Life Quotes Quote by Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I thought perhaps that when you told me you did not love me that my own feelings would fall away and atrophy, but they have not. They have grown every day. I love you now more desperately, this moment, than I have ever loved you before, and in an hour I will love you more than that”

““She leaned forward and caught at his hand, pressing it between her own. The touch was like white fire through his veins. He could not feel her skin only the cloth of her gloves, and yet it did not matter.”

“One does no question miracles, or complain that they are no constructed perfectly to one's liking.”

““Of course you can have a true Shadowhunter name," Will said. "You can have mine."”

“Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”

“People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.”

“A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.”

“The world is a show and the show is a performance of the wealthy, the beautiful and the fortunate. The invulnerable, the matchless and the exclusive live a life like dazzling fish in a scintillating seascape behind glass. Everybody may admire them, but nobody can touch them. ( “Keeping up with the Joneses” )”

“I wanted to stay locked away from the pain and destruction. I didn't want to be strong. I didn't want to be the 'smart girl'. I was so very tired. I just wanted it all to be over.”

“Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.”

“And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.”