Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.
It is more important to be pretty as a woman than to be fashionable.
Building a wardrobe is like building a circle of friends your whole life. . . . Your own beauty is to be yourself, but of course we need tools and accessories.
Personal style is accepting who you are.
Silence, nothing is better.
I am not allowed to be afraid. My mother made me like that. As a child, if I was afraid of the dark, she would lock me in the closet. Things like this. And she would talk about the time she spent in the concentration camp, but not about being afraid, only about the good side of it.
All women are strong. My mother survived Auschwitz, and fear wasn't an option when we were growing up. If we were afraid of the dark, we were put into the closet until we weren't.
So many of our lessons are learned, it would seem, too late to use on Earth.
A Shadowhunter I believe you know send for me—Tatiana Blackthorn? The lady used to be a Lightwood, did she not?" Magnus turned to Will. "And your sister Cecily married her brother. Gilbert. Gaston. I have a shocking memory for Lightwoods. " "I begged Cecily not to throw herself away on a Lightworm," Will muttered.
For complex reasons, our culture allows "economy" to mean only "money economy. " It equates success and even goodness with monetary profit because it lacks any other standard of measurement. I am no economist, but I venture to suggest that one of the laws of such an economy is that a farmer is worth more dead than alive. A second law is that anything diseased is more profitable than anything that is healthy. What is wrong with us contributes more to the "gross national product" than what is right with us.
If we can't alter the tide of events, at least we can be nearby with towels to mop up.