#ashes

It's not funny, Jace," Alec interrupted, starting to his feet. "Are you just going to let her stand there and call me names?" "Yes," Jace said kindly. "It'll do you good-- try to think of it as endurance training. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-ashes #city-of-bones #city-of-glass #jace-wayland #mortal-instruments

I guess it's true what they say. There are no straight men in the trenches." ~Jace ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clary-fray #funny #humor #jace-wayland #misquoted

Honestly, Clary, if you don't start utilizing a bit of your natural feminine superiority I just don't know what I'll do with you. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#funny #isabelle #funny

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#ashes #be true #dust #endure #facts

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#burn #few #few things #incense #lighter

My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#ashes #being #disaster #expected #garland

Now I'm going to put my eyelashes on and stretch my legs out and do a show. ↗

— Nana Visitor

#going #i #legs #now #out

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods? ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#better #die #facing #fathers #fearful

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#clashes #demands #does #his #likewise

Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes. ↗

— Marcus Valerius Martial

#ashes #been #comes #glory #late