"We live and breathe words. It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could never love anyone, never be loved by anyone, again. It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone." My favorite book quote is a quote about books. I am not sure how many people out there are familiar with this quote, but it is pretty popular within Cassandra Clare's following. Cassandra Clare is the author of the Shadowhunter Chronicles and Magisterium, the author of the character who said this. The character who said this, William Herondale, in The Infernal Devices, was "cursed" and believed that everyone who loved him would die. He extracted himself from his family and ran away to people who learned to love him even though he made himself as horrible as possible. He was telling the girl that he is in love with that books kept him from doing something that he'd eventually regret. Later in the tr