It wasn't that Julian didn't get angry. It was that he didn't let himself show it. People thought he was quiet, calm, but that was deceptive. Emma recalled something she read once: that volcanoes had the lushest green slopes, the loveliest and quietest aspect, because the fire that pulsed through them kept their earth from ever freezing. But when they erupted, they could rain down devastation for miles.
Emma Carstairs (Lord of Shadows; Cassandra Clare)










