Cassandra Clare - City of Glass (2009)

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"I should have warned her about your habit of never doing what you're told." Jace squinted at her. "Are those Isabelle's clothes? They look ridiculous on you." "I could point out that you burned my clothes."

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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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And in some way, Clary thought, he meant it, meant his gratitude. He had long ago lost the ability to distinguish between force and cooperation, between fear and willingness, between love and torture. And with that realization came a rush of numbness—what was the point of hating Valentine for being a monster when he didn't even know he was one?

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

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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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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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Because', she said, 'your problems are not real problems. You're dating two beautiful girls at once. Think about it. That's like...having rock-star problems.' 'Having rock-star problems may be the closest I ever get to being an actual rock star.

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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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I would never date a girl who insisted that I cut you out of my life. It's non-negotiable. You want a piece of all this fabulousness? He gestured at himself. Well, my best friend comes along with it. I wouldn't cut you out of my life, Clary, any more than I would cut off my right hand and give it to someone as a Valentine's Day gift. Gross, said Clary. Must you? He grinned. I must.

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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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Alec keeps sending me annoying photos. Lots of captions like Wish you were here, except not really.

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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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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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She'd always had such contempt for mundanes, the way all Shadowhunters did—she'd believed that they were soft, stupid, sheeplike in their complacency. Now she wondered if all that hatred didn't just stem from the fact that she was jealous. It must be nice not worrying that every time one of your family members walked out the door, they'd never come back.

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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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So, technically," Simon said, "even though Jace isn't actually related to you, you have kissed your brother.

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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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You could have had anything else in the world, and you asked for me." She smiled up at him. Filthy as he was, covered in blood and dirt, he was the most beautiful thing she'd ever seen. "But I don't want anything else in the world.

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Clary closed her eyes. Remembering the way Jace had looked at her the night she'd freed Ithuriel, she couldn't help but imagine the way he'd look at her now if he saw her trying to lie down to die on the sand beside him. He wouldn't be touched, wouldn't think it was a beautiful gesture. He'd be angry at her for giving up. He'd be so—disappointed.

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