Cassandra Clare - City of Ashes (2008)

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Now this is really going to impress Valentine." "I don't know," Clary said. "Other crack teams get bat boomerangs and wall-crawling powers; we get the Aquatruck." "If you don't like it, Nephilim," came Magnus's voice, faintly, from the truck cab, "you're welcome to see if you can walk on the water.

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Magnus got to his feet. I do believe that's my cue to leave as well, he said. Clary noticed he was avoiding looking at Alec. I'd say it's been nice meeting you all, but, in fact, it hasn't. It's been quite awkward, and frankly, the next time I see a single one of you will be far too soon.

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How had it happened, Simon thought, that he was bound to these people—to people who thought of him as nothing more than a Downworlder, half human at best?

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Honestly I don't know why i have these parties" "Because of your cat" "That's true. Chairman Meow deserves my every effort

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Waiting for a special occasion to kill me? Christmas is coming.

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"How are you feeling?"
"Like someone massaged me with a cheese grater."

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I don't do what I'm told, but I might do what you want if you ask me nicely.

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For the first time Valentine glanced down at the body of Brother Jeremiah. "I did kill him, and the rest of the Silent Brothers as well. I had to. They had something I needed." "What? A sense of decency?

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Doing the right thing because you love someone sucks sometimes.

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It was truly amazing, Clary thought, how much teenage boys were able to eat without ever gaining weight or making themselves sick.

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He'd felt like a jack-o-lantern for the past few days, as if his guts had been yanked out with a fork and dumped in a heap while a grinning smile stayed plastered on his face.

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Keeping demons from this world is your mandate, a mandate from heaven. And a mandate from heaven isn't something you can just ignore.

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Shouldn't we stand back to back or something?" "What? Why?" "I don't know. In movies that's what they do in this kind of… situation.

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You're not going," he said as soon as she'd finished. "If I have to tie you up and sit on you until this insane whim of yours passes, you are not going to Idris." - Jace

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You know what the worst thing I can imagine is? Simon had said. Not trusting someone I love.

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She had imagined Jace leaping from the bed in astonishment and gasping something like "Egad!" This didn't happen-largely, she suspected, because Jace had seen much stranger things in his life, and also because nobody used the word "Egad!" anymore. His eyes widened, though.

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"You like the party?" "Is it in honor of anything?" "My cat's birthday." "Oh." She glanced around. "Where's your cat?" "I don't know. He ran away."

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There was something about Jace, though, that made her want to push him, crack that shell of cynicism and make him admit her believed something, felt something, cared about anythinng at all.

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Isabelle looked at him thoughtfully. "Did you seriously jump thirty feet out of a Malachi Configuration? Did he, Alec?" "He did," Alec confirmed. "I've never seen anything like it." "I've never seen anything like this." Jace lifted a ten-inch dagger from the floor. One of Isabelle's pink brassiers was spread on the wickedly sharp tip. Isabelle snached it off, scowling.

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I don't care who her mother is," Magnus said. "You can't see me with out an appointment. Come back later. Next March would be good," "March?" Sebastian looked horrified. "You're right," Magnus said, "Too rainy. How about June?

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I think I gave Alec a complex about what kind of fighter he was, just because he wanted to live.

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Mundane humans create distinctions between themselves, distinctions that seem ridiculous to any Shadowhunter. Their distinctions are based on race, religion, national identity, any of a dozen minor and irrelevant markers.

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The missing stairs baffled Clary. What did vampires have against stairs?

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Catching sight of himself in the long mirrors that ran along the walls, he stiffened in shock...His eyes were surrounded by black shadows, his shirt smeared with dried blood and filthy mud... "Admiring yourself?" The Inquisitor's voice cut through his reverie. "You won't look so pretty when the Clave gets through with you." "You do seem obsessed with my look...Could it be that you're attracted to me?" "Don't be revolting...You could be my son.

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I was even a little glad that if it wasn't going to be me she wanted, it was going to be someone who really deserved her.

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I do not understand how you humans can walk in shoes that are that tall. Its my motto, said Isabelle, with a sultry smile. Nothing less than seven inches.

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The next thing I knew I was listening to five people shouting. What was that all about, anyway? (Luke) Nothing, chorused Clary, Simon, Alec, Magnus, and Jace in surprising and probably never-to-be-repeated unison.

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That does it," said Jace. "I'm going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year." "Why?" Isabelle said. "So you can look up 'fun.' I'm not sure you know what it means.

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Come in. And try not to murder any of my guests." Jace edged into the doorway, sizing up Magnus with his eyes. "Even if one of them spills a drink on my new shoes?" "Even then.

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It's like a cotillion, this partners business, except with killing. So, exactly like a cotillion, said Simon.

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