Cassandra Clare quote: "His fingers skimmed down her body, over skin and satin, and she shivered, leaning into him, and she was sure they both tasted like blood and ashes and salt, but it didn't matter; the world, the city, and all it's lights and life seemed to have narrowed down to this, just her and Jace, the burning heart of a frozen world."

Love didn't make you weak, it made you stronger.
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And the Clave wants to meet Clarissa. You know that, Jace."
"The Clave can screw itself."
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Because that was what you did with family when you'd been worried about them, you grabbed them and h...
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You’re here!” Isabelle danced up to them in delight, carrying a glass of fuchsia liquid, which s...
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Magnus gazed dreamily in his direction. "You should leave him here. I could hang hats on him and thi...
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Look, did you ask me to come all the way uptown just so you could stare at me like I was something i...
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The way he looked at you. I got it then. He loved you, and it was killing him. He won't get over you...
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I forgot that's what gets you all hot and bothered, Jace, girls killing things."
"I like anyone...
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You know, some people think Shadowhunters are just myths. Like mummies and genies." Kyle grinned at ...
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Demon pox, oh demon pox
Just how is it acquired?
One must go down to the bad part of town<...
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But-" Maia, still looking at Alec and Magnus, broke off and rasied her eyebrows. Simon turned to see...
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You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.
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I figured all your classes were stuff like Slaughter 101 and Beheading for Beginners."
Jace fli...
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A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance covers?
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Did you ever think that in a past life Alec was an old woman with ninety cats who was always yelling...
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You're just worried they'll hire a male instructor and he'll be hotter than you."
Jace's eyebr...
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Magnus's eyes went back to Alec. They were gold-green, as unreadable as the eyes of the cat he held ...
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I have a feeling you're right, Sherwin.'
'Simon. My name is Simon.
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Get over here. Sheldon's had an idea."
"Who's Sheldon?", said Isabelle.
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Excellent. I've been told I have a lovely, melodic reading voice." He flipped the book open to the f...
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She turned and looked at him. "Ducks?" she said again.
A smile tugged the edge of his mouth. "I...
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I don't care," Clary said. "He'd do it for me. Tell me he wouldn't. If I were missing-"
"He'd ...
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Isabelle snorted. 'All the boys are gay. In this truck, anyway. Well, not you, Simon.'
'You not...
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You never called me back," he said. "I called you so many times and you never called me back."
...
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With Jace, you don't really get to choose your insulting nickname.
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If you're texting Magnus to say 'I think u r kewl,' I'm going to kill you."
"Who's Magnus?" Max...
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Usually I'm remarkably good natured. Try me on a day that doesn't end in y.
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Out of the corner of her eye she thought she saw Jace shoot her a look of white rage - but when she ...
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Investigation?" Isabelle laughed. "Now we're detectives? Maybe we should all have code names."
...
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You guessed? You must have been pretty sure, considering you could have killed me."
"I was nine...
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One of the Silent Brothers is here to see you. Hodge sent me to wake you up. Actually he offered to ...
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Don't order any of the faerie food," said Jace, looking at her over the top of his menu. "It tends t...
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I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass.
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You said you were going for a walk!? What kind of walk takes six hours?"
"A long one?
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Is this the part where you say if I hurt her, you'll kill me?"
"No" Simon said, "If you hurt Cl...
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Not everything is about you," Clary said furiously.
"Possibly," Jace said, "but you do have to ...
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I am a man" he told her, "and men do not consume pink beverages. Get thee gone woman, and bring me s...
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Malachi scowled. "I don't remember the Clave inviting you into the Glass City, Magnus Bane."
"T...
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to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.
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Look, it's easy to outsmart a werewolf or a vampire," Jace said. "They're no smarter than anyone els...
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She had always wanted a brother. And she had one now. Sebastian. It was like always wanting a puppy ...
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Nicely done, brother," said Gabriel from the bed, blinking sleepy green eyes at Gideon.
Gideon ...
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And yet here he was, looking at Jem Carstairs, a boy so fragile-looking that he appeared to be made ...
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Don't touch any of my weapons without my permission."
"Well, there goes my plan for selling the...
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I thought I'd lie on the floor and writhe in pain for a while," he grunted, "It relaxes me."
"I...
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You're so easy to tease. And yes, your friend is just fine. Well, except that he keeps putting all m...
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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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Some guys look at you like they only want sex. Jace looks at you like you've had sex - it was great ...
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Look," Luke went on, "In all the years I've known him, there's always been exactly one place Simon w...
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Jace slammed his hand down on the stele. “Clary-“
“She said she doesn’t want it,” sai...
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I was alive when the Dead Sea was just a lake that was feeling a little poorly.
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Even the Inquisitor's eyebrows shot up when Magnus strode through the gate. The High Warlock was wea...
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I've heard the word 'fear'. I simply choose to believe it doesn't apply to me.
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How awfully convenient for you, regardless. And for him. He won't have to worry about you spilling h...
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Is there some particular reason that you're here?" ...
"Not this again."
"Not what again?"...
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There's no need to clarify my finger snap," said Magnus. "The implication was clear in the snap itse...
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We need to talk. All of us About what we're going to do now."
"I was going to watch Project Run...
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Alec looked at her and shook his head. "How do you manage never to get mud on your clothes?"
Is...
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You might want to lie down," Magnus advised. "I find that it helps when the crushing sense of horrib...
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I'll just have them change the entry in the demonology textbook from 'almost extinct' to 'not extinc...
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Isabelle drifted over, Jace a pace behind her. She was wearing a long black dress with boots and an ...
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Is standing by the window muttering about blood something he does all the time?" asked Simon.
"...
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No, I'm just a very naughty boy. I do all sorts of bad things. I kick kittens. I make rude gestures ...
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You see, cuckoos are parasites. They lay their eggs in other birds' nests. When the egg hatches, the...
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Mom. I have something to tell you. I’m undead. Now, I know you may have some preconceived notions ...
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I've got a stele we can use. Who wants to do me?"
"A regrettable choice of words," muttered Mag...
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That does it," said Jace. "I'm going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year."
"Why?" I...
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Well, I’m not kissing the mundane," said Jace. "I’d rather stay down here and rot."
"Foreve...
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We came to see Jace. Is he alright?"
"I don't know," Magnus said. "Does he normally just lie on...
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I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his ...
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Is this the part where you start tearing off strips of your shirt to bind my wounds?"
"If you w...
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Jesus!" Luke exclaimed.
"Actually, it's just me," said Simon. "Although I've been told the rese...
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There is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I d...
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Have you fallen in love with the wrong person yet?'
Jace said, "Unfortunately, Lady of the Have...
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There's nothing wrong with George. It is not possible to find fault with George. He's a perfect Scot...
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So you're a Shadowhunter,' Nate said. 'De Quincey told me that you lot were monsters.'
'Was tha...
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Pretty soon the only people left without a girlfriend will be me and Wendell the school janitor, and...
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We're not dating," Alec said again.
"Oh?" Magnus said. "So you're just that friendly with every...
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Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.
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One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power...
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Will’s voice dropped. “Everyone makes mistakes, Jem.”
“Yes,” said Jem. “You just ma...
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As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?
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All knowledge hurts.
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Later, when his father left him, the boy cried over his pet, until eventually his father sent a serv...
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Will-," Tessa began but it was too late, Church made a yowling noise at being woken, and lashed out ...
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Church was doing what he often did when dropped - lying on his back with all four legs in the air, p...
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Clary felt suddenly annoyed. "When the self-congratulatory part of the evening is over, maybe we cou...
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Jace?"
"Yeah?"
"How did you know I had Shadowhunter blood? Was there some way you could te...
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A Mark that spoke of loss was still a Mark, a remembrance. You could not lose something you never ha...
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We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who lov...
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Actually," said Jace, "I prefer to think that I'm a liar in a way that's uniquely my own.
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Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave on...
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We live and breathe words. .... It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alo...
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They say you cannot love two people equally at once,” she said. “And perhaps for others that is ...
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Whatever you are physically...male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy--all those things matte...
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What do you want?"
"Just coffee. Black - like my soul.
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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 for...
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A pair of werewolves occupied another booth. They were eating raw shanks of lamb and arguing about w...
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Hearts are breakable," Isabelle said. "And I think even when you heal, you're never what you were be...
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They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite
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The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me.
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And I'm suppose to sit by while you date boys and fall in love with someone else, get married...?" H...
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He is a Shadowhunter,” said Jocelyn. “His loyalty will be to Clave and Covenant.”
“He�...
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Just take the weapon you hold in your hand and drive it through his heart," Valentine's voice was so...
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Wear that scarf," he said, pointing to a blue cashmere scarf hanging on a peg. "It matches your eyes...
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Must you go? I was rather hoping you'd stay and be a ministering angel, but if you must go, you must...
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Goodness," Tessa said to the back of his head. "If you keep seeing Six-Fingered Nigel like this, he'...
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Blue does not go with everything," Will told her. "It does not go with red, for instance."
"I ...
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I see you're determined to miss my point."
"If you're point is that there was a pretty girl in ...
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Do reasons matter when there's nothing that can be done to change things.
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Tessa poked at her left incisor with her tongue. It was flat again, an ordinary tooth. "I don't unde...
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So you don't ever get angry at him?"
Jem laughed out loud. "I would hardly say that. Som...
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Will smiled the way Lucifer might have smiled, moments before he fell from Heaven.
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When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is no...
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Drowning yourself won't help, she told herself sternly. Now, drowning Will, on the other hand...
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A little girl robbed you?" Tessa said.
"Actually, she wasn’t a little girl at all, as it turn...
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Jessamine recoiled from the paper as if it were a snake. "A lady does not read the newspaper. The so...
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Black hair and blue eyes are my favorite combination.
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That was enterprising," Will sounded nearly impressed.
Nate smiled. Tess shot him a furious loo...
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Will rolled up his sleeves. "We'll probably have to knock down the door--"
"Or," said Jem, rea...
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Well, she's not responding to my advances," he observed more brightly than he felt, "so she must be ...
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Sometimes, when I have to do something I don't want to do, I pretend I'm a character from a book. It...
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Let me give you a piece of advice. The handsome young fellow who's trying to rescue you from a hideo...
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Are you implying that shreds of my reputation remain intact?" Will demanded with mock horror. "Clear...
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If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?
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You know," Gabriel said, "there was a time I thought we could be friends, Will."

"There w...
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It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. ...
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Will looked horrified. "What kind of monster could possibly hate chocolate?
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Remember when you tried to convince me to feed a poultry pie to the mallards in the park to see if y...
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Don't you think 'Mark is kind of a weird name for a Shadowhunter?" Julian was saying as Emma approac...
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What did Isabelle want?" Jace asked.
Alec hesitated. "Isabelle says the Queen of the Seelie Cou...
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Will suspected Jem was in fact cleverer than he was himself - but he lacked Will's tendency to assum...
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So it's true what they say about warlocks, then?"
Alec gave him a very unpleasant look. "Wha...
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