Cassandra Clare Quotes

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I forgot that's what gets you all hot and bothered, Jace, girls killing things." "I like anyone killing things, especially me." he said with a smile.

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But that was Isabelle — if there was a boy around and blame that needed to be pinned on someone, Isabelle would pin it on him

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[...] He tasted like snowflakes and wine, like winter and Will and London.

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Charlotte, Will's being vexing.' 'And the sun has come up in the east,' said Jem, to no one in particular.

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You know, when most girls say they want a big rock, they don't mean, you know, literally a big rock." "Very amusing, my sarcastic friend. It's not a rock, precisely. All Shadowhunters have a witchlight rune-stone.

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The kitchen was just as empty, even the refrigerator gone, the chairs, the table—the kitchen cabinets stood open, their bare shelves reminder her of a nursery rhyme. She cleared her throat. "What would demons," she said, "want with our microwave?

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He leaned against the door frame, ignoring the kick of adrenaline the sight of her produced. He wondered why, not for the first time. Isabelle used her beauty like she used her whip, but Clary didn't know she was beautiful at all. Maybe that was why.

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Ragnor looked very regretful about all the choices that had led him to his being in this place and especially in this company

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Drowning yourself won't help, she told herself sternly. Now, drowning Will, on the other hand...

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Eternity is a long time to spend alone, without others of your kind.

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He took her by the shoulders and pulled her closer to him, his fingers knotting in the fabric of her dress. Even more than in the attic, she felt caught in the eddy of a powerful wave that threatened to pull her over and under, to crush and break her, to wear her down to softness as the sea might wear down a piece of glass.

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You think she'll be able to talk sense into him? she asked. His sister? "If he listens to anyone, it would be her. That's sweet, said Maia. That he loves his sister like that. Yeah, Simon said. It's precious

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Yes," Jace said, "I regret having disobeyed you." No! Clary thought, but her heart sank. Was he giving up, did he think it was the only way to save her and Simon? Valentine's face softened. "Jonathan-" "Especially," Jace said, "since I plan to do it again. Right now.

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Magnus's eyes went back to Alec. They were gold-green, as unreadable as the eyes of the cat he held on his lap. "Not my favorite topic, Smedley." "Simon", said Simon. "If I'm going to die for you all, the least you could do is remember my name.

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Looking at him now-even if she hadn't been in love with him, that part of her that was her mother's daugher, that loved every beautiful thing for its beauty alone, would still have wanted him.

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Someday, Will, I will go where none can follow me, and I think it will be sooner rather than later. Have you ever asked yourself why I agreed to be your parabatai?

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If this is your idea of glamour, I'm having second thoughts about letting you make me over.

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And what if I'm the one who kills him?" "My heart is your heart," he said, "My hands are your hands.

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You don't need to worry, though. He's not my type." "I don't think I've ever heard a girl say that before," said Simon. "I thought Jace was the kind of guy who was everyone's type.

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He does what he wants, and I don't ask, he said. He could bring a six-foot tall pink rabbit in a bikini back home with him if he wanted to. It's not my business. But if you're asking me if I've brought any girls back here, the answer is no. I don't want anybody but you.

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I do not mean to seem indelicate or ungrateful," said Linette Owens, "but are you a dangerous lunatic?

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Magnus, I wish I had the nerve to wear the kind of pants you do.

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How strange to have the power to literally transform yourself into other people, and yet be so unable to put yourself in their place.

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In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn't matter how hard it was to make it. It matters that you did.

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You don't believe me?" Jace asked. "Fine. Go ahead. Kiss me right now." Alec stared at him in horror. "Exactly. Despite my staggering good lucks, you actually don't like me that way.

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But the person who stepped out of the front door was tall and thin, with short, spiky dark hair. he was wearing a gold mesh vest and a pair of silk pajama pants. He regarded Clary with mild interest, puffing gently on a fantastically large pipe as he did so. Though he looked nothing at all like a Viking, he was instantly and totally familiar. Magnus Bane

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Speaking of hope, did you see that shot Alec got off with his bow? That's my boyfriend.

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Every meeting led to a parting, and so it would, as long as life was mortal. In every meeting there was some of the sorrow of parting, but in everything parting there was some of the joy of meeting as well.

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The thing that you are too young to understand is that we all hide things. We hide them from our lovers because we wish to present our best selves, but also because if it is real love, we expect our loved one to simply understand it, without needing to ask. In a true partnership, the kind that lasts through the ages, there is an unspoken communion.

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One can love two children. But your heart can be given romantic love to only a single other, said Woolsey.

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