Cassandra Clare Quotes

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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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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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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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Will closed his eyes. He could not hear Jem go, not anymore; he did not want to know the moment when he left and Will was alone, did now want to know when his first day as a Shawdowhunter without a parabatai truly began. And if the place over his heart, where his parabatai rune had been, flared up with a sudden burning pain as the door closed behind Jem, Will told himself it was only a stray ember from the fire.

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

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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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I love you, Clary," he said without looking at her. He was staring out into the church, at the row of lighted candles, their fold reflected in his eyes. "More than I ever—" He broke off. "God. More than I probably should. You know that, don't you?

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All things tend toward entropy. The whole universe is moving outward, the stars pulling away from one another, God knows what falling through the cracks between them.

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Family isn't blood. It's the people who love you. The people who have your back.

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You guessed? You must have been pretty sure, considering you could have killed me." "I was ninety percent sure." "I see," Clary said. There must have been something in her voice, because he turned to look at her. Her hand cracked across his face, a slap that rocked him back on his heels. He put his hands on his cheek, more in surprise than pain. "What the hell was that for?" "The other ten percent.

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Wanderlust is not unheard of in our kind; it comes upon us now and then. When you can live forever, staying in one place can come to seem a dull prison after many, many years.

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Hang Mortmain," said Will. "And I mean that literally, of course, but also figuratively.

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Dead bodies didn't resemble unconscious ones; it was as if you could sense that something had fled from them, that some essential spark was now missing.

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By the time Alec came back into the training room, Jace was lying on the floor, envisioning lines of dancing girls in an effort to ignore the pain in his wrists. It wasn't working.

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We live forever by the grace of human love, which rocked strange children in their cradles and did not despair and did not turn away.

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Well, you know, your mom gets like this sometimes," Simon said. "Like when she breathes in or out.

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I really wish you hadn't worn that sweater,'he muttered into her ear. 'It's good practice for you,' she replied, her lips moving against his skin. 'Tomorrow, fishnets.' Against her side, warm and familiar, she felt him laugh.

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Magnus gazed dreamily in his direction. "You should leave him here. I could hang hats on him and things.

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So, what are you?" "What I am is someone who doesn't want you to jump out of the window. The rest are details.

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Simon shook his head."Look, do you know what you want to eat, or do you just want me to keep pushing this cart up and down aisles because it amuses you?" "That and I'm not really familiar with what they sell in mundane grocery stores.Maryse usually cooks or we order in food."said Jace

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I think there is hope for you yet, Will Herondale. I will try to learn how to have it, without you to show me. Tessa, Jem said. She knows despair, and hope as well. you can teach each other. Find her, Will, and tell her that I loved her always. My blessings, for all that it is worth, is on you both.

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So you're a Shadowhunter,' Nate said. 'De Quincey told me that you lot were monsters.' 'Was that before or after he tried to eat you?' Will inquired.

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