full of Ariadne’s orange-blossom perfume and the way her tumble of dark hair was pinned up in a gold comb.”
― Cassandra Clare, Ghosts of the Shadow Market

“He would not dishonor love by letting go. In the end, he chose to endure any pain rather than do that. Through the fire, as through the darkness, he held on.”
― Cassandra Clare, Ghosts of the Shadow Market

“It was easy, when you were a child, to go unseen.
The challenge, Céline understood now, was to be seen—and once seen, to endure judgment”
― Cassandra Clare, Ghosts of the Shadow Market

“She tried to believe that some part of him was still in there, seeing her, and longing to be seen.”
― Cassandra Clare, Ghosts of the Shadow Market

“I don't like the idea of giving up my independence. Before I am my parents' daughter or my brothers' sister, I am my own. I'm already a lot of people´s something. I don't need to be anyone else's anything, not for a long time.”
― Cassandra Clare, Ghosts of the Shadow Market