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It would be one thing if I had been cursed so that everyone I loved would die," said Will. "I could keep myself from loving. To keep others from caring for me—it is an odd, exhausting procedure.

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Never doubt my weaseling abilities, Shadowhunter, for they are epic and memorable in their scope.

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And you love Sophie." Gideon's mouth tensed. "She's a mundane and a servant," said Gabriel. "I don't know what you expect to come of it, Gideon." "Nothing," Gideon said roughly. "I expect nothing. But the fact that you believe I should shows that our family brought us up to believe that we should do right only if some reward was the result.

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I need some beef and broccoli before I face any more Mr. Darcy. It's a truth universally acknowledged that if you watch too much television on am empty stomach, your head falls off." "If your head fall off, " Tessa said, "the hairdressing industry would go into an economic meltdown

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She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all?

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I love you, Tessa, and I have loved you, almost since the moment I met you.

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She was afraid you'd freak out? Start seeing demons in the White House?"... "There are demons in the White House?" "I was kidding," said Jace. "I think."

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Love did not overcome everything. Love did not always endure. All you had could be taken away, love could be the last thing you had, and then love could be taken too.

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Hi, I'm one of the knife-carrying hooligans you met last night in Pandemonium? I'm afraid I made a bad impression and was hoping you'd give me a chance to make it up to-" "SIMON!

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If there is a life after this one, he said, let me meet you in it, James Carstairs.

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We're called Shadowhunters. At least, that's what we call ourselves. The Downworlders have less complimentary names for us.

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We can buy you one of those books they have for little kids 'Timmy Has Two Dads'. Except I don't think they have one called 'Timmy Has Two Dads and One of Them Was Evil'. That part you're just going to have to work through on your own.

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It's a bit of the very last verse from Paradiso- Dante's Paradise. 'My will and my desire were turned by love, the love that moves the sun and the other stars.' Dante was trying to explain faith, I thnk, as an overpowering love, and maybe it's blasphemous, but that's how I think of the way that I love you. You came into my life and suddenly I had one truth to hold on to- that I loved you, and you loved me.

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The two are now bound inextricably. Should one die, the other will follow. No wepon in this world can wound only one of them

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You can't forget the things you did in the past, or you'll never learn from them.

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I'll just have them change the entry in the demonology textbook from 'almost extinct' to 'not extinct enough for Alec. He prefers his monsters really, really extinct.' Will that make you happy?

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His steady gaze held hers. His blue eyes were very dark, uniquely so. She had known people before with blue eyes, but they had always been light blue. Will's were the color of the sky just on the edge of night.

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She hated that will had this effect on her. Hated it. She knew better. She knew what he thought of her. That she was worth nothing. And still a look from him could make her tremble with mingled hatred and longing. It was like poison in her blood, to which Jem was the only antidote.

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Tessa looked quickly to Will, but he only crossed the room as he always did to lean against the fireplace mantel. Cecily had never been able to decide if he did this because he was perpetually cold or because he thought he looked dasing standing before the leaping flames.

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One of the things he'd always loved about Clary was how easily caught up in her imagination she was, how easily she could wall herself away in illusory worlds of curses and princes and destiny and magic.

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I get the feeling you'd rather pine over someone you can never possibly be with than try being with someone you can.

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She jerked hastily back to avoid stepping on it, and her shoulder bumped his—he put a hand out to steady her, just as she turned to apologize and then she was somehow in the circle of his arm and he was kissing her.

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There must always be a first," said Jem. "It is not easy to be first, and it is not always rewarding, but it is important.

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For a moment Clary thought she might fall; she felt as if something essential had been torn away from her, an arm or a leg, and she stared at Jace in blank astonishment— what did he feel, did he feel nothing? She didn't think she could bear it if he felt nothing.

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Most Shadowhunters get their first Marks at twelve. It must have been in your blood. Maybe. Although I doubt most Shadowhunters get a tattoo of Donatello from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on their left shoulder. Jace looked baffled. You wanted a turtle on your shoulder?

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So here's where they put you. I didn't think they even used these cells anymore. He glanced sideways. I got the wrong window at first. Gave your friend in the next cell something of a shock. Attractive fellow, what with the beard and the rags. Kind of reminds me of the street folk back home.

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You know," Clary said, "most psychologists agree that hostility is really just sublimated sexual attraction.

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Coaxing drunken Shadowhunters into making fools of themselves was a favorite occupation among the Downworlders, and this performance had been a tremendous success.

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"What are you doing here anyway?" "'Here' as in your bedroom or 'here' as in the great spiritual question of our purpose here on this planet?"

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Alec looked down at the shattered pieces in disbelief. You BROKE my PHONE. Jace shrugged. Guys don't let other guys keep calling other guys. Okay, that came out wrong. Friends don't let friends keep calling their exes and hanging up. Seriously. You have to stop. Alec looked furious. So you broke my brand new phone? Thanks a lot. Jace smiled serenely and lay back on the grass. You're welcome.

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