Cassandra Clare Quotes

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All that running and getting nowhere, he thought. Story of my life.

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One of the Silent Brothers is here to see you. Hodge sent me to wake you up. Actually he offered to wake you himself, but since it's 5 a.m., I figured you'd be less cranky if you had something nice to look at." "Meaning you?" "What else?

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I wouldn't cut you out of my life Clary, any more than I would cut off my right hand and give it to someone as a Valentine's Day gift." Gross," said Clary. "Must you?" Simon grinned. "I must.

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It means 'Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of our Enemies Since 1234'.

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They landed at Simon's feet. "Take your clothes and go!" Isabelle shouted.

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Ah, said a voice from the doorway, having your annual 'everyone thinks Will is a lunatic' meeting, are you? It's biannual, said Jem. And no, this is not that meeting.

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The only time people turned to watch her go by was when she hurtled past them as she fell.

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So John took out of his pocket A knife both long and sharp, And stuck it through his brother's heart, And the blood came pouring down. Says John to William, "Take off thy shirt, And tear it from gore to gore, And wrap it round your bleeding heart, And the blood will pour no more.

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I used to think if I married Master Jem— Sophie picked at the blanket, then looked up and smiled bleakly. You haven't broken his heart yet, have you? No, Tessa said. Just torn my own in two. I haven't broken his heart at all.

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Jocelyn recognized reading as a sacred pastime and usually wouldn't interrupt Clary in the middle of a book, even to yell at her.

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You can only push the truth down for so long, and then it bubbles back up.

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Magnus was sure that the llama stampede he witnessed was a coincidence. The llamas could not be judging him.

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In some ways, we've been through something no one else can ever understand but the two of us... And it made me realize. We are always and absolutely better together.

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Reparations, said Jem very suddenly, setting down the pen he was holding. Will looked at him in puzzlement. Is this a game? We just blurt out whatever word comes next to mind? In that case mine is 'genuphobia'. It means an unreasonable fear of knees. What's the word for a perfectly reasonable fear of annoying idiots? inquired Jessamine.

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This was Jace being brave. Simon thought, brave and snarky because he thought Lilith was going to kill him, and that was the way he wanted to go, unafraid and on his feet. Like a warrior. The way Shadowhunters did. His death song would always be this-jokes and snideness and pretend arrogance, and that look in his eyes that said 'I'm better than you'. Simon just hadn't realized it before.

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Well, she's not responding to my advances," he observed more brightly than he felt, "so she must be dead." "Or she's a woman of good taste and sense.

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Magnus, you were trying to flirt with your own plate." "I'm a very open-minded sort of fellow!

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Consider it a race to see who kills you first, Daylighter-Valentine, the other Downworlders, or the Clave.

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Demon hunting and fashion," Clary said. "I never would have thought they went together.

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Do you have a lot of other profound thoughts like that? Blood is blood? A toaster is a toaster? A Gelatinous Cube is a Gelatinous Cube?

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There's more to someone being lovable than the way they look." "...he told me that the way you can tell if a bug or a snake is poisonous, like, is if it's got really lovely, bright markings. The more the beautiful its skin is, the more deadly it is." "All that pretty face and whatnot just hides how twisted up and rotten he is on the inside.

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You never cared that I was your sister before. Didn't I? His black eyes flicked up and down her. Our father's dead, he said. There are no other relatives. You and I, we are the last. The last of the Morgensterns. You are the only one left whose blood runs in my veins, too. You are my last chance.

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So you're trying to make her happy despite the fact that the reason she's unhappy in the first place is you," said Simon, not very kindly. "That seems contradictory, doesn't it?" "Love is a contradiction," said Jace.

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Well, there aren't any graves in mundane wedding ceremonies, said Tessa. Though your ability to quote the Bible is impressive. Better than my aunt Harriet's. Did you hear that, James? She just compared us to her aunt Harriet.

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"The angel brought you back." "Because you asked him to." [...] "You could have had anything else in the world, and you asked for me." "But I don't want anything else in the world. I love you. I would do it again. I would ask for you."

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And quit baring your fangs at me. It's making me nervous." "Good," Simon said. "if you want to know why, it's because you smell like blood." "It's my cologne. Eau de Recent Injury." Jace raised his left hand.

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Screw the Silent Brothers." "No thanks. There's strong and silent, and then there's just freaky." "Isabelle!

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He held her close enough to kiss, close enough to whisper the most important secrets in the world, and he spoke to her as he would have wanted some good angel to speak to his family, to his own shivering young soul, long ago and in a land far away.

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I wish I could hate you," he said. His voice was light, his mouth curved in an unconcerned half smile, his eyes sick with misery. "I want to hate you. I try to hate you. It would be so much easier if I did hate you. Sometimes I do hate you and then I see you and I...

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You know how the bonds of family are, my lady... They cling as tightly as vines. And sometimes, like vines, they cling tightly enough to kill.

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