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You come across words all the time that are everyday sexism. I was described as 'competently bos...
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Having thyroid cancer in 2009 really didn't change my life at all. I wish I could say that I had...
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If you are fearful, a horse will back off. If you are calm and confident, it will come forward. For ...
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Being made to feel like an irrelevant child was probably an asset. Benign negligence is not a bad pa...
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I think 'ambitious' is one of those adjectives used for women in a derogatory way.
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Fitting in is boring. But it takes you nearly your whole life to work that out.
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I am many things, but one of the things I am is a lesbian.
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What do you think Willy? [To Willy Carson]
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Swimming and athletics are the big gigs at the Olympic games. Cycling and rowing are pretty big for ...
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I cannot be a placard waver for every campaign; that's why I have mostly kept quiet about gay ma...
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Swimmers provide much healthier role models for teenagers than the catwalk.
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We acknowledge that this has not been an easy decision for FIFA to take, which is all the more reaso...
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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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I mean that the time where we need International agreement more than ever on the environment and the...
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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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I find people interesting. People trying hard are interesting. People with a passion are interesting - whether it's old cars or taxidermy or knitting.

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