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I have a fetish for damsels in distress. Don't be sexist. Not at all. My services are also available to gentlemen in distress. It's an equal opportunity fetish.

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He cut her off with brutal precision. "And one last thing." His eyes flicked toward the door, through which Jace, Alec, and Isabelle had disappeared. "Keep in mind that when your mother fled from the Shadow World, it wasn't the monsters she was hiding from. Not the warlocks, the wolf-men, the Fair Folk, not even the demons themselves. It was them. It was the Shadowhunters.

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We are not our parents, Gabriel. We do not have to carry the burden of their choices or their sins.

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And so what? I just killed a demon in my own house, and you're going to be a dickhead about it because I'm not some spoiled-rotten rich brat like you and your sister?" Alec looked astonished. "What did you call me?

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I shall charm him with such force that when I am done, he will be left lying limply on the ground, trying to remember his own name.

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Magnus didn't really want this kind of thing this early in the morning - this talk of aching memories and wanting to forget. This conversation needed to end, now.

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Clary? Jace tilted his head to the side, studying her face. You do—you still love me, don't you? I love Jace Lightwood, she said. I don't know who you are.

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He tried to learn seductive phrases in all languages, but the only Swedish he had ever really needed was, "Do you serve anything aside from pickled fish?" and "If you wrap me in furs, I can pretend to be your little fuzzy bear.

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And in addition to its practical uses, it would seem to work for cosmetic purposes. This powder would make my very skin glimmer for eternity." Henry frowned. "Not eternity," he said, but then he brightened. "But I could make you up another batch whenever you please!" "I could shine at will!" Magnus grinned at Henry.

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You're the first Shadowhunter I've ever met." That's too bad, said Jace, since all the others you meet from now on will be a terrible letdown.

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I'd rather have you in my life even as a brother than not at all—

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It would hardly benefit me to hold anything back unnecessarily, when I know what I'm asking. For you to find a needle in—God, not even a haystack. A needle in a tower full of other needles.

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I'm all right,' Jace protested, but his hand gripped Alec's sleeve tightly. 'I can stand.' It looks to me like you're using a wall to prop you up. That's not my definition of "standing."' It's leaning,' Jace told him. 'Leaning comes right before standing.

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Still I pictured having you for fifty, sixty more years. I thought I might be ready then to let you go. But it's you, and I realize now that I won't be anymore ready to lose you then than I am right now. Which is not at all.

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How rude. Many who have gazed upon me have compared the experience to gazing at the radiance of the sun." Jem still had his eyes closed. "If they mean it gives you a headache, they aren't wrong.

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He grinned. I was trying to remember all the deadly sins the other day, he said. Greed, envy, gluttony, irony, pedantry… I'm pretty sure irony isn't a deadly sin. I'm pretty sure it is. Lust, she said. Lust is a deadly sin. And spanking. I think that falls under lust. I think it should have its own category, said Jace. Greed, envy, gluttony, irony, pedantry, lust, and spanking.

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Why does it take girls so long to shower? he demanded. Mortal girls, Shadowhunters, female warlocks, you're all the same. I'm not getting any younger waiting out here.
Magnus to Clary

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Jace, she said. Why are you doing this to me? Because you're lying to me. And you're lying to yourself. Jace's eyes were blazing, and even though his hands were stuffed into his pockets, she could see that they were knotted into fists.

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Will has always been the brighter burning star, the one to catch attention — but Jem is a steady flame, unwavering and honest. He could make you happy.

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And maybe you should stop pitying yourself, he said. Most people are lucky to have even one great love in their life. You have found two.

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She saw Valentine's eyes as the sword hurtled toward her; it seemed like eons, though it could only have been a split second. She saw that he could stop the blow if he wanted. Saw that he knew it might well strike her if he didn't. Saw that he was going to do it anyway.

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Our hearts, they need a mirror, Tessa. We see our better selves in the eyes of those who love us. And there is a beauty that brevity alone provides. He dropped his gaze, then raised it to hers. I would give you everything of myself, he said. I would give you more in two weeks than most men would give you in a lifetime.

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I tell myself he's better than he makes himself out to be, but, Tessa, what if he isn't?

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Why don't we talk about your love life? Clary countered. "What about you and Alec?" "Alec refuses to acknowledge that we have a relationship, and so I refuse to acknowledge him. He sent me a fire message asking for a favor the other day. It was addressed to 'Warlock Bane' as if I were a perfect stranger. He's still hung up on Jace, I think, though that relationship will never go anywhere. A problem I imagine you know nothing about...

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There was human goodness in the world, she thought-all caught up with desires and dreams, regrets and bitterness, resentments and power, but it was there.

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Something inside Clary cracked and broke, and words came pouring out. 'What do you want me to tell you? The truth? The truth is that I love Simon like I should love you, and I wish he was my brother and you weren't, but I can't do anything about that and neither can you!

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Patience, grasshopper," said Maia. "Good things come to those who wait." "I always thought that was 'Good things come to those who do the wave,'" said Simon. "No wonder I've been so confused all my life.

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He put his arms about himself as if he were cold. "I do not know who to be without him.

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Isabelle tugged her tank top back down and glared at her brother. You don't knock now? It's my bedroom! Alec spluttered.

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You disappear so completely into your head sometimes," he said. "I wish I could follow you.

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