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My mother always told me if I rode a motorcycle with a boy, she'd kill me."... She couldn't hear him laugh, but she felt his body shake. "She wouldn't say that if she knew me," he called back to her confidently. "I'm an excellent driver."

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You should see his older brother, said Jem. Makes Gabriel look sweeter than gingerbread. Hates Will even more thanGabriel, too, if that's possible.

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No one blames her." "That never matters," said Alec. "Not when you blame yourself.

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Raphael snapped, "This isn't funny." "That's why no one's laughing." Jace stood, hauling Raphael upright, jamming the tip of his knife between Raphael's shoulder blades.

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Because in the end nothing is worse than seeing the fall of one you loved. It was somehow worse than losing a love. It made everything seem questionable. It made the past bitter and confused.

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She wondered why she'd ever thought trusting someone who wore that much eyeliner was a good idea.

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Jem drew back from her, looking dazed. "By the Angel," he said. "Perhaps we do need a chaperon.

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Will began to straighten up, to turn away from the bed. And as he did, he felt something wrap tightly around his wrist. He glanced down and saw Jem's hand braceleting his own. For a moment he was too shocked to do anything but stare. I am not dead yet, Will, Jem said in a soft voice, thin but as strong as wire. What did Magnus mean by asking you if I knew you were in love with Tessa?

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Don't order any of the faerie food," said Jace, looking at her over the top of his menu. "It tends to make humans a little crazy. One minute you're munching a faerie plum, the next minute you're running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not," he added hastily, "that this has ever happened to me.

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Sometimes one must choose whether to be kind or honorable," he said. "Sometimes one cannot be both.

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Not really, but after that I think about how I could kill him while he slept if I really wanted to, and then I feel better.

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If you knew how to cook, maybe I would eat," Jace muttered. Isabelle froze, her spoon poised dangerously. "What did you say?" Jace edged toward the fridge. "I said I'm going to look for a snack to eat." That's what I thought you said." Isabelle turned her attention to the soup.

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You told us to leave you in the desert, because you planned to start a new life as cactus," Catarina said, her voice flat. "Then you conjured up tiny needles and threw them at us. With pinpoint accuracy.

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Clary didn't ask what that was. She was busy trying not to fall over. The ground was heaving up and down under her feet. "Jace," she said, and crumpled into him. He caught her as if he were used to catching fainting girls, as if he did it every day. Maybe he did.

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Nicely done, brother," said Gabriel from the bed, blinking sleepy green eyes at Gideon. Gideon threw a scone at him.

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Simon had never noticed before, but she wore a silver ring on her right hand, with a partner of flames around the band of it, and a carved L in the center. It reminded him of the ring Clary wore around her neck, with its design of stars. "It's the Lightwood family ring," she said, noticing where his gaze was fixed. "Every family has an emblem. Ours is fire.

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They had met at a club fifteen years before, Etta and Magnus. He had convinced her to dance with him, and she said she had been in love by the end of the song. He told her he had been in love before the beginning.

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Magnus began to be truly alarmed. Will's voice would have shaken, betraying that his cruelty had been part of his playacting, but his son's laugh was that of someone genuinely delighted by the chaos erupting all around him

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As metal rang on metal, some inner part of Jem, some part that had been lost without his even knowing it was lost, felt the pleasure of fighting together with Will one last time.

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You know, Cecily said, you really didn't have to throw that man through the window.

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One more thing," Jace said. "Is there a holy place around here?" Good idea. If you're going to take on a lair of vampires by yourself, you'd better pray first.

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What's wrong, little sis? You look upset." She could barely catch her breath. "Cracked...my...nail polish slapping your... worthless face. See?" She showed him her finger - just one of them. "Cute" He snorted.

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I'm not unhappy," he said. "Only people with no purpose are unhappy. I've got a purpose.

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I can trust you, Jessie, but you're clearly not well enough to go. Which is unfortunate, since Aloysius always had a weakness for a pretty face." "Even more reason why I should go," said Will.

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What? Simon looked alarmed. I'm not really sleeping with your mom, you know. I was just trying to get your attention. Not that your mom isn't a very attractive woman for her age.

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I get the feeling," Alec said, and smiled, "she hasn't forgiven me for betraying you, as she sees it." "Good girl," said Jace with appreciation. "I didn't betray you, idiot." "It's the thought that counts.

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There is more to living than not dying," he said. "Look at the way you live Will. You burn as bright as a star.

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You tried to drink the East River,"Magnus said, and Alec saw, as if for the first time, that Magnus's clothes were soaking wet too, sticking to his body like a dark second skin.

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You and Jace – you're not quite normal, are you? I mean, not normal Shadowhunters. There's something special about you both. Like the Seelie Queen said. You were experiments. He smiled at her startled look. I'm not stupid. I can put these things together. You with your rune powers, and Jace, well…no one could be that annoying without some kind of supernatural assistance.

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Have you told Eric and the rest of them that— That I'm a vampire? No. It isn't the sort of thing you just drop into casual conversation. Maybe not, but they're your friends. They should know. And besides, they'll just think it makes you more of a rock god, like that vampire Lester. Lestat, Simon said. That would be the vampire Lestat. And he's fictional.

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