
“If you beat your head against the wall, it is your head that breaks and not the wall.”
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“If you beat your head against the wall, it is your head that breaks and not the wall.”
Jace and Clary, pg. 244
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)
Context: "I wish I could hate you. I want to hate you. I try to hate you. It would be so much easier if I did hate you. Sometimes I think I do hate you and then I see you and I-"
"And you what?"
"What do you think? Why should I tell you everything about how I feel when you never tell me anything. It's like banging my head on a wall, except at least if I were banging my head on a wall, I'd be able to make myself stop."
The Modern Prince and other Writings, quoting a letter to his sister
“It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.”
Source: The Member of the Wedding