Cassandra Clare - City of Ashes (2008)

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

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

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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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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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Clary stopped dead in her tracks. "Simon?" "Oh, God," said Jace, sounding resigned. "And here I'd actually hoped I'd got hold of something interesting."

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Luke indicated Simon and Clary with a wave of his hand. 'I brought some people to see you.' Jace's eyes moved to them. They were as blanked as if the had been painted. 'Unfortunately, ' he said, 'I only had the one pencil.

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I've got a stele we can use. Who wants to do me?" "A regrettable choice of words," muttered Magnus.

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That seems like stealing, doesn't it?" Simon pulled a cup toward him. He drew the lid back. "Ooh. Mochaccino." He looked at Magnus. "Did you pay for these?" "Sure," said Magnus, while Jace and Alec snickered. "I make dollar bills magically appear in their cash register." "Really?" "No." Magnus popped the lid off his own coffee. "But you can pretend I did if it makes you feel better. So, first order of business is what?

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Where there is love, there is often also hate. They can exist side by side.

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I am one of the Clave. It's in my blood and bones. So tell me, if you're so sure this wasn't my fault, why is it that the first thought in my mind when I saw Abbadon wasn't for my fellow warriors but for you?" His other hand came up; he was holding her face, prisoned between his palms. "I know-I knew-Alec wasn't acting like himself. I knew something was wrong. But all I could think about was you...

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Clary wondered what exactly peanut-fish-olive-tomato soup tasted like.

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Only mundanes say they're sorry when what they mean is "I share your grief,"' Jace observed.

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It's not funny, Jace," Alec interrupted, starting to his feet. "Are you just going to let her stand there and call me names?" "Yes," Jace said kindly. "It'll do you good— try to think of it as endurance training.

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If you don't go after Luke, Clary said, enunciating very clearly, I, personally, will kill you. For a moment Jocelyn looked astonished. Then she smiled. Well, she said, if you put it like that.

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As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?

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Don't panic, but we've got an audience." Clary turned her head. Perched on a nearby tree branch was Hugo, watching them beadily from bright black eyes. So the sound she'd heard had been wings rather than demented passion. That was disappointing.

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To her you're Jocelyn's daughter. But I'll always be Valentine's son

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Well, I'm not kissing the mundane," said Jace. "I'd rather stay down here and rot." "Forever?" said Simon. "Forever's an awfully long time." Jace raised his eyebrows. "I knew it," he said. "You want to kiss me, don't you?

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Or perhaps this hostility of yours is the pretense. Love does make liars out of your kind.

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Do you think…" He raised his eyebrows. "Do I think what?" "That Valentine might have drowned?" "Never believe the bad guy is dead until you see a body," said Simon. "That just leads to unhappiness and surprise ambushes.

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