#light

You know, some people think Shadowhunters are just myths. Like mummies and genies." Kyle grinned at Jace. "Can you grant wishes?" "That depends," he said. "Do you wish to be punched in the face? ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jace-lightwood #jordan-kyle #think

There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#light #hope

The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#flying #secret

Photoshop is just like makeup. When it’s done well it looks great, and when it’s overdone you look like a crazy asshole. ↗

— Tina Fey

#crazy

I looked at the stained-glass image of the lamb in the window above me, but that only reminded me that lambs are famous for being led to slaughter, or sometimes hanging out with lions in ill-advised relationships. ↗

— Maureen Johnson

#funny #humor #humour #lambs #slaughter

Dream Song of Thunders: Sometimes I go about pitying Myself, While I am carried by the wind Across the sky. ↗

— Frances Densmore

#irony #old-songs #transcendence #wind #dreams

Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#failure

Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#light #reading #read

You can take your Law," she said in a measured tone, "and shove it right up your- ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-ashes #isabelle-lightwood #the-mortal-instruments #law

Why are you always trying to get yourself killed?" "It's my job." "It's a hazard of your job. At least for most Shadowhunters. For you it seems to be the purpose. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jace-lightwood #simon-lewis #purpose