#sand

She could never take an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth. The weak and flaccid parity would make her nearly puke. She wants an eye for a tooth, and a life for an eye. ↗

— Helen Zahavi

#revenge #life

The Lord has to break us down at the strongest part of our self-life before He can have His own way of blessing us. ↗

— James H. McConkey

#spirituality #life

And now I’m looking at you,” he said, “and you’re asking me if I still want you, as if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has. I never dared give much of myself to anyone before – bits of myself to the Lightwoods, to Isabelle and Alec, but it took years to do it – but, Clary, since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-glass #clary #jace #love #mortal-instruments

For that was love, wasnt it--to burn bright in someone else's eyes? ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#cassandra-clare #clockwork-angel #clockwork-prince #jem-carstairs #love

For love is no part of the dreamworld. Love belongs to desire, and desire is always cruel ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#love #sandman #love

Why is this so hard?” I whispered. His pulse leaped crazily at my admission. “Everything worth fighting for is hard. ↗

— Rachel Vincent

#hard #jace-hammond #love #truth #love

There are ways in which we’re so alike. We’re reckless. We don’t think before we act. We’ll do anything for people we love. And I never thought how scary that was for the people who loved me until I saw ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-lost-souls #clary-fray #cols #jace-herondale #jace-lightwood

To love is to destroy and to be loved is to be the one destroyed ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-bones #jace-wayland #love

I always loved you, Will, whatever you did. And now I need you to do for me what I cannot do for myself. For you to be my eyes when I do not have them. For you to be my hands when I cannot use my own. For you to be my hear when mine is done with beating. No, said Will wildly. No, no, no. I will not be those things. Your eyes will see, your hands will feel, your hear will continue to beat. But if not, Will- If I could tear myself in half, I would-that half of me might remain with you and half follow Tessa- Half of you would be no good to either of us, said Jem. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

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

Daja doesn't exactly need to be tested on whether she's honorable or not." "Doesn't she? Don't all of you? This is your first taste of the things which may come from your being powerful mages. People will offer you gold, status, even love. I want to know how you will react. If want to know if your teachers will release greedy, thoughtless monsters into the world. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#consequences #niko #sandry #testing #love