“Now that the real and the imagined had collided, he wondered if she, like he, longed for the past, for the normal. He wondered if normalcy was something, like vision or silence, you didn't realize was precious until you lost it.”

—  Cassandra Clare, book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

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