“Don't make it sound like that. Like some ordinary sort of grief. It's not like that. They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite. Over. This is a fresh wound every day.”

—  Cassandra Clare, book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

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