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She gritted her teeth. She was here with Sebastian, on her way to see a powerful warlock, and mentally she was maundering on about the way Jace smelled.

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I tell so many lies, sweetheart," he said. "which one specifically?

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"Right. Vampires. But how do they get inside?" "They fly"... "We don't fly," Clary felt impelled to point out. "No," Jace agreed. "We don't fly. We break and enter."... "Flying sounds like more fun."

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I'm afraid to answer that. I've heard that when I speak, it makes American women wish to strike me with umbrellas.

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It's too late," she said. "Don't say that." His voice was half a whisper. "I love you, Tessa. I love you.

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But Magnus, he thought. You never told me. Never warned me it would be like this, that I would wake up one day and realize that I was going somewhere you couldn't follow. That we are essentially not the same. There's no "till death do us apart" for those who never die.

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He shone all over. Only Magnus, Simon thought resignedly, would have access to sequined battle armor.

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She had made the choice for him - in a moment of flight and panic, but she had made it - not realizing that her Jace would rather die than be like this, and that she'd been not so much saving his life as damning him to an existence he would despise.

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Do you want to go back to Vienna? he said. Alec didn't answer, just stared into space. Or we could go somewhere else, said Magnus. Anywhere you want. Thailand, South Carolina, Brazil, Peru – Oh, wait, no, I'm banned from Peru. I'd forgotten about that. It's a long story, but amusing if you want to hear it.

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Clary," Jace said again. "You know: short, redheaded, bad temper.

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And in some way, Clary thought, he meant it, meant his gratitude. He had long ago lost the ability to distinguish between force and cooperation, between fear and willingness, between love and torture. And with that realization came a rush of numbness—what was the point of hating Valentine for being a monster when he didn't even know he was one?

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Vampires bore a grudge longer than any technically living creatures, and whenever they were in a bad temper, they expressed themselves through murder.

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Humans were so stupid. They had something so precious, and they barely safeguarded it at all. They threw away their lives for money, for packets of powder, for a stranger's charming smile.

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He caught her as if he were used to catching fainting girls, as if he did it everyday.

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You could know a man not by what his friends said about him, but by how he treated his servants.

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If you run into a psychic wall face-first, do you wind up with psychic bruises?

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There is a coldness to the Clave, it is true. We are dust and shadows. But you are like the heroes of ancient times, like Achilles and Jason. Achilles was murdered with a poisoned arrow, and Jason died alone, killed by his own rotting ship. Such is the fate of heroes; the Angel knows why anyone would want to be one.

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It was like a bad movie except he didn't actually twirl his mustache.

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A forty-foot worm?" Will muttered to Jem as they moved through the Italian garden, their boots - thanks to a pair of Soundless runes - making no noise on the gravel. "Think of the size of the fish we could catch." Jem's lips twitched. "It's not funny, you know." "It is a bit.

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What was that?" Jace said. "Sorry, I think I fell asleep for a moment. Do, continue with whatever mesmerizing thing you were saying.

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Missing, one stunningly attractive teenage boy. Answers to 'Jace' or 'Hot Stuff

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Magnus had been alive hundreds of years himself, and yet the simplest things could turn a day into a jewel, and a succession of days into a glittering chain that went on and on. Here was the simplest thing: a pretty girl liked him, and the day shone.

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And the answer is yes. I have loved you. I always have, and I always will.

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I thought it'd be something cooler, like a van with 'Death to Demons' painted on the outside.

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Do you remember back at the hotel when you promised that if we lived, you'd get dressed up in a nurse's outfit and give me a sponge bath?" asked Jace. "It was Simon who promised you the sponge bath." "As soon as I'm back on my feet, handsome," said Simon. "I knew we should have left you a rat.

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You have to give everyone ugly motives for everything they do, because ugly motives are all you understand.

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Magnus did not take such suffering lightly, but even mortals did not die of broken hearts. No matter how cruel Grace had been, he told himself, James would heal. Even though he was a Herondale.

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And then you'd turn to me and smile that funny smile, and I know you'd forgotten all about me and just remembered — but I was never mad at you. Half of your attention is better than all of anyone else's.

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He always lived in his head. He never cared about how things were, only how they would be, someday, when he had everything he wanted. When we had everything we wanted.

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You love each other – anyone can see that, looking at you – that kind of love that can burn down the world or raise it up in glory.

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