#silent

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Tessa reached to brush the damp hair from his forehead. He leaned into her touch, his eyes closing. “Jem—have you ever—” She hesitated. “Have you ever thought of ways to prolong your life that are not a cure for the drug?”   At that his eyelids flew open. “What do you mean?”   She thought of Will, on the floor of the attic, choking on holy water. “Becoming a vampire. You would live forever—”   He scrambled upright against the pillows of the bed. “Tessa, no. Don’t—you can’t think that way.”    “Is the thought of becoming a Downworlder truly so horrible to you?”   “Tessa …” He exhaled slowly. “I am a Shadowhunter. Nephilim. Like my parents before me. It is the heritage I claim, just as I claim my mother’s heritage as part of myself. It does not mean I hate my father. But I honor the gift they gave me, the blood of the Angel, the trust placed in me, the vows I have taken. Nor, I think, would I make a very good vampire. [redacted for spoilers] I would no longer be Will’s parabatai, no longer be welcome in the Institute. No, Tessa. I would rather die and be reborn and see the sun again, than live to the end of the world without daylight.”   “A Silent Brother, then,” she said.    His eyes softened slightly. “The path of Silent Brotherhood is not open to me.


Cassandra Clare


#silent-brothers #tessa-gray #life

I don't think..." then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter.


Lewis Carroll


#remaining-silent #reticence #silence #talking

Be aware of the high notes, of the blissful faces and their soft messages, and listen for the silent message of a highly decorated gift.


Dejan Stojanovic


#dejan-stojanovic #faces #gift #gifts #high-notes

It means, said Brother Jeremiah, The descent into Hell is easy.


Cassandra Clare


#city-of-bones #clary-fray #jace-wayland #silent-brothers #jace-wayland

I get even more nervous singing when everyone's fallen silent, but I really try to communicate the meaning of the lyrics, and there's people there listening to that, and if they're moved by it, then I'm moved as well.


Namie Amuro


#even #everyone #fallen #get #i

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.


Hannah Arendt


#also #bestows #completeness #death #ends

There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional cutout of himself.


Elizabeth Edwards


#did #eighteen #father #first #himself

Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.


Bodhidharma


#joy #path #remain #silently #those

History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.


Paul Eldridge


#footnotes #history #into #silent #transformation

I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.


Emily Carr


#digging #does #explain #grows #growth