#instrument

Simon stepped between them. “I’m not going to let you fight with each other.” “And what are you going to do about it if . . . Oh.” Jace's gaze trailed up to Simon’s forehead, and he grinned reluctantly. “ So basically you’re threatening to turn me into something you can sprinkle on popcorn if I don’t do what you say? ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-fallen-angels #jace-lightwood #mortal-instruments #simon-lewis #fighting

I'm always so glad I have no idea what you're vacantly chatting about," said Jace. It fills me with a sense of peace and well-being. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jace-lightwood #mortal-instruments #shadowhunters #idea

Isabelle waved a hand. "No need to worry, big brother. Nothing happened. Of course," she added as Alex'a shoulders relaxed, "I was totally passed-out drunk, so he could really have done whatever he wanted and I wouldn't have woken up." "Oh, please," said Simon. "All I did was tell you the entire plot of Star Wars." "I don't think I remember that," said Isabelle, taking a cookie from the plate on the table. "Oh, yeah? Who was Luke Skywalker's best childhood friend?" "Biggs Darklighter," Isabelle said immediately, and then hit the table with the flat of her hand."That is so cheating! ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-lost-souls #isabelle-lightwood #mortal-instruments #shadowhunters #simon-lewis

Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#instrument #life #riches

Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work. ↗

— Joshua Reynolds

#employed #end #instrument #language #means

I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument. ↗

— Paul McCartney

#i #instrument #practiced #singer #without

I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#i #i see #instrument #ornament #rather

I think there is no better way to invite a human being to view their body differently than by inviting them to be an athlete, by revering one's body as an instrument rather than just an ornament. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#being #better #better way #body #differently

Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us. ↗

— Walter Pater

#gather #help #ideas #instruments #may

It's the things that you notice when you're not actually with your instrument that, in fact, become so interesting, and that you - you want to explore, through this tiny tiny surface of a drum. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#become #drum #explore #fact #in fact