#clare

There's nothing you could have done that would cause me to cease loving either of you. Will is myself, my own soul, and if I am not to have the keeping of your heart, then there is not other I would rather have that honor. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-princess #jem-carstairs #page- #love

I did not think you would be angry, Jem burst out, and it was like ice cracking across a frozen waterfall, freeing a torrent. We were engaged, Tessa. A proposal-an offer of marriage-is a promise. A promise to love and care for someone always. I did not mean to break mine to you. But it was that or die. I wanted to wait, to be married to you and live wit you for years, but that wasn't possible. I was dying too fast. I would have given it up-all of it up-to be married to you for a day. A day that would never have come. You are a reminder-a reminder of everything I am losing. The life I will not have. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-princess #jem-carstairs #loss #love #marriage

Wo men shi jie bai xiong di-we are more than brothers, Will. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-princess #jem-carstairs #page- #men

Jace slammed his hand down on the stele. “Clary-“ “She said she doesn’t want it,” said Simon. “Ha-ha.” “Ha-ha?” Jace looked incredulous. “That’s your comeback? ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-ashes #clary-fray #jace-wayland #simon #city

Hell is cold. Do you remember when you told me that? We were in the cellars of the Dark House. Anyone else would have been panicking, but you were as calm as a governess, telling me Hell was covered in ice. If it is the fire of Heaven that takes you from me, what a cruel irony that would be. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-princess #page- #irony

Vatican II declares the Church... as necessary for salvation. ↗

— Francis Arinze

#declares #ii #necessary #salvation #vatican

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#declared #feared #hatreds #more #openly

To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#bring #commit #conviction #crimes #criminal

For the first time in history, we declared war without financing it. Americans have not been asked to pay for it through taxes. ↗

— David Broder

#been #declared #financing #first #first time

When anarchy is declared, the first thing we do, let's kill all the anarchists. ↗

— Craig Bruce

#declared #first #first thing #kill #the first thing