„What they had between them was still as fragile as a flickering candle flame, as delicate as eggshell – and he knew that if it shattered, if he somehow let it break and be destroyed, something inside him would shatter too, something that could never be fixed.“

— Cassandra Clare
„He can touch your soul. And there is a difference between having your heart break and having your soul shatter.“
— Cassandra Clare
„She looked up at him with a smile. The smile broke what was left of his resistance--shattered it. He had let the walls down when he'd thought she was gone, and there was no time to build them back up.“
— Cassandra Clare
„He had to choose between something he had become accustomed to and something he wanted to have.“
— Paulo Coelho