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Five years of someone's life is too much to lose over a throwaway comment.


Clare Mackintosh

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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."
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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 Old April wanes, and her last dewy morn Her death-bed steeps in tears; to hail the May New blo...
JOHN 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...
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