“You know, when someone prefers their own brother over you, it isn't a confidence booster.”

—  Cassandra Clare, book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "You know, when someone prefers their own brother over you, it isn't a confidence booster." by Cassandra Clare?
Cassandra Clare photo
Cassandra Clare2041
American author 1973

Related quotes

“Confidence isn't always out front and screaming, 'Look at me, look at me.'Confidence can be sitting back for a moment and letting someone else take the lead when you need to. You don't always have to be showboating.”

Erika Jayne (1969) American singer, actress and television personality

Interview to Cosmopolitan (2016)

Stephen King photo

“But people love a hypocrite, you know——they recognize one of their own, and it always feels so good when someone gets caught with his pants down and his dick up and it isn't you.”

Stephen King book The Green Mile

Source: The Green Mile

Laurell K. Hamilton photo

“Confidence is a fine trait. Over-confidence isn't.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Obsidian Butterfly

Source: Obsidian Butterfly

Joe Satriani photo

“When you hear an instrumental song someone is singing over, you know right away it's wrong.”

Joe Satriani (1956) American guitar player

As quoted in BAM Magazine (6 April 1990).

Megan Whalen Turner photo

“It isn't an easy thing to give your loyalty to someone you don't know, especially when that person chooses to reveal nothing of himself.”

Megan Whalen Turner The King of Attolia

Source: The King of Attolia

“Summer. When the day is over
there's a heart a little colder;
someone said goodbye,
but you don't know why.
Somewhere there is someone keeping
all the tears they have been weeping,
someone said goodbye,
but you don't know why.”

Enya (1961) Irish singer, songwriter, and musician

Song lyrics, Amarantine (2005)

Ann Brashares photo

“When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.”

Ann Brashares book Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

Variant: Live, laugh, love.

When you can feel someone else's pain and joy as if it's your own, thats when you know you really love them - Tina Lowell
Source: Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

Ava Gardner photo

“Sex isn't all that important, but it is when you love someone very much.”

Ava Gardner (1922–1990) American actress

Source: Ava: My Story

“Writing is thinking on paper, or talking to someone on paper. If you can think clearly, or if you can talk to someone about the things you know and care about, you can write - with confidence and enjoyment.”

William Zinsser (1922–2015) writer, editor, journalist, literary critic, professor

Introduction, p. vii.
On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976)

Laurell K. Hamilton photo

“What do you do when you know you are breaking someone's heart, but to do anything else would break your own?”

Laurell K. Hamilton book A Lick of Frost

Source: A Lick of Frost

Related topics