beautiful cataclysm

Art by @cassandrajean

From left to right -> Jace, Clary and Simon

tmi gang for barbie (2023) - art by cassandra jean

“Fuck off, Devon.”

Wrath: “You’re lucky we came at all.”

Lust:

"I asked him what moya zvezdochka meant. He said it meant, my little star."

"He looked at the dessert in my hands as though he’d never tried sugar before. He nodded toward it. “Chocolate?” “Arsenic.” “My favorite."

"How could I say every strand was mine any clearer than washing it every goddamn night?"

"Would you visit my grave if I died?” His eyes grew dark. “I’d die before you were ever in a grave, malyshka.” I loved his possessive side. And I loved his dark side, too."

"Do you eat?” He raised a brow, consuming that glass of green yuck in one drink. “Like, solids? Or do you blend all the children’s souls beforehand?"

"What if someone arrests me while you’re in the bathroom?” “I’d bail you out.” “If you couldn’t?” “I’d be locked up beside you."

"I’m going to die,” I choked out, not able to drag a deep enough breath into my lungs. “Never, malyshka.” It was soft and vehement. “Come here."

"You’ve got to learn how to howl, malyshka. To tell your demons to fuck off. We all know you have it in you; you tell me to enough. And unlike your demons”—his voice darkened—“I can actually bite you."

"You blushed for him,” he growled. “You really shouldn’t have done that, Gianna. You have no idea what you’ve just unleashed."

"Say something in Russian.” “Ty samaya krasivaya zhenshchina kotoruyu ya kogda-libo videl.” “What did you say?” “You’re annoying."

"I took the tumbler from his hand and stole a sip. The vodka in his glass always tasted better than any other."

"He’d never looked at me this way, with such a soft, consuming desire in his eyes, like he’d never seen a woman before. Like I was everything. It terrified me."

"How about because I love you, Gianna? Because I think I have since the moment I saw you? Because if you weren’t in this world anymore, I would find a way to take myself out of it?” My heart stopped. Went cold. And then lit with fire."

"My attention caught on something. I dropped my gaze to his grip on me, to the elastic band on his wrist. “What is . . .?” I trailed off when I realized what it was. And only because I’d worn the same wide-banded black hair ties since I could remember. My heart picked up as the memory came back, of him slipping that hair tie into his pocket while I was naked in his bed three years before. The surprise hit me so hard I went on the offensive. “That’s mine,” I accused, like it was something important he’d stolen from me. I reached for it as if to take it back, but he stopped me by grabbing that wrist, too. “It’s mine now."

Nico Russo

- “He had something I wanted.”

- “I’ll never hurt you. But if I find out you’ve touched another man, there is nothing in this world that can save him.”

- “Hit a woman in front of me and you won’t be alive to do it again.”

- “That girl that just came in here? Wrong girl, David.”

- “The cashier groped her. So I burned down his place of business… and maybe him.”

- “She was supposed to be wallpaper, but I couldn’t stop my gaze from finding her whenever she was in the room.”

- “Nico, what if the Three Fates were real and I’d been destined for another?”

“I guess I’d have to find those Fates and burn them to the ground.”

- “Why did you kill your cousin?”

“He had a gun to your head.”

- “You’re enough for me.”

- “If perfection had a face, a body, and a voice—this girl would be it.”

- “Tough shit. If I’d asked my wife to marry me, she would have said no. So, guess what? I didn’t fucking ask her.”

Christian Allister

- “Ty samaya krasivaya zhenshchina kotoruyu ya kogda-libo videl (you are the most beautiful woman I have ever seen).”

- “Malyshka.”

- “How about because I love you, Gianna? Because I think I have since the moment I saw you? Because if you weren’t in this world anymore, I would find a way to take myself out of it?”

- “I’ve thought about you so much, you’re mine now. You’re lucky you didn’t let him touch you, Gianna, because I really don’t like it when people touch my things.”

- “Why did you kiss me?”

“I wanted to know what you tasted like.”

“And what do I taste like?”

“Kak moya (like mine).”

- “Because you’re the only woman who’s ever tempted me. Because you love it. Because every part of you is mine.”

- “I notice everything you do, malyshka.”

- “Chocolate?”

“Arsenic.”

“My favorite.”

- “I’m glad to see you remember, Malyshka, because there is nothing I have ever forgotten about you.”

- “I wanted—needed—to be different than the other men in her life.”

Ronan Markov

- “I’ll give you a head start.”

- “You pull a trigger on me, and I can’t even leave you out in the cold for fifteen fucking minutes. So you tell me, Mila, who cares more here?”

- “Because you’re so sweet, you glow. And I’ll kill anyone who tries to take that light from you.”

- “Kotyonok.”

- “The moonlight loved her. But not as much as my shadows.”

- “If she dies, you die, too.”

- “I love you. So much that I can’t even think when you’re away from me.”

- “Only two have touched me… that way.”

“Dvoye mertvetsov (two dead men).”

“I’m not going to tell you stuff if you’re going to kill people because of it.”

“Fine, they can live.”

- “You don’t get to sacrifice yourself for me. You DON’T get to die for me, kotyonok. If anyone dies between us, it will be ME. Do you understand?”

Me everytime Adam calls Olive "sweetheart":