Cassandra Clare - City of Bones (2007)

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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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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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He's not a liar at all. Not about important things. He'll tell you horrible truths, but he won't lie." She paused before she added quietly: "That's why it's generally better not ask him anything unless you know you can stand to hear the answer.

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To love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.

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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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Will smiled the way Lucifer might have smiled, moments before he fell from Heaven.

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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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Doing the right thing because you love someone sucks sometimes.

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It will bring you light even among the darkest shadows of this world and others

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

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I've never asked him but i'm sure he has a fairly stringent policy about random teenagers lurking in his strubbery

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

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Parabatai" said Jace. "It means a pair of warriors who fight together - who are closer than brothers. Alec is more than justmy best friend.

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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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He saved your life, Clary pointed out. Details, said Simon dismissively.

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Well, you'll have to wait till tomorrow. I'm out of commission." (he points to his shirt) "Look. Jammies.

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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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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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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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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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What?" Jace was still staring at her as if she'd told him she'd found one of the Silent Brothers doing nude cartwheels in the hallway.

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

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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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And next time you're planning to injure yourself to get me attention, just remember that a little sweet talk works wonders.

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

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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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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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You can see where it was, years ago. Like an old woman who was once beautiful, but time has taken her beauty away.

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He strode to the wall and tore aside one of the velvet hangings. You want to tell me what this is? he demanded. It's a door, Jace, said Clary.

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