Quote by Cassandra Clare

The witchlight made his skin paler, his eyes more intently blue. They were the color of the water in the North Atlantic, where the ice drifted on its blue-black surface like the snow clinging to the dark glass pane of a window.

The witchlight made his skin paler, his eyes more intently b

Summary

This quote describes the mesmerizing effect of a witchlight on a person's physical appearance. The mention of the witchlight making the protagonist's skin paler and his eyes intensely blue creates an otherworldly aura around him. The comparison to the color of water in the North Atlantic and the image of drifting ice and snow on a window further emphasizes the enchanting and ethereal nature of the witchlight's glow.

Topics

Will Herondale Tessa Gray

By Cassandra Clare

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.

Books

Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.But no,

Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.But no, that is not quite accurate. There is one place where her absence comes locally home to me, and it is a place I can't avoid. I mean my own body. It had such a different importance while it was the body of H.'s lover. Now it's like an empty house.

Death Faith Loss Grief Grieving Stillbirth Babyloss

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Purpose

Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious li

Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life.

Life Man

With all his tumid boasts, he's like the sword-fish, who onl

With all his tumid boasts, he's like the sword-fish, who only wears his weapon in his mouth.

Speeches (oratory)

These are weighty secrets, and we must whisper them.

These are weighty secrets, and we must whisper them.

Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, Secrets

Wisdom

Our songs touch people, and take them back to a time when th

Our songs touch people, and take them back to a time when there was no threat of terrorism, when you didn't have to lock your doors and when Mom and Dad took care of everything.

Mom

Many candles can be kindled from one candle without diminish

Many candles can be kindled from one candle without diminishing it.

Teamwork

Truth must be sought at all costs, but separate isolated tru

Truth must be sought at all costs, but separate isolated truths will not do. Truth is like life; it has to be taken on its entirety or not at all. . . . We must welcome truth even if it reproaches and inconveniences us -- even if it appears in the place where we thought it could not be found.

Archbishop Fulton Sheen

Truth

The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face

The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth.

Music

I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old

I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old. I really didn't want to do it. But everyone had to do it so I didn't have a choice. A talent agent came and watched it and later gave me some work. It's funny because I'd always known that I wanted a movie career. I just didn't think that I would be in the movies.

Kristen Stewart

Funny

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

Leonard Bernstein