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Just like an alley in New York -like every alley in the world, apparently- it smelled like cat pee.

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I forgot," Isabelle muttered as the rest of them caught up to her. "Faeries have no sense of humor." "Oh, I wouldn't say that," said Jace. "There's a pixie nightclub downtown called Hot Wings. Not," he added, "that I have ever been there.

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The Clave thinks the wards will stand forever because they've stood for a thousand years. But so did Rome, till the barbarians came. Everything falls someday

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When the soul has left the body, it belongs to death. And it cannot be taken back without a price.

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I'd do almost anything for you, Simon said quietly. I'd die for you. You know that. But would I kill someone else, someone innocent? What about a lot of innocent lives? What about the whole world? Is it really love to tell someone that if it came down to picking between them and every other life on the planet, you'd pick them? Is that—I don't know, is that a moral sort of love at all?

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Jordan doesn't really care about the blood," Simon said now. "His whole thing is about me being comfortable with what I am. Get in touch with your inner vampire, blah, blah." Clary slid in next to him onto the bed and hugged a pillow. "Is your inner vampire different from your...outer vampire?" "Definitely. He wants me to wear midriff-baring shirts and a fedora. I'm fighting it." Clary smiled faintly. "So your inner vampire is Magnus?

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Her eyes met his, but she looked quickly away; entangling gazes with Will was confusing at best, dizzying at worst.

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Why, oh why, had Jace picked a fight with a pack of wolves? What had possessed him? Then again, it was Jace. He'd pick a fight with a Mack truck if the urge took him.

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You kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire. He had wondered once why love was always phrased in terms of burning. The conflagration in his own veins, now, gave the answer.

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He looked back at her, and when she saw the look on his face, she saw his eyes at Renwick's, when he had watched the Portal that separated him from his home shatter into a thousand irretrievable pieces. He held her gaze for a split second, then looked away from her, the muscles in his throat working.

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Those of us who do not live forever do not like change perhaps as much as those of you who do.

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Jem told me what Ragnor Fell said about my father, Will said. That for my father, there was only ever one woman he loved, and it was her for him, or nothing. You are that for me. I love you, and I will only ever love you until I die —

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The less you had, the more careful you had to be about everything you did have.

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Dudes," He said, "Do not follow other dudes to the bathroom." Isabelle sighed. "Latent homosexual panic will do you in every time

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By the Angel, this place is barely better than a penny gaff, Gideon said. Gabriel, don't look at anything unless I tell you it's all right.

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It's my special magical power. I can read your mind when you're thinking dirty thoughts." "So, ninety-five percent of the time." She craned her head back to look up at him. "Ninety-five percent? What's the other five percent?" "Oh, you know, the usual—demons I might kill, runes I need to learn, people who've annoyed me recently, people who've annoyed me not so recently, ducks." "Ducks?

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Whoever loves you now—and you must also love yourself—will love the truth of you.

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It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.

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I was just wondering if you were armed. You want anything? Dagger, maybe?" He opened his own suit jacket just a bit, and Simon saw something long an metallic glinting against the inside lining. "No wonder you and Jace like each other so much. You're both crazy walking arsenals.

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What are you? The voice came from nowhere. It was in the room. It was outside. It was in Magnus's head. "A warlock," Magnus answered. "And what are you?" We are many. "Please do not say you are a legion. Someone's taken that." Do you make mirth from mundane scriptures, warlock? "Just breaking the ice

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It is easier to confront a threat as a mass, a group, not individuals who must be evaluated one by one...

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I love you so much, so incredibly much," he went on, "and I forget when you're close to me, I forget who you are. I forget that you're Jem's. I'd have to be the worst sort of person to think what I'm thinking right now. But I am thinking it.

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And now I need you to do for me what I cannot do for myself. For you to be my eyes when I do not have them. For you to be my hands when I cannot use my own. For you to be my heart when mine is done beating.

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If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?

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I guess it's true what they say," observed Jace. "There are no straight men in the trenches." "That's atheists, jackass," said Simon furiously. "There are no atheists in the trenches.

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She had always wanted a brother. And she had one now. Sebastian. It was like always wanting a puppy and being a hellhound instead.

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Jem put the full force of himself into each smile, so that he seemed to be smiling with his eyes, his heart, his whole being.

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To lose an arm or a leg would be painful, but to lose the central truth of your life felt—fatal.

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I need someone who can keep up with me, not some sickly creature that looks as if he's doddering off to the grave.

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Oh, leave it, said Jem, kicking Will, not without affection, lightly on the ankle. She's annexed my plan! Will, Tessa said firmly. Do you care more about the plan being enacted or about getting credit for it? Will pointed a finger at her. That, he said. The second one.

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