Quotes About Witchlight

#1. There was something about the smell of books, the ink-and-paper-and-leather scent, the way dust in a library seemed to behave differently from the dust in any other room
it was golden in the light of the witchlight tapers, setting like pollen across the polished surfaces of long tables.

Cassandra Clare

#2. The witchlight cut into the shadows that seemed to hang in the room like a living thing. Emma wondered how big the cave really was, and how much of it was a shifting illusion.

Cassandra Clare

#3. Clary saw him take Mark's hand; he pressed his witchlight into the boy's palm, where it flickered, and then resumed its steady glow. 'Take this with you,' said Jace, 'for it can be dark in the land under the hill, and the years very long.

Cassandra Clare

#4. The witchlight made his skin paler, his eyes more intently blue. They were the color of the water in the North Atlantic, where the ice drifted on its blue-black surface like the snow clinging to the dark glass pane of a window.

Cassandra Clare

#5. You know, when most girls say they want a big rock, they don't mean, you know, literally a big rock."
"Very amusing, my sarcastic friend. It's not a rock, precisely. All Shadowhunters have a witchlight rune-stone.

Cassandra Clare

#6. No Child Left Behind has diminished [teachers'] sense of control of their own classroom, narrowed the focus of their jobs, and stifled pedagogical innovation.

James M. Lang

#7. I think the fans are going to expect a lot from me, as they should.

Wayne Rooney

#8. He was a portly man, aslop in coffee and gravid with Danish pastry.

Kurt Vonnegut

#9. Sometimes, I need to be high off the ground to keep grounded.

Inbar Lavi

#10. This was the problem with having walls so hard and high and unscalable, she supposed. When they came down, they crumbled completely, shattering into nothingness. She felt utterly defenseless right now.

L.J.Smith

#11. It almost doesn't matter what is real or unreal. It really matters what we choose to believe.

Judy Frankel

#12. I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.

Umberto Eco

#13. We know great art by its effect on us. If we are prepared to look without preconceptions, without defenses, without haste, then art will change us.

Wendy Beckett

#14. Christianity is the only major religion to have at its central event the humiliation of its God.

Bruce L. Shelley

#15. Our fascination with weather: its caprices and changes as an antidote to the eternal repetition of daily life; a helpful illusion of novelty

Derren Brown

#16. At my parents' house, I recently found a 1950 black-and-white snapshot of a chubby bespectacled warrior holding a three-and-a-half-foot freshly killed rattlesnake. The boy's smile is ecstatic.

Martin E.P. Seligman

#17. Solitude asks no pledges of anyone.

Don DeLillo

#18. The great object is to find the theory of the matter [of X-rays] before anyone else, for nearly every professor in Europe is now on the warpath.

Ernest Rutherford

#19. Individual identities and national destines were shaped by the tripod of history, geography, and philosophy.

Patrick Mendis