spoiler visualizarEvelyn 19/05/2020
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" “I hear you have come to London to be parabatai with our Lucie,” said Cecily. She looked nearly as young as Tessa, though since she wasn’t an immortal warlock, one wondered how she managed it. “I am pleased, it is high time more girls became parabatai. It has been a state monopolized by men for far too long.”"
"She almost didn’t want to ask, but it was better to know the truth. It was always better to know the truth."
" "[...]Perhaps we had begun to think ourselves invincible.”
“People are only invincible in books,” said Cordelia.
“I think you will find most of the time, not even then,” said Tessa."
" “My father always said that to panic before you have all the facts was to fight the enemy’s battle for him.” "
"Grace laughed lightly. “Nonsense! I know you mean well, James. You’re just in love with Cordelia.”
James was horrified. “I am fond of her, that is all. We are friends, as you and I are.”
“Oh?” Grace said. “And if she arrives here in Idris and tells you she has met the most wonderful man and they have had a whirlwind romance and now they are promised to each other? You would only congratulate her like you would any of your friends?”
“I would tell her she was too young to get married,” James said stiffly. The truth was that when he thought of Cordelia marrying someone else, it felt like being kicked in the heart. With a start, he realized that in his vague imaginings of the future Cordelia had always been there, a steady, welcome presence, a warm light in the dark of the unknown."
" “Do you think he’s in love?” Anna said. “People can be awful when they’re in love.” "
"She leaned forward, her focus on Cordelia. “Now, Cordelia Carstairs, tell me all your secrets.”
“I think I’d better not,” said Cordelia. “I don’t know you very well.”
" “I must be off,” he said. “There’s an orangery in Kensington Gardens that needs smashing. Ladies, lock up your outbuildings. James Herondale is in town and he has been slighted in love!” "
" “Cordelia, perhaps,” said Lucie. “She has been everywhere.” She frowned. “Is it selfishly awful to worry that all this business will delay our becoming parabatai? I feel I will be a better Shadowhunter when it is done. Were you not one, after you became parabatai with Uncle Jem?”
“A better Shadowhunter and a better man,” said Will. “All the best of me, I learned from Jem and your mother. All I want for you and Cordelia is to have what I had, a friendship that shall shape all your days. And never to be parted.”
"Lucie knew her parents had done great deeds that had become famous Nephilim stories, but they had suffered too much. Lucie had long ago decided that living in a story would be terribly uncomfortable. Far better to write them, and control the tale so it was never too sad or too scary, only just enough to be intriguing."
" “No one ever just wants to have tea,” said Anna. “Tea is always an excuse for a clandestine agenda.” "
" “What are you doing here?”
Cordelia was not sure such a rude question deserved an answer. “Having tea.”
His gaze scanned the room. His eyes were a most peculiar color, clear green in some lights, darker in others.
“I don’t see Anna,” he said, sounding astonished and a little suspicious, as if he suspected Cordelia of having hidden Anna in the teapot."
"Cordelia had thought a tattoo would be rather more like their Marks, but it reminded her of something else instead. It was ink, the way books and poems were made of ink, telling a permanent story"
" [...]“We won’t tell anyone. We swear it on Raziel’s name.”
“Except Cordelia,” said Lucie hurriedly. “She is to be my parabatai. I cannot hide things from her” "
" “We do not get to choose when in our lives we feel pain,” said Matthew. “It comes when it comes, and we try to remember, even though we cannot imagine a day when it will release its hold on us, that all pain fades. All misery passes. Humanity is drawn to light, not darkness.” "
"“Oh, no,” Cordelia said firmly. “You can’t go back in there.”
“I wouldn’t leave you,” he said simply, melting her heart"
" “It won’t work,” he said softly. “No one can follow me into the shadows, Math. Not even you.” "
" “‘Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.’ It’s a nice thought, isn’t it? From the book of James, too.” "
" “Matthew, you may speak however badly of yourself as you like, but it does not make it true. You decide the truth about yourself. No one else. And the choice about what kind of person you will be is yours alone.” "
"They were only talking, but it was as if their words were blades"
"Cordelia set her hand against a chair, upholstered in pale blue and the back carved with crossed swords, to hold herself steady.
“Nobody will believe it,” she said, dropping each word into the silence between them like stones into a pond. She saw him flinch. “When it comes to a woman’s reputation, if she is suspected, she is guilty. That is the way the world works. I knew they would believe I was guilty, and now, no matter what we say, they’ll never believe I was innocent. It’s done, James."
"She thought of what James had said about faerie fruit: that the more you had of it, the more you wanted, and the more you ached when it was gone. And yet, was not knowing what it was like to taste it not also a form of torment?"
"“The cruel will always spread rumors,” she said. “And others who take pleasure in that cruelty will believe them and spread them. But I believe that in the end, truth wins out. Besides,” she added with a smile, “the most interesting women are always the most whispered about.”