“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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