“Living with hope is like rubbing up against a cheese grater. It keeps taking slices off you until there's so little left you just crumble.”
“How are you feeling?""Like someone massaged me with a cheese grater."-Clary & Simon, pg.297-”
“But it's just because the chances are all against you, just because there is so little hope, that life is sweet over here.”
“It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.”
“But death doesn't work like that. It doesn't care if someone loves you, doesn't want you to go. It just takes. It takes and it takes until eventually you have nothing left.”
“Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.”