Life Quotes Quote by Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“There was beauty in the idea of freedom, but it was an illusion. Every human heart was chained by love.”

“He can touch your soul. And there is a difference between having your heart break and having your soul shatter.”

“She soared above the ground, and he kept her tethered to the earth. Without him she would be lost among the clouds.”

“Why all these paintings of you? Because I'm an artist, Emma. These pictures are my heart. And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you.”

““When you love someone, they become a part of who you are. They're in everything you do. They're in the air you breathe and the water you drink and the blood in your veins. Their touch stays on your skin and their voice stays in your ears and their thoughts stay in your mind. You know their dreams because their nightmares pierce your heart and their good dreams are your dreams too. And you don't think they're perfect, but you know their flaws, the deep-down truth of them, and the shadows of all their secrets, and they don't frighten you away; in fact you love them more for it, because you don't want perfect. You want them. You want—"”

“Strange, what being forced to slow down could do to a person.”

“Real life is messy, inconsistent, and it's seldom when anything ever really gets resolved. It's taken me a long time to realize that.”

“People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true. That’s how they define Reality. But what does it mean to be “correct” or “true”? Merely vague concepts… Their Reality may all be a mirage. Can we consider them to simply be living in their own world, shaped by their beliefs?”

“I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.”

“Every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better.”