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You're my sister, he said finally. My sister, my blood, my family. I should want to protect you —he laughed soundlessly and without any humor— to protect you from the sort of boys who want to do with you exactly what I want to do.

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It's love, not the Battle of Thermopylae. You don't have to treat everything like it's a last stand.

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"I hate it when you answer a question with a question." "No you don't, you think its charming."

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Will pushed his hands through his damp hair. Oh, yes, he said bitterly. Perhaps in some other life, beyond this one, when we have passed beyond the river, or turned upon the Wheel, or whatever kind words you want to use to describe leaving this world, I shall find my friend again, my parabatai. But I have lost you now—now, when I need you more than I ever did!

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I'm not sure that's such a great idea." Luke said. "It's a fabulous idea." Jace dropped the paper back onto the table, and began to slide off his jacket. "I've got a stele we can use. Who wants to do me?" "A regrettable choice of words," Magnus muttered.

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Well, Tessa said, sighting along the line of the knife, you behave as if you dislike me. In fact, you behave as if you dislike us all. I don't, Gabriel said. I just dislike him. He pointed at Will. Dear me, said Will, and he took another bite of his apple. Is it because I'm better-looking than you?

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Will looking after her, sighed.not for her, he said under his breath, though there was no one to hear him, for me.... And he leaned his head against the cold iron gate.

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Good organization, said Magnus. I knew the man who founded it, back in the 1800s. Woolsey Scot. Respectable old werewolf family. Alec made an ugly sound in the back of his throat. Did you sleep with him, too? Magnus's cat eyes widened. Alexander!

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So you're suggesting we take the train up to York, meet a ninety-year-old man, leap on him, and yank out his hair? I'm sure the Clave will be ecstatic. They'll just say you're mad, said Jessamine. They already think it, so what's the difference, really?

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The only way that we can protect each other is if we are together. If we face things together. If we trust each other.

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I figured all your classes were stuff like Slaughter 101 and Beheading for Beginners." Jace flipped a page. "Very funny, Fray.

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Well, I don't want you to die," Tessa said. "I don't know why I feel it so strongly — I've just met you — but I don't want you to die." "And I trust you," he said. "I don't know why — I've just met you — but I do.

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Simon remembered a rhyme his mother used to recite to him, about magpies. You were supposed to count them and say: one for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a birth, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret that's never been told. "Right," simon said. He had already lost count of the numbers of birds there were. Seven, he guessed. A secret that's never been told. Whatever that was.

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Well, I'd certainly hate to interrupt your pleasant night stroll with my sudden death." He blinked. "There is a fine line between sarcasm and outright hostility, and you seem to have crossed it. What's up?

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One must look at the next step on the path ahead, rather than the mountain in the distance, or one would never reach one's goal.

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It's not gray," Clary felt compelled to point out. "It's green." "If there was such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood," said Jace.

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Strangely, what pierced his heart and mind most sharply was not the memory of her lips under his at the ball, but the way she had leaned into his neck, as if she trusted him utterly. He would have given everything he had in the world and everything he would ever have, just to lie beside her in the narrow infirmary bed and hold her while she slept. Pulling away from her had been like pulling his own skin off, but he'd had to do it.

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I know it's wrong - God, it's all kinds of wrong - but I just want to lie down with you and wake up with you, just once, just once ever in my life.

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Tell you what.' Alec reached for a second seraph blade. 'We live through this, and I promise I'll introduce you to my whole family.' Magnus raised his hands, his fingers shining with individual azure flames. They lit his grin with a fiery blue glow. 'It's a deal.

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I imagine that it will not be easy to persuade Mortmain into a bonnet," Magnus observed. "Though the color would be fetching on him." Henry burst into laughter. "Very droll, Mr. Bane." "Please, call me Magnus." "I shall!

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Did you like it?" he said. "I could have given you...jewelry, but I wanted it to be something that was wholly yours. That no one else would hear or own. And I am not good with words, so I wrote how I felt about you in music." He paused. "Did you like it?

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So you interrupted my date to make fun of me for still living with my parents. Couldn't you have done that on a night I didn't have a date? That's most nights, in case you're curious.

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As Magnus turned to walk away from the church, he heard the sound of violin music carried to him on the cloudy London air, and remembered another night, a night of ghosts and snow and Christmas music, and Will standing on the steps of the Institute, watching Magnus as he went.

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Don't fight in front of the client, boys." Catarina implored in her sweet voice," or I will knock your heads together so hard, your skulls will crack like eggs

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I decided it was well past time to take him home and place him in bosom of his family. If you had rather I put him in an orphanage, I fully understand.

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He carefully maintained the blasé air of one who had been here before and had been incredibly well dressed that time too

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Meliorn? said Clary. I've met you, haven't I? You used to go out with Isabelle Lightwood. Meliorn was almost expressionless, but Clary could have sworn he looked ever so slightly uncomfortable. Luke shook his head. Clary, Meliorn is a knight of the Seelie Court. It's very unlikely that he – He was totally dating Isabelle, Simon said, and she dumped him too. At least she said she was going to. Tough break, man.

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I've noticed the Fair Folk often say 'perhaps' when there is a truth they want to hide," Clary said. "It keeps you from having to give a straight answer." "Perhaps so," said the Queen with an amused smile. "'Mayhap' is a good word too," Alec suggested. "Also 'perchance,'" Izzy said. "I see nothing wrong with 'maybe'," said Simon. "A little modern, but the gist of the idea comes across.

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At least Kyle wasn't home. That would be a hard one to explain to his new roomate. Nobody liked a guy who kept blood in the fridge.

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You'd think the Angel would have been foresighted enough to give us a birth-control rune, but no dice.

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