“Jem leaned closer against the chair, staring into the fire. “Better it were my hands,” he said. Will shook his head. Exhaustion was muting the edges of everything in the room, blurring the flocked wallpaper into a single mass of dark color. “No. Not your hands. You need your hands for the violin. What do I need mine for?”
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“Not your parabatai any longer.”
“You are the Lightwoods — you are all that is left of the Lightwoods.”
“It's what's known as an origin myth. What happened to me? That's no myth.”
“It is such a letdown to rise from the dead and have your friends not recognize you.”
“Jesus is God's way of refusing to give up his dream for the world.”
“Get used to it. Life doesn't give, it takes. Anything worth having is worth fighting for.”