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#City of Heavenly Fire quotes
inlovewithquotes · 10 months
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"Is that why you forgave me? For me, or you?" Alex said, not angry, just curious.
"I forgave you because I love you and I hate being without you. I hate it, my cat hates it. And because Catarina convinced me I was being stupid."
"Mmm. I like her."
Magnus's hands reached around Alec and flattened against his chest, as if he were feeling for his heartbeat. "And you forgive me," he said. "For not being able to make you immortal, or end my own immortality."
"There's nothing to forgive," Alec said. "I don't want to live forever." He laid one of his hands over Magnus's, twining their fingers together. "We might not have that much time," said Alec. "I'll get old and I'll die. But I promise I won't leave you until then. It's the only promise I can make."
"A lot of Shadowhunters don't get old," Magnus said. Alec could feel the thrum of his pulse. It was strange, Magnus like this, without words that usually came to him so easily.
Alec turned around in Magnus's embrace so that they faced each other, taking in all the details that he never got tired of: the sharp bones of Magnus's face, the gold-green of his eyes, the mouth that always seemed about to smile, though he looked worried now. "Even if it were just days, I would want to spend them all with you. Does that mean anything?"
"Yes," Magnus said. "It means that from now on we make every day matter."
-City Of Heavenly Fire
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William: So is our strategy for this still “trust me”?
Bree: It’s still “trust me”.
William: Oh, good. For a second there I was worried there was going to be a plan with, like, steps we could follow. You know, something reassuring.
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chaoticallymuse · 1 year
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Alec Lightwood
"You never called me back," he said. "I called you so many times and you never called me back." Magnus looked at Alec as if he'd lost his mind. "Your city is under attack," he said. "The wards have broken, and the streets are full of demons. And you want to know why I haven't called you?"
- City of Glass
"Good organization," said Magnus. “I knew the man who founded it, back in the 1800s. Woolsey Scot. Respectable old werewolf family.” Alec made an ugly sound in the back of his throat. “Did you sleep with him, too?” Magnus’s cat eyes widened. "Alexander!"
- City Of Fallen Angels
Alec looked merely irritated by this comment. "The only way you could raise enough money to hire Magnus by selling lemonade is if you put meth in it."
- City of Lost Souls
"Alec," Magnus said. He put a hand on his boyfriend’s shoulder; Alec was standing still, staring angrily at the floor. "Are you okay?" Alec looked at him. "Who are you again?" Magnus gave a little gasp; he looked — for the first time Simon could remember — actually unnerved. It lasted only a moment, but it was there. "Alexander," he said. "Too soon to joke about the happy memory thing, I take it," Alec said.
- City of Lost Souls
"I did not make a pie,” Alec repeated, gesturing expressively with one hand, “for three reasons. One, because I do not have any pie ingredients. Two, because I don’t actually know how to make a pie.” He paused, clearly waiting. Removing his sword and leaning it against the cave wall, Jace said warily, “And three?” “Because I am not your bitch,” Alec said, clearly pleased with himself.
- City of Heavenly Fire
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boooklover · 6 months
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“Every time I think I'm missing a piece of me, you give it back.”
Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire
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herondaleminds · 1 year
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"Herondales." Zachariah's voice was a breath, half laughter, half pain. "I had almost forgotten. No other family does so much for love, or feels so much guilt for it." - City of Heavenly Fire
I can feel Jem's pain and he was thinking about Will. His Will
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thetimetraveler24 · 21 days
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Clary: I know what you’re going to say. He’s my brother and I should be trying to get along with him.
Simon: No, he’s crazy and he needs to go down.
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daily-clace · 1 year
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Jace reached out and ran a careful finger down one of Clary’s curls, letting it wind around his hand. Alec remembered the first time he’d realized Jace was in love with her: He’d been watching his parabatai across a room, watching Jace’s eyes track her movements. He remembered thinking: She’s all he sees.
Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire
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malecftmaxrafe · 1 year
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"So," said Alec. His shirt was rumpled, clearly slept in, and he was bouncing a baby. Simon felt bad even bothering him. "What did you want to talk to me about?"
"I'm really sorry again about the other day," Simon told him.
Then he wondered if it was terrible that he had referenced sex in front of Alec's baby. Maybe Simon was just doomed to mortally offend Alec, over and over again. Forever.
"It's okay," said Alec. "I once walked in on you and Isabelle. I guess turnabout's fair play." He frowned. "Although you two were in my room at the time, so actually I think you still owe me."
—Born to Endless Night, Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy #8.
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vierss-herondale · 2 years
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“There are a hundred trillion cells in the human body,” she said. “And every single one of the cells of my body loves you. We shed cells, and grow new ones, and my new cells love you more than the old ones, which is why I love you more every day than I did the day before. It’s science. And when I die and they burn my body and I become ashes that mix with the air, and part of the ground and the trees and the stars, everyone who breathes that air or sees the flowers that grow out of the ground or looks up at the stars will remember you and love you, because I love you that much.” -CoHF
“I can’t untie myself from you, Clary—not my heart or my blood or my mind or any other part of me. And I don’t want to.” -CoG
“You were dead, and I brought you back. I upset the balance, not you. I opened the door for Lilith and her stupid ritual. I could have asked for anything, and I asked for you.” She tightened her grip on his shirt, her fingers white with cold and pressure. “And I would do it again. I love you, Jace Wayland—Herondale—Lightwood—whatever you want to call yourself. I don’t care. I love you and I will always love you, and pretending it could be any other way is just a waste of time.” -CoFA
“There is no pretending,” Jace said with absolute clarity. “I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there’s a life after that, I’ll love you then.” -CoG
“I love you, Jace Herondale. I love you and I need you like light and air, like my chalk and my paint, like beautiful things in the world. In that prison full of thorns under the Unseelie Tower, I was all right because you were there with me.” -A Love that Never Tires
“And now I’m looking at you,” he said, “and you’re asking me if I still want you, as if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has. I never dared give much of myself to anyone before—bits of myself to the Lightwoods, to Isabelle and Alec, but it took years to do it—but, Clary, since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me.” -CoG
“‘Green to mend our broken hearts,’” he quoted. It was part of a Nephilim children’s rhyme, one Clary knew well. His eyelashes brushed her cheek; his voice was warm in her ear. “You mended my heart,” he whispered. “You picked up the pieces of a broken, angry boy and you made him into a happy man, Clary.” -A Long Conversation
“It’s like there’s always been a piece of my soul missing, and it’s inside you, Clary. I know I told you once that whether God exists or not, we’re on our own. But when I’m with you, I’m not.” -CoLS
“Do you remember,” he said, “when we first met and I told you I was ninety percent sure putting a rune on you wouldn’t kill you—and you slapped me in the face and told me it was for the other ten percent?”
Clary nodded.
“I always figured a demon would kill me,” he said. “A rogue Downworlder. A battle. But I realized then that I just might die if I didn’t get to kiss you, and soon.”
“Clary licked her dry lips. “Well, you did,” she said. “Kiss me, I mean.”
He reached up and took a curl of her hair between his fingers. He was close enough that she could feel the warmth of his body, smell his soap and skin and hair. “Not enough,” he said, letting her hair slip through his fingers. “If I kiss you all day every day for the rest of my life, it won’t be enough.” -CoLS
“My heart is your heart,” he said. “My hands are your hands.” -CoLS
“It’s a bit of the very last verse from Paradiso—Dante’s Paradise. ‘My will and my desire were turned by love, the love that moves the sun and the other stars.’ Dante was trying to explain faith, I think, as an overpowering love, and maybe it’s blasphemous, but that’s how I think of the way that I love you. You came into my life and suddenly I had one truth to hold on to—that I loved you, and you loved me.” -CoFA
“You taught me it takes more bravery to love completely than it does to walk unarmed into a battle,” he said. “To love you and be loved by you is an honor, Clary.”
She grinned at him. “And what do I get in return for the honor?”
“My sparkling wit,” he said, starting to undo her zipper. “My charming company. My good looks. And . . .” He looked up at her, suddenly serious. “My heart, for all the days of my life.”
She bent to brush her lips across his. “And you have mine,” she said, and he wrapped his arms around her as the Institute clock chimed the witching hour and the midnight flower unfurled its white-gold petals, unnoticed. -A Love that Never Tires
“I belong to you. You could do anything you wanted with me and I would let you. You could ask anything of me and I’d break myself trying to make you happy. My heart tells me this is the best and greatest feeling I have ever had.” -CoG
“As long as I can still dream, I will dream of you.” -CoG
The world, the city, and all its lights and life seemed to have narrowed down to this, just her and Jace, the burning heart of a frozen world. -CoFA
“You love each other—anyone can see that, looking at you—that kind of love that can burn down the world or raise it up in glory.” -CoFA
“You promise.”
“I swear on the Angel.” He ducked his head down, kissed her cheek. “The hell with that. I swear on us.”
Clary wound her fingers into the sleeve of his T-shirt. “Why us?”
“Because there isn’t anything I believe in more.” -CoFA
“Since I met you, Clary, you have been the blade in my hand, even when I carried no weapons. I could always fight any demons but my own. You were my sword and shield against every moment I felt worthless, against every moment I hated myself, against every time I thought I wasn’t good enough.”
He slid one of the rings onto his own finger and held the other one out to her. She nodded, feeling her eyes burn with tears, and reached out her hand: He slipped the ​adamas ​band onto her ring finger.
“I want to marry you,” he said. “Do you want to marry me?”
“Yes,” she said through the tears, “I was supposed to be asking ​you​.​ ​You always get there first, you—”
“Not ​always,​ ” he said with a flash of his old grin, and took her into his arms. -A Love that Never Tires
“I really was sick," she said. "I swear. I almost died back there on the ship, you know."
He let her hand go, but he was staring at her, almost as if he meant to memorize her face. "I know," he said. "Every time you almost die, I almost die myself.” -CoA
“I thought I made you feel unsettled.”
“It’s been so long,” he said simply, “that I think I was unsettled by the idea of feeling like I belonged anywhere. But you made me feel like I belong.”- CoB
“You could have had anything else in the world, and you asked for me.”
She smiled up at him. Filthy as he was, covered in blood and dirt, he was the most beautiful thing she’d ever seen. “But I don’t want anything else in the world.” -CoG
Maybe I went a little over board with this but oh well
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my-archerboy · 1 year
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Jem Carstairs / City of Heavenly Fire / TMI 🎻
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lexy-lightwood-bane · 2 years
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Just in case you don't want to read the other stuff 😉
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inlovewithquotes · 10 months
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"You're pinning," said Jace.
Alec shrugged. "Look who's talking. 'Oh I love her. Oh, she's my sister. Oh why, why, why'--"
-City Of Heavenly Fire
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It's always "i love you" and not
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chaoticallymuse · 1 year
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He was Will, in all his perfect imperfections; Will, whose heart was as easy to break as it was carefully guarded; Will, who loved not wisely but entirely and with everything he had.
- Clockwork Princess, TID
"When will truly wants something," said Jem quietly, "when he feels something - he can break your heart. "
- Clockwork Prince, TID
"Herondales." Zachariah's voice was a breath, half laughter, half pain. "I had almost forgotten. No other family does so much for love, or feels so much guilt for it."
- City of Heavenly Fire, TMI
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boooklover · 6 months
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“There are memories that time does not erase… Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.”
Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire
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clockworkbee · 11 months
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alive in memory
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—The Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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—City of Heavenly Fire, by Cassandra Clare
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—The Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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