“I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silences will not protect you.... What are the words you do not yet have? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence? We have been socialized to respect fear more than our own need for language."I began to ask each time: "What's the worst that could happen to me if I tell this truth?" Unlike women in other countries, our breaking silence is unlikely to have us jailed, "disappeared" or run off the road at night. Our speaking out will irritate some people, get us called bitchy or hypersensitive and disrupt some dinner parties. And then our speaking out will permit other women to speak, until laws are changed and lives are saved and the world is altered forever.Next time, ask: What's the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare. Once you start to speak, people will yell at you. They will interrupt you, put you down and suggest it's personal. And the world won't end.And the speaking will get easier and easier. And you will find you have fallen in love with your own vision, which you may never have realized you had. And you will lose some friends and lovers, and realize you don't miss them. And new ones will find you and cherish you. And you will still flirt and paint your nails, dress up and party, because, as I think Emma Goldman said, "If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution." And at last you'll know with surpassing certainty that only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth. And that is not speaking.”
―
Audre Lorde
“Lex malla, lex nulla,” said Julian with a regretful wave of his hand. It was the Blackthorn family motto: A bad law is no law.“I wonder what other family mottoes are,” Emma mused. “Do you know any?”“The Lightwood family motto is ‘We mean well.’ ”“Very funny.”Julian looked over at her. “No, really, it actually is.”“Seriously? So what’s the Herondale family motto? ‘Chiseled but angsty’?”He shrugged. ‘If you don’t know what your last name is, it’s probably Herondale’?”Emma burst out laughing. “What about Carstairs?” she asked, tapping Cortana. “ ‘We have a sword’? ‘Blunt instruments are for losers’?”“Morgenstern,” offered Julian. “ ‘When in doubt, start a war’?” ― Cassandra Clare, Lord of Shadows
“And if we don't have Energy runes, we'll have to get our energy the old-fashioned way."Mark looked puzzled. "Drugs?""Chocolate," Emma said. "I brought chocolate. Mark, where do you even come up with these things?"Mark smiled crookedly, shrugging one shoulder. "Faerie humor?” ― Cassandra Clare, Lord of Shadows
“I know you have nothing to worry about. I wasn't in love with Mark. I'll never be in love with anyone again who isn't you.” ― Cassandra Clare, Lord of Shadows
“You could sketch me,” said Emma. She flung herself down onto her seat, leaning her head on her hand. “ ‘Draw me like one of your French girls.’ ”Julian grinned. “I hate that movie,” he said. “You know I do.”Emma sat up indignantly. “The first time we watched Titanic, you cried.”“I had seasonal allergies,” Jules said.” ― Cassandra Clare, Lord of Shadows
“He caught her by the wrist, brought her hand to his bare chest. Splayed her fingers over his heart. It beat against her palm, like a fist punching its way through his sternum. 'Break my heart,' he said. 'Break it in pieces. I give you permission.” ― Cassandra Clare, Lord of Shadows
“Break my heart, he said. "Break it in pieces. I give you my permission.” ― Cassandra Clare, Lord of Shadows
“I couldn't keep a fish alive," she said. "I kill plants just by looking at them.""I suspect I would have the same problem," Mark said, eyeing the fish. "It is too bad - I was going to name it Magnus, because it has sparkly scales."At that, Cristina giggled. Magnus Bane was the High Warlock of Brooklyn, and he had a penchant for glitter."I suppose I had better let him go free," Mark said. Before anyone could say anything, he made his way to the railing of the pier and emptied the bag, fish and all, into the sea."Does anyone want to tell him that goldfish are freshwater fish and can't survive in the ocean?" said Julian quietly. "Not really," said Cristina. "Did he just kill Magnus?" Emma asked, but before Julian could answer, Mark whirled around.” ― Cassandra Clare, Lord of Shadows
“Julian: “Wikipedia knows about everything. It might be run by warlocks.”Emma: “You think that’s what they do all day in the Spiral Labyrinth? Run Wikipedia?”Julian: “I admit it seems like a letdown.” ― Cassandra Clare, Lord of Shadows
“Once you start to speak, people will yell at you. They will interrupt you, put you down and suggest it’s personal. And the world won’t end.And the speaking will get easier and easier. And you will find you have fallen in love with your own vision, which you may never have realized you had. And you will lose some friends and lovers, and realize you don’t miss them. And new ones will find you and cherish you. And you will still flirt and paint your nails, dress up and party, because, as I think Emma Goldman said, “If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution.” And at last you’ll know with surpassing certainty that only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth. And that is not speaking.” ― Audre Lorde
“I am so ready to hunt down those tiny adorable creatures and give them what for,” said Emma. “SO READY.”“Emma . . .”“I may even tie bows on their heads.”“We have to interrogate them.”“Can I get a selfie with one of them first?”“Eat your toast, Emma.” ― Cassandra Clare, Lord of Shadows
“76. David Hume – Treatise on Human Nature; Essays Moral and Political; An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding77. Jean-Jacques Rousseau – On the Origin of Inequality; On the Political Economy; Emile – or, On Education, The Social Contract78. Laurence Sterne – Tristram Shandy; A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy79. Adam Smith – The Theory of Moral Sentiments; The Wealth of Nations80. Immanuel Kant – Critique of Pure Reason; Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals; Critique of Practical Reason; The Science of Right; Critique of Judgment; Perpetual Peace81. Edward Gibbon – The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; Autobiography82. James Boswell – Journal; Life of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D.83. Antoine Laurent Lavoisier – Traité Élémentaire de Chimie (Elements of Chemistry)84. Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison – Federalist Papers85. Jeremy Bentham – Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation; Theory of Fictions86. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Faust; Poetry and Truth87. Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier – Analytical Theory of Heat88. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel – Phenomenology of Spirit; Philosophy of Right; Lectures on the Philosophy of History89. William Wordsworth – Poems90. Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Poems; Biographia Literaria91. Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice; Emma92. Carl von Clausewitz – On War93. Stendhal – The Red and the Black; The Charterhouse of Parma; On Love94. Lord Byron – Don Juan95. Arthur Schopenhauer – Studies in Pessimism96. Michael Faraday – Chemical History of a Candle; Experimental Researches in Electricity97. Charles Lyell – Principles of Geology98. Auguste Comte – The Positive Philosophy99. Honoré de Balzac – Père Goriot; Eugenie Grandet100. Ralph Waldo Emerson – Representative Men; Essays; Journal101. Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Scarlet Letter102. Alexis de Tocqueville – Democracy in America103. John Stuart Mill – A System of Logic; On Liberty; Representative Government; Utilitarianism; The Subjection of Women; Autobiography104. Charles Darwin – The Origin of Species; The Descent of Man; Autobiography105. Charles Dickens – Pickwick Papers; David Copperfield; Hard Times106. Claude Bernard – Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine107. Henry David Thoreau – Civil Disobedience; Walden108. Karl Marx – Capital; Communist Manifesto109. George Eliot – Adam Bede; Middlemarch110. Herman Melville – Moby-Dick; Billy Budd111. Fyodor Dostoevsky – Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; The Brothers Karamazov112. Gustave Flaubert – Madame Bovary; Three Stories113. Henrik Ibsen – Plays114. Leo Tolstoy – War and Peace; Anna Karenina; What is Art?; Twenty-Three Tales115. Mark Twain – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; The Mysterious Stranger116. William James – The Principles of Psychology; The Varieties of Religious Experience; Pragmatism; Essays in Radical Empiricism117. Henry James – The American; The Ambassadors118. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche – Thus Spoke Zarathustra; Beyond Good and Evil; The Genealogy of Morals;The Will to Power119. Jules Henri Poincaré – Science and Hypothesis; Science and Method120. Sigmund Freud – The Interpretation of Dreams; Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis; Civilization and Its Discontents; New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis121. George Bernard Shaw – Plays and Prefaces” ― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
“It’s weird, how you have no idea how far you’ve come until suddenly you can’t find the way back.” ― Emma Lord, Tweet Cute
“Whoa, sexy weirdness,” said Emma. “This may be more sexy weirdness than I can handle.”“It is not weird!”“It is,” said Emma. “You are headed for a faerie threesome. Or some kind of war.”“Emma!”“Hot faerie threesome,” said Emma cheerfully. “I can say I knew you when.” ― Cassandra Clare, Lord of Shadows
“What's the Nephilim motto again?""'We are dust and shadows,'" said Ty, not looking up from his book."Some of us are very handsome dust," Jace added, as the door flew open and Clary stuck her head in."Come to the library," she announced. "The tentacle is starting to dissolve.""You drive me wild with your sexy talk," said Jace, pulling on his gear jacket."Adults," said Kit, with some disgust, and stalked out of the room. To Emma's amusement, Ty and Livvy were instantly on their feet, following him.” ― Cassandra Clare, Lord of Shadows
“Jules: Why are you on the floor?Emma: I've heard roling out of bed in the morning helps you build up resistance to surprise attacks.Jules: Oh yeah? What does screaming "holy crap!" do?Emma: That part's optional.” ― Cassandra Clare, Lord of Shadows
“You can't just casually tell someone you carry caramel sauce around and walk away like thats a normal thing” ― Emma Lord, Tweet Cute
“Mark: “A strange evening, forsooth,” he said.Emma: “Don’t you forsooth me.” ― Cassandra Clare, Lord of Shadows
“A stolen day. The kind of day that ends too fast but stays with you much longer.” ― Emma Lord, Tweet Cute
“Lex malla, lex nulla,” said Julian with a regretful wave of his hand. It was the Blackthorn family motto: A bad law is no law.“I wonder what other family mottoes are,” Emma mused. “Do you know any?”“The Lightwood family motto is ‘We mean well.’ ”“Very funny.”Julian looked over at her. “No, really, it actually is.”“Seriously? So what’s the Herondale family motto? ‘Chiseled but angsty’?”He shrugged. ‘If you don’t know what your last name is, it’s probably Herondale’?”Emma burst out laughing. “What about Carstairs?” she asked, tapping Cortana. “ ‘We have a sword’? ‘Blunt instruments are for losers’?”“Morgenstern,” offered Julian. “ ‘When in doubt, start a war’?” ― Cassandra Clare, Lord of Shadows
“And if we don't have Energy runes, we'll have to get our energy the old-fashioned way."Mark looked puzzled. "Drugs?""Chocolate," Emma said. "I brought chocolate. Mark, where do you even come up with these things?"Mark smiled crookedly, shrugging one shoulder. "Faerie humor?” ― Cassandra Clare, Lord of Shadows
“I know you have nothing to worry about. I wasn't in love with Mark. I'll never be in love with anyone again who isn't you.” ― Cassandra Clare, Lord of Shadows
“You could sketch me,” said Emma. She flung herself down onto her seat, leaning her head on her hand. “ ‘Draw me like one of your French girls.’ ”Julian grinned. “I hate that movie,” he said. “You know I do.”Emma sat up indignantly. “The first time we watched Titanic, you cried.”“I had seasonal allergies,” Jules said.” ― Cassandra Clare, Lord of Shadows
“He caught her by the wrist, brought her hand to his bare chest. Splayed her fingers over his heart. It beat against her palm, like a fist punching its way through his sternum. 'Break my heart,' he said. 'Break it in pieces. I give you permission.” ― Cassandra Clare, Lord of Shadows
“Break my heart, he said. "Break it in pieces. I give you my permission.” ― Cassandra Clare, Lord of Shadows
“I couldn't keep a fish alive," she said. "I kill plants just by looking at them.""I suspect I would have the same problem," Mark said, eyeing the fish. "It is too bad - I was going to name it Magnus, because it has sparkly scales."At that, Cristina giggled. Magnus Bane was the High Warlock of Brooklyn, and he had a penchant for glitter."I suppose I had better let him go free," Mark said. Before anyone could say anything, he made his way to the railing of the pier and emptied the bag, fish and all, into the sea."Does anyone want to tell him that goldfish are freshwater fish and can't survive in the ocean?" said Julian quietly. "Not really," said Cristina. "Did he just kill Magnus?" Emma asked, but before Julian could answer, Mark whirled around.” ― Cassandra Clare, Lord of Shadows
“Julian: “Wikipedia knows about everything. It might be run by warlocks.”Emma: “You think that’s what they do all day in the Spiral Labyrinth? Run Wikipedia?”Julian: “I admit it seems like a letdown.” ― Cassandra Clare, Lord of Shadows
“Once you start to speak, people will yell at you. They will interrupt you, put you down and suggest it’s personal. And the world won’t end.And the speaking will get easier and easier. And you will find you have fallen in love with your own vision, which you may never have realized you had. And you will lose some friends and lovers, and realize you don’t miss them. And new ones will find you and cherish you. And you will still flirt and paint your nails, dress up and party, because, as I think Emma Goldman said, “If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution.” And at last you’ll know with surpassing certainty that only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth. And that is not speaking.” ― Audre Lorde
“I am so ready to hunt down those tiny adorable creatures and give them what for,” said Emma. “SO READY.”“Emma . . .”“I may even tie bows on their heads.”“We have to interrogate them.”“Can I get a selfie with one of them first?”“Eat your toast, Emma.” ― Cassandra Clare, Lord of Shadows
“76. David Hume – Treatise on Human Nature; Essays Moral and Political; An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding77. Jean-Jacques Rousseau – On the Origin of Inequality; On the Political Economy; Emile – or, On Education, The Social Contract78. Laurence Sterne – Tristram Shandy; A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy79. Adam Smith – The Theory of Moral Sentiments; The Wealth of Nations80. Immanuel Kant – Critique of Pure Reason; Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals; Critique of Practical Reason; The Science of Right; Critique of Judgment; Perpetual Peace81. Edward Gibbon – The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; Autobiography82. James Boswell – Journal; Life of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D.83. Antoine Laurent Lavoisier – Traité Élémentaire de Chimie (Elements of Chemistry)84. Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison – Federalist Papers85. Jeremy Bentham – Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation; Theory of Fictions86. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Faust; Poetry and Truth87. Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier – Analytical Theory of Heat88. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel – Phenomenology of Spirit; Philosophy of Right; Lectures on the Philosophy of History89. William Wordsworth – Poems90. Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Poems; Biographia Literaria91. Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice; Emma92. Carl von Clausewitz – On War93. Stendhal – The Red and the Black; The Charterhouse of Parma; On Love94. Lord Byron – Don Juan95. Arthur Schopenhauer – Studies in Pessimism96. Michael Faraday – Chemical History of a Candle; Experimental Researches in Electricity97. Charles Lyell – Principles of Geology98. Auguste Comte – The Positive Philosophy99. Honoré de Balzac – Père Goriot; Eugenie Grandet100. Ralph Waldo Emerson – Representative Men; Essays; Journal101. Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Scarlet Letter102. Alexis de Tocqueville – Democracy in America103. John Stuart Mill – A System of Logic; On Liberty; Representative Government; Utilitarianism; The Subjection of Women; Autobiography104. Charles Darwin – The Origin of Species; The Descent of Man; Autobiography105. Charles Dickens – Pickwick Papers; David Copperfield; Hard Times106. Claude Bernard – Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine107. Henry David Thoreau – Civil Disobedience; Walden108. Karl Marx – Capital; Communist Manifesto109. George Eliot – Adam Bede; Middlemarch110. Herman Melville – Moby-Dick; Billy Budd111. Fyodor Dostoevsky – Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; The Brothers Karamazov112. Gustave Flaubert – Madame Bovary; Three Stories113. Henrik Ibsen – Plays114. Leo Tolstoy – War and Peace; Anna Karenina; What is Art?; Twenty-Three Tales115. Mark Twain – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; The Mysterious Stranger116. William James – The Principles of Psychology; The Varieties of Religious Experience; Pragmatism; Essays in Radical Empiricism117. Henry James – The American; The Ambassadors118. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche – Thus Spoke Zarathustra; Beyond Good and Evil; The Genealogy of Morals;The Will to Power119. Jules Henri Poincaré – Science and Hypothesis; Science and Method120. Sigmund Freud – The Interpretation of Dreams; Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis; Civilization and Its Discontents; New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis121. George Bernard Shaw – Plays and Prefaces” ― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
“It’s weird, how you have no idea how far you’ve come until suddenly you can’t find the way back.” ― Emma Lord, Tweet Cute
“Whoa, sexy weirdness,” said Emma. “This may be more sexy weirdness than I can handle.”“It is not weird!”“It is,” said Emma. “You are headed for a faerie threesome. Or some kind of war.”“Emma!”“Hot faerie threesome,” said Emma cheerfully. “I can say I knew you when.” ― Cassandra Clare, Lord of Shadows
“What's the Nephilim motto again?""'We are dust and shadows,'" said Ty, not looking up from his book."Some of us are very handsome dust," Jace added, as the door flew open and Clary stuck her head in."Come to the library," she announced. "The tentacle is starting to dissolve.""You drive me wild with your sexy talk," said Jace, pulling on his gear jacket."Adults," said Kit, with some disgust, and stalked out of the room. To Emma's amusement, Ty and Livvy were instantly on their feet, following him.” ― Cassandra Clare, Lord of Shadows
“Jules: Why are you on the floor?Emma: I've heard roling out of bed in the morning helps you build up resistance to surprise attacks.Jules: Oh yeah? What does screaming "holy crap!" do?Emma: That part's optional.” ― Cassandra Clare, Lord of Shadows
“You can't just casually tell someone you carry caramel sauce around and walk away like thats a normal thing” ― Emma Lord, Tweet Cute
“Mark: “A strange evening, forsooth,” he said.Emma: “Don’t you forsooth me.” ― Cassandra Clare, Lord of Shadows
“A stolen day. The kind of day that ends too fast but stays with you much longer.” ― Emma Lord, Tweet Cute
