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Chain of Thorns

Cassandra Clare

Top 10 Best Quotes

“How much love people have denied themselves through the ages because they believed they did not deserve it. As if the waste of love is not the greater tragedy.”

“There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.”

“We are not here just to forget, but also to remember there are good and beautiful things in the world, always. And mistakes do not take them from us; nothing takes them from us. They are eternal.”

“Our failings are always more monstrous in our own eyes than any others, in the eyes of those who love us, we are forgiven.”

“But you cannot fix someone. In the end, if they can be fixed at all, they must do the repairs themselves.”

“We so desperately want to be with those who know the truth of us. Our secrets.”

“Mine is a complicated story, and people do not want to hear complicated stories. They want simple stories, in which people are either good or evil, and no one good ever makes a mistake, and no one evil ever repents.”

“It’s like you don’t live in the real world. You live in a world of stories.’ As if that were a terrible thing.”

“We have been in the crucible, and come out as gold.”

“There is no shame in caring about someone. Even if it hurts.”

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