Queen of Air and Darkness Quotes

“Maybe that was why she liked horror movies, Dru thought; the dead never stayed dead, and those left behind were too busy wandering unwisely around in the woods to have time to grieve or feel loss.”
― Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness

“But so was any kind of love, and if love was a weakness, it was a strength, too.”
― Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness

“What happens in Faerie stays in Faerie, I guess?”
― Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness

“Maybe that was why she liked horror movies, Dru thought; the dead never stayed dead, and those left behind were too busy wandering unwisely around in the woods to have time to grieve or feel loss.”
― Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness

“Now she felt a restlessness that went beyond that; the old hopes felt too confining, as if they were a dress she had outgrown. Perhaps you outgrew your dreams, too, as your world expanded.”
― Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness

“She told me once there is a clock in the hearts of parents. Most of the time it is silent, but you can hear it ticking when your child is not with you and you do not know where they are, or when they are awake in the night and wanting you. It will tick until you are with them again.”
― Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness

“Cats actually do okay here,” said Diana. “They’re a little demony themselves.”
― Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness

“His whole life had been built around exerting control over himself, over the mask he showed the world, and now it was cracking.”
― Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness

“Church!" Emma scooped him up in her arms, and Church did what he usually did. He went limp.
"Is that cat dead?" Diana demanded.
"No, he isn't," Emma cooed, and kissed his furry face. Church went limper. "He just hates affection.”
― Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness

“Gwyn. The thought of him lit a spark of warmth in her heart. She closed her hand carefully around the petals.”
― Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness

“We didn’t,” she interrupted. “I’m a virgin.”
― Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness

“Nescis quid serus vesper vehat.”
― Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness

“He was overwhelmed by the desire to drop down to his knees and grab Ty’s hands, and hold him the way he had on the rooftop in London when Livvy had been hurt.”
― Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness

“Helping him would be a true betrayal of my father."
"If you don't help, then it will be a true betrayal of your brother," said Cristina. "Sometimes you cannot be loyal to everyone.”
― Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness

“He would be as everyone was, especially Shadowhunters: a patch-work of love and grief, of gains and losses. The love helped you accept the grief. You had to feel it all.”
― Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness

“A voice seemed to ring in his head, clear as a bell; it was the Seelie Queen’s voice.

Have you ever wondered how we lure mortals to live amongst faeries and serve us, son of thorns? We choose those who have lost something and promise them that which humans desire most of all, a cessation to their grief and suffering. Little do they know that once they enter our Lands, they are in the cage and will never again feel happiness.

You are in that cage, boy.”
― Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness

“Emma was all the good in him, he thought, all that burned bright. But then the pain had come, and the sense of something wrong.”
― Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness

“The Children of Lilith will indeed be in debt to the Children of the courts after this day Kieran Kingson," said Magnus, staring intently in what he clearly thought was Kieran's direction.
"That was a very nice speech, Bane" said Jace. "Unfortunately, you're talking to a doughnut."
"I appreciate the sentiment regardless," said Kieran.”
― Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness

“No one owns facts,” Cristina said quietly. “They are immutable.”
― Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness

“I prefer redheads myself.”
― Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness

“There is much that is good in you, Kieran.”
― Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness

“The world can change so quickly,” Jia said. “One day the future seems hopeful, and the next day clouds of hate and bigotry have gathered as if blown in from some as yet unimagined sea.”
“They were always there, Jia,” said Diana. “Even if we did not want to acknowledge them. They were always on the horizon.”
Jia looked weary, [...] “I do not know if we can gather enough strength to clear the skies again.”
― Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness

“You saw me lie to Kieran,” he said. “Yes, but that was to save lives,” she said. “Unless you’re telling me that you not wanting to have sex with me has something to do with saving lives, which I find hard to believe—”
― Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness

“No doubts. Magnus didn't need to search his soul. He'd searched it a thousand times, ten thousand, in the years he'd known Alec”
― Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness

“Alec gave her a nod, and spoke coolly. “You voted for my father for Inquisitor, Balogh, so it didn’t bother you then,” he said. “My father gave his life in this room for the Clave. What have you done besides exile Shadowhunter children because you were afraid of their faerie blood?” “Damn,” said someone in the back. “He’s good.”
― Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness

“There's plenty of room for me to hate them all.”
― Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness

“That was what was gone from Julian, she thought, shivering again. The thousands of emotions that had always lived behind his expressions, the love-for her, for his siblings-behind his eyes. Even his worry seemed to have gone, and that was stranger than anything else.”
― Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness

“It seems the rumours of our death have been greatly exaggerated.”
― Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness

“A medallion? Emma remembered Cristina’s necklace, its power to control time in Faerie. One of them is missing. . . .”
― Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness

“I cannot bear these inside spaces. And I have missed you so much. Will you come into the desert with me?”
― Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness