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A maidenhead, the virgin's trouble
Is well-compare-d to a bubble
on a navigable river
Soon 'tis touched t'is gone forever


John Clare

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Is the immediate jewel of their souls:
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with a permanent wound

forever
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CASSANDRA CLARE Must you go? I was rather hoping you'd stay and be a ministering angel, but if you must go, you must...
CASSANDRA CLARE Goodness," Tessa said to the back of his head. "If you keep seeing Six-Fingered Nigel like this, he'...
CASSANDRA CLARE Blue does not go with everything," Will told her. "It does not go with red, for instance."
"I ...
CASSANDRA CLARE I see you're determined to miss my point."
"If you're point is that there was a pretty girl in ...
CASSANDRA CLARE Do reasons matter when there's nothing that can be done to change things.
CASSANDRA CLARE Tessa poked at her left incisor with her tongue. It was flat again, an ordinary tooth. "I don't unde...
CASSANDRA CLARE So you don't ever get angry at him?"
Jem laughed out loud. "I would hardly say that. Som...
CASSANDRA CLARE Will smiled the way Lucifer might have smiled, moments before he fell from Heaven.
CASSANDRA CLARE When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is no...
CASSANDRA CLARE Drowning yourself won't help, she told herself sternly. Now, drowning Will, on the other hand...
CASSANDRA CLARE A little girl robbed you?" Tessa said.
"Actually, she wasn’t a little girl at all, as it turn...
CASSANDRA CLARE Jessamine recoiled from the paper as if it were a snake. "A lady does not read the newspaper. The so...
CASSANDRA CLARE Black hair and blue eyes are my favorite combination.
CASSANDRA CLARE That was enterprising," Will sounded nearly impressed.
Nate smiled. Tess shot him a furious loo...
CASSANDRA CLARE Will rolled up his sleeves. "We'll probably have to knock down the door--"
"Or," said Jem, rea...
CASSANDRA CLARE Well, she's not responding to my advances," he observed more brightly than he felt, "so she must be ...
CASSANDRA CLARE Sometimes, when I have to do something I don't want to do, I pretend I'm a character from a book. It...
CASSANDRA CLARE Let me give you a piece of advice. The handsome young fellow who's trying to rescue you from a hideo...
CASSANDRA CLARE Are you implying that shreds of my reputation remain intact?" Will demanded with mock horror. "Clear...
CASSANDRA CLARE If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?
CASSANDRA CLARE You know," Gabriel said, "there was a time I thought we could be friends, Will."

"There w...
CASSANDRA CLARE It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. ...
CASSANDRA CLARE Will looked horrified. "What kind of monster could possibly hate chocolate?
CASSANDRA CLARE Remember when you tried to convince me to feed a poultry pie to the mallards in the park to see if y...
CASSANDRA CLARE Don't you think 'Mark is kind of a weird name for a Shadowhunter?" Julian was saying as Emma approac...
CASSANDRA CLARE What did Isabelle want?" Jace asked.
Alec hesitated. "Isabelle says the Queen of the Seelie Cou...
CASSANDRA CLARE Will suspected Jem was in fact cleverer than he was himself - but he lacked Will's tendency to assum...
CASSANDRA CLARE So it's true what they say about warlocks, then?"
Alec gave him a very unpleasant look. "Wha...
CASSANDRA CLARE What I actually want to call you is a hell of a lot more unprintable than your name
CASSANDRA CLARE Magnus raised his hands above his head and clapped once. The room flooded with light. "You see? You ...
CASSANDRA CLARE I can't believe he didn't have the dignity and presence of mind just to get drunk and pass out in so...
CASSANDRA CLARE If you're texting Magnus to say 'I think u r kewl' I'm going to kill you
CASSANDRA CLARE My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health.
CASSANDRA CLARE Isabelle snorted, "All the boys are gay. In this truck, anyway. Well, not you, Simon."
"...
CASSANDRA CLARE Jem gave her a wistful look. “Must you go? I was rather hoping that you’d stay and be a minister...
CASSANDRA CLARE And now," Eric yelled into his mircophone, "we're going to sing a new song-one we just wrote. This o...
CASSANDRA CLARE Take off your shirt."
Jace raised his eyebrows.
"I'm not going to attack you," she said i...
CASSANDRA CLARE Other crack teams get bat boomerangs and wall-climbing powers; we get Aquatruck.
CASSANDRA CLARE I've got the Mark of Cain," said Simon. "That means nothing can kill me, right?"
"You can kill ...
CASSANDRA CLARE aren't you, uh... reproducing?

"sure, we love reproducing it's one of our favorite things...
CASSANDRA CLARE Tessa touched his wrist lightly with her hand. "Be brave," she said. "It's not a duck, is it?
CASSANDRA CLARE I don't want tea," said Clary, with muffled force. "I want to find my mother. And then I want to fin...
CASSANDRA CLARE One does no question miracles, or complain that they are no constructed perfectly to one's liking.
CASSANDRA CLARE He made it very clear that he didn’t want me here,” she said at last. “That my remaining at th...
CASSANDRA CLARE Eternity is a long time to spend alone, without others of your kind.
CASSANDRA CLARE Jace broke off the kiss and stepped back with an exhale; before Clary could say anything, a chorus o...
CASSANDRA CLARE You could have fooled me. Everytime I called you, Luke said you were sick. I figured you were avoidi...
CASSANDRA CLARE I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or ...
CASSANDRA CLARE What's this?" he demanded, looking from Clary to his companions, as if they might know what she was ...
CASSANDRA CLARE Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.
CASSANDRA CLARE You could have had anything else in the world, and you asked for me."
She smiled up at him. Fil...
CASSANDRA CLARE And now I’m looking at you,” he said, “and you’re asking me if I still want you, as if I cou...
CASSANDRA CLARE In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn't matter how hard it was to make it. It matter...
CASSANDRA CLARE When you love someone, they become a part of who you are. They’re in everything you do. They’re ...
CASSANDRA CLARE Do not let any of them tell you who you are. You are the flame that cannot be put out. You are the s...
CASSANDRA CLARE Every decision you make, makes you. Never let other people choose who you’re going to be.
CASSANDRA CLARE Your place is with me," Jem said. "It always Will be.
CASSANDRA CLARE You sound as if you don't mind what happens to it," said Tessa. "Won't you miss it here? This place ...
CASSANDRA CLARE It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me...
CASSANDRA CLARE People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you l...
CASSANDRA CLARE Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.
CASSANDRA CLARE You've always been what you are. That's not new. What you'll get used to is knowing it.
CASSANDRA CLARE One finds nobility in the oddest places.
CASSANDRA CLARE Patience, grasshopper," said Maia. "Good things come to those who wait."
"I always thought that...
CASSANDRA CLARE Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes.
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