“What I love I destroy. What I destroy, I love.”
Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer
Lews Therin Telamon
(15 October 1994)
“To love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be destroyed.”
— Cassandra Clare, book City of Bones
Jace to Clary, pg. 206
Variant: to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)
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