"The sea wears down cliffs, Emma, and turns them into sand; so love wears us down and breaks our defenses. You only do not know how much it means, to have people who will fight for you when it goes wrong."
-The Dark Artifices by Cassandra Clare
this exchange is so.........kit’s like well maybe i dont want to live with your weird as hell brother and julian immediately considers pulling the wheel and murdering this child because he thinks he’s being ableist towards his baby brother only for kit to be like what? i meant the naked guy who speaks like a 15th century poet why are YOU being ableist and julian goes whats ableist and kit just thinks to himself ohhhh. ohhh these people are far more fucked up than i could ever begin to understand
“Emma looked at the ocean and felt what she always felt; a mixture of yearning and terror, a desire to throw herself into the green cold that was like the desire to drive too fast, jump too high, leap into battle unarmed.”
Emma Carstairs - The Dark Artifices