Brother Zachariah Quotes:

Did Brother Zachariah just steal our cat?

- Cassandra Clare

topic: Brother, Cat, Stealing, Brother Zachariah

Being a Silent Brother is life, Clary Fray. But if you mean I remember my life before the Brotherhood, I do. Clary took a deep breath. “Were you ever in love? Before the Brotherhood? Was there ever anyone you would have died for?” There was a long silence. Then: Two people, said Brother Zachariah. There are memories that time does not erase, Clarissa. Ask your friend Magnus Bane, if you do not believe me. Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.2269, Simon and Schuster

topic: Brother, Memories, Believe, City Of Lost Souls, Long Silence

Okayyyyy,” Isabelle said in a low voice, “When did Brother Zachariah get hot?

- Cassandra Clare

topic: Brother, Voice, Hot, Brother Zachariah

There are memories that time can't erase, Clarissa. Ask your friend, Magnus Bane, if you don't believe me. Forever does not make loss forgettable. Only bearable.

- Cassandra Clare

topic: Memories, Believe, Loss, Magnus Bane, Forgettable

A parabatai. Like he was. And Jace knew, too, what that faded rune meant: a parabatai whose other half was dead. He felt his sympathy leap toward Brother Zachariah, as he imagined himself without Alec, with only that faded rune to remind him where once he had been bonded to someone who knew all the best and worst parts of his soul.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Heavenly Fire”, p.232, Simon and Schuster

topic: Brother, Soul, Half, Parabatai, Runes

As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Heavenly Fire”, p.724, Simon and Schuster

topic: Memories, Loss, Long, Brother Zachariah

I know about parabatai,” said Magnus, an angry, dark undercurrent to his voice. “I’ve known parabatai so close they were almost the same person; do you know what happens, when one of them dies, to the one that’s left —?

- Cassandra Clare

topic: Dark, Voice, Magnus Bane, Parabatai, Brother Zachariah

When I am in the darkness, I want to think of it in the light, with you. - James Carstairs

- Cassandra Clare

topic: Thinking, Light, Darkness, James Carstairs, Heart Beating

I've known parabatai so close they were almost the same person; do you know what happens, when one of them dies, to the one that's left-

- Magnus

topic: Persons, Parabatai, Closeness, Sameness, Brother Zachariah

He played of love and loss and years of silence, words unsaid and vows unspoken, and all the spaces between his heart and theirs; and when he was done, and he'd set the violin back in its box, Will's eyes were closed, but Tessa's were full of tears.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1434, Simon and Schuster

topic: Heart, Eye, Loss, Jem Carstairs, Tessa Gray

Hello, Uncle Brother Zachariah," James said without opening his eyes. "I would say that I'm sorry to bother you, but I'm sure this is the most excitement you've had all year. Not so lively in the City of Bones, now is it?" "James!" Will snapped. "Don't talk to Jem like that." "As if I am not used to badly behaved Herondales, Brother Zachariah said, in the way Jem had always tried to make peace between Will and the world.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “The Midnight Heir”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

topic: Brother, Uncles, Sorry, Brother Zachariah

We spoke of how to say good-bye,” Jem said. “When Jonathan bid farewell to David, he said, ‘Go in peace, for as much as we have sworn, both of us, saying the Lord be between me and thee, forever.’ They did not see each other again, but they did not forget. So it will be with us. When I am Brother Zachariah, when I no longer see the world with my human eyes, I will still be in some part the Jem you knew, and I will see you with the eyes of my heart.

- Cassandra Clare

topic: Brother, Farewell, Heart, Jem Carstairs, Jem

The two are now bound inextricably. Should one die, the other will follow. No wepon in this world can wound only one of them

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

topic: Two, World, Should, Brother Zachariah