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Simon looked from one of them to the other, and shook his head. When did you two get so buddy-buddy? Last night it was all, 'I'm the most elite warrior!' ' No, I'm the most elite warrior!' And today you're playing Halo and giving each other props for good ideas.

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Trying to read his face. It was like a book written in a foreign language she'd studied all too briefly.

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Sebastian just smiled. I could hear your heart beating, he said softly. When you were watching me with Valentine. Did it bother you? That you seem to be dating my dad? Jace shrugged. "You're a little young for him, to be honest. What? For the first time since Jace had met him, Sebastian seemed flabbergasted.

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It was stupid to hope, she knew. But sometimes hope was all you had.

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Magnus's eyes gleamed. "He seems to like you. I saw him going for your hand out there like a squirrel diving for a peanut.

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Dios," he said, addressing himself to Jace. "What happened to you, brother? You look as if a pack of wolves tried to tear you apart." "That's either a shockingly good guess," said Jace, "or you heard about what happened.

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Piano keys jangled as he got to his feet. "Our own Sleeping Beauty. Who finally kissed you awake?" "Nobody. I woke up on my own." "Was there anyone with you?

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Whatever you are physically,' he said, 'Male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy — all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. Whatever the color, the shape, the design of the shade that conceals it, the flame inside the lamp remains the same. You are the flame.

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We may not be all that bright, Jace said, but at least we are alive.

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Your friend's poetry is terrible," he said. Clary blinked, caught momentarily off guard. "What?" "I said his poetry was terrible. It sounds like he ate a dictionary and started vomiting up words at random.

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As dull as Nate Gray is," Will said, "his head is not actually filled with gears, Henry. He's a human.

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She knew she could not be Jem for Will. No one could. But slowly the hollow places in his heart were filling in.

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His hands slipped from his throat, and he crashed to the ground like a tree falling. "Oh, dear," said Pangborn, gazing at the fallen body of his comrade with fastidious distaste. "How unpleasant.

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Lord, you're Irish," said Will. "Can you make things that don't have potatoes in them? We had an Irish cook once when I was a boy. Potato pie, potato custard, potatoes with potato sauce...

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There was an electric anger in his gaze, and a sort of challenge that made Simon long to hit him with something heavy. Like a pickup truck.

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Magnus had learned to be careful about giving his memories with his heart. When people died, it felt like all the pieces of yourself you had given to them went as well. It took so long, building yourself back up until you were whole again, and you were never entirely the same.

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I learned to play the instruments of war," he said, "and paint in blood.

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I can see why you like it here," he said, making a sweeping gesture that encompassed Kyle's collection of movie posters and science fiction books. "There's a thin layer of nerd all over everything." said Jace. "Thanks. I appreciate that." Simon gave Jace a hard look.

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I've met an attractive weasel or two in my time. He looks more like a rat.

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What they had between them was still as fragile as flickering candle flame, as delicate as eggshell - and he knew that if it shattered, if he somehow let it break and be destroyed, something inside him would shatter too, something that could never be fixed.

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Luke moved as silently as fog, while Maryse's heels sounded like gunshots on the marble floor. Clary wondered if Isabelle's propensity for unsuitable footwear was genetic.

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The more you try to crush your true nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop.

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You can't raise a child to believe the opposite of what you do.

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A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance covers?

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It was sometimes inconvenient to have the gold-green, slit-pupilled eyes of a cat, but this was usually easily hidden with a small glamour, and if not, well, there were quite a few ladies-and men-who didn't find it a drawback.

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Tessa is gone, and every moment she is gone is a knife ripping me apart from the inside.

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Maybe he's lonely. Sebastian can't be the greatest company." "We don't know that. He could be absolutely fantastic at Scrabble," said Magnus.

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Was it weird hearing from Jace?" asked Simon, his voice carefully neutral. "I mean, since you found out..." His voice trailed off. Yes?"said Clary, her voice sharply edged. "Since I found out what? That he's a killer transvestite who molests cats?" No wonder that cat of his hates everyone." Oh, shut up, Simon," Clary said crossly.

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Simon kept pace beside Clary for a few moments without speaking before he said, So what did I miss? Naked dancing ladies? Clary thought of the male faerie's torn-open ribs and shuddered. Nothing that pleasant.

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I choose to be with him for however many days or minutes we are granted, and to count myself blessed to have them.

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