#clare

If Jem dies, I cannot be with Tessa,” said Will. “Because it will be as if I were waiting for him to die, or took some joy in his death, if it let me have her. And I will not be that person. I will not profit from his death. So he must live.” He lowered his arm, his sleeve bloody. “It is the only way any of this can ever mean anything. Otherwise it is only —” “Pointless, needless suffering and pain? I don’t suppose it would help if I told you that was the way life is. The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away,” Magnus said. “I want more than that,” said Will. “You made me want more than that. You showed me I was only ever cursed because I had chosen to believe myself so. You told me there was possibility, meaning. And now you would turn your back on what you created. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-princess #magnus-bane #the-infernal-devices #will-herondale #death

Look. I don’t want to push you into anything, but do you maybe want to —” “Call Magnus? Look, that’s a dead end, I know you’re trying to be helpful, but —” “—kiss me?” Jace finished. Alec looked as if he were about to fall off his chair. “WHAT? What? What?” “Once what would do.” Jace did his best to look as if this were the sort of suggestion one made all the time. “I think it might help.” Alec looked at him with something like horror. “You don’t mean that.” “Why wouldn’t I mean it?” “Because you’re the straightest person I know. Possibly the straightest person in the universe.” “Exactly,” Jace said, and leaned forward, and kissed Alec on the mouth. The kiss lasted approximately four seconds before Alec pulled forcefully away, throwing his hands up as if to ward Jace off from coming at him again. He looked as if he were about to throw up. “By the Angel,” he said. “Don’t ever do that again.” “Oh yeah?” Jace grinned, and almost meant it. “That bad?” “Like kissing my brother,” said Alec, with a look of horror in his eyes. “I thought you might feel that way.” Jace crossed his arms over his chest. “Also, I’m hoping we can just gloss over all the irony in what you just said.” “We can gloss over whatever you want to,” Alec said fervently. “Just don’t kiss me again. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#cassandra-clare #city-of-glass #jace-wayland #horror

It means, said Brother Jeremiah, The descent into Hell is easy. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-bones #clary-fray #jace-wayland #silent-brothers #jace-wayland

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand. ↗

— Susan B. Anthony

#depend #herself #i #man #must

The best policy is to declare victory and leave. ↗

— George D. Aiken

#declare #leave #policy #the best policy #victory

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong. ↗

— Elizabeth II

#belong #declare #devoted #family #great

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#ball games #dead #declared #football #football games

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#been #before #declared #doing #done

But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both. ↗

— Georg Brandes

#christianity #consciousness #declared #doubt #had

I declare myself an Austrian and a European. A united Europe will be a peaceful Europe. ↗

— Heinz Fischer

#declare #europe #european #i #myself