Kit Quotes

“Making promises you can't keep is worse than making no promises at all.”
― Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness

“You think you can’t survive without Livvy, but you can. We will go through it together.” Kit’s face was cold; he
realized he was crying. “I love you, Ty. I love you.”
― Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness

“You should write a book," Matrick suggested.
Kit snorted. "Who wants to read the self-pitying lamentations of an old revenant?"
"There's your title right there," said Ganelon.”
― Nicholas Eames, Kings of the Wyld

“Yeah, I know, the Mars thing. I've been meaning to talk to you about that. When did you get the idea it would be cute to carve my dad's cell-phone number on a rock in the middle of Syrtis Major? He hates it when people call me on his phone."
Kit gave Nita a resigned look. "Sorry," he said, "I couldn't resist.”
― Diane Duane, Wizards at War

“...it was as if there was something about Ty Blackthorn that reached into him and untied all the careful knots of protection holding him together. He wondered if that was what people meant when they said they felt undone.”
― Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness

“I defy you, Shadowhunters. I mock you with my sugar cravings.”
― Cassandra Clare, Lord of Shadows

“I want you with me in any way you can be. You were there with me before I was born, Livvy. Without you, I just—there’s nothing if you aren’t there.”
There’s nothing if you aren’t there. Pity and despair ripped through Kit. He couldn’t hate Ty for this. But he
would never mean anything to Ty and never had: That much was clear.”
― Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness

“He let the shirt fall and grabbed a Tupperware container of cookies out of the fridge. Maybe he could frustrate the Shadowhunters by refusing to work out and sitting around eating carbs. I defy you, Shadowhunters, he thought, thumbing the top off the container and popping a cookie in his mouth. I mock you with my sugar cravings.”
― Cassandra Clare

“You raised Livvy for you, not for her or anyone else. You knew the damage it might do. You only thought of yourself. I wish— I wish I’d never known you—”
― Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness

“Kit," said a female voice, "what's wrong with the fridge? All the food's gone. No, wait, there's a really ugly alien in here disguised as a leaky lettuce. Hey, I guess I shouldn't be rude to it; it's a visitor. Welcome to our planet, Mr. Alien!"
This was followed by some muffled remark that Nita couldn't make out, possibly something Kit was saying. A moment later, Kit's sister Carmela's voice came out of Nita's refrigerator again. "Hola, Nita, are your phone bills getting too big? This is a weird way to deal with it...”
― Diane Duane, Wizard's Holiday

“Hawke didn't bother to respond to that - he'd eat the baby cat alpha for breakfast.”
― Nalini Singh

“Where the Blackthorns were was his home now.”
― Cassandra Clare, Lord of Shadows

“I have to give her what you did, don't I?" she said. "Enough of my personal information for Aurilelde to link to her own... so that the congruency between us is complete, and all this works out the way it should..."
Kit didn't say anything.
...But why wouldn't I? Nita thought. To make all this come out all right. She nodded to Irina. Irina nodded back, turned away.
And only then did it occur to Nita, with a shock, that this would mean it hadn't been Aurilelde who Kit had been so attracted to. It was her...”
― Diane Duane, A Wizard of Mars

“He was overwhelmed by the desire to drop down to his knees and grab Ty’s hands, and hold him the way he had on the rooftop in London when Livvy had been hurt.”
― Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness

“She and Prudence sat on a cool grassy carpet. A pale green curtain of branches just brushed the grasses and threw a filigree of shadows, as delicate as the wrought silver, on the child’s face.”
― Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond

“For Prudence was an entirely different child from the woebegone shrinking creature who had stood in the roadway outside the school. The tight little bud that was the real Prudence had steadily opened its petals in the sunshine of Kit’s friendship and Hannah’s gentle affection.”
― Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond

“Beside the plain blue homespun and white linen which modestly clothed Aunt Rachel and Judith, Kit’s flowered silk gave her the look of some vivid tropical bird lighted by mistake on a strange shore.”
― Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond

“In the dream, the height doesn't scare me at all. My fingers dance across the top of the railing like it's a set of piano keys.”
― Kit Frick, I Killed Zoe Spanos

“Ty stood at the water’s edge. He wouldn’t have wanted to be close to the noise and the lights and shouting, and Kit hated that even now he wanted to go down to the beach and draw Ty away, to protect him from anything and everything that might upset him.”
― Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness

“Instead she has on a sweater that looks soft, the kind when I was a kid I would stop and pet whenever my mom forced me to go shopping.”
― Julie Buxbaum, What to Say Next

“When she closed the door, she took the happiness with her.”
― Nalini Singh, Rock Redemption

“What’s the Nephilim motto again?”
“ ‘We are dust and shadows,’ ” said Ty, not looking up from his book.

“Some of us are very handsome dust,” Jace added”
― Cassandra Clare

“I’m looking down on the estate from above, and then I’m on the balcony, sitting all the way at the edge, legs pressed through the wooden rails and dangling down, down in the night. In
the dream, the height doesn’t scare me at all. My fingers dance across the top of the railing like it’s a set of piano keys.”
― Kit Frick, I Killed Zoe Spanos

“Maybe it was only grief, after all, bubbling to the surface in all its ugly trappings—grief like a gaping wound for a daughter who is gone and likely not coming home again.”
― Kit Frick, I Killed Zoe Spanos

“What kind of crazy person is going to donate their COVID-19 survival kit to the hospital?”
― Steven Magee

“There are no parents, no lawyers. The girl’s father is unreachable, has been unreachable for years.”
― Kit Frick, I Killed Zoe Spanos

“NO!" came his scream from beyond the wall of trees, hating, raging, desperate. But Nita felt no fear. It was as it had been in the beginning; all his no's had never been able to stand against life's I Am.”
― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard

“Oh, I can keep up.” He sounded like he was back to his usual self. “We could run all the way to Denver, and I’d still keep up. In fact, I could run even faster than you, much faster, but I don’t want to get ahead of the handler.”
“Hugh.” She gave him a sharp look, knowing why Theo always seemed to be at the end of his patience.”
― Katie Ruggle, Through the Fire

“If you keep this up, I’m going to have to race you, and we’ll both lose, because I’ll be puking and you’ll be limping and Theo will yell at us.”
― Katie Ruggle, Through the Fire

“Kit blinked. Theo’s girlfriend and Hugh’s girlfriend were having an affair? This small-town policing had a lot more drama than she’d expected.”
― Katie Ruggle, Through the Fire