I found the poems in the fields,
And only wrote them down.
John Clare
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I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES There lived a poet in the lands of gold,
Wrote along poems unaffected by warmth or cold,
H...
ADHISH MAZUMDER It seems like all the best people have all the worst habits.
THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER If I were John Lennon
And my feelings for you grew,
I'd have left The Beatles
To spen...
LISA SWERLING Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That...
KAHLIL GIBRAN I wrote simple poems with deep meaning instead of confusing poems that no one understands.
JEFFERY SMITH I, Phoebus, sang those songs that gained so much renown
I, Phoebus, sang them; Homer only wrote th...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
VIRGINIA WOOLF I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected the...
CARL SANDBURG We've still got to play Clare, Roscommon and Gladwin, but for (Houghton Lake), this is really big. T...
PAUL REID Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF I only wrote prose before I met you.
My musings were superfluous and serious as well.
Bu...
KAMAND KOJOURI I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat do...
JACK PRELUTSKY I've always been somebody who wrote down my feelings and I've always liked to write. I never did any...
DANIEL POUND It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for ...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myse...
NATASHA TRETHEWEY my poems are only bits of scratching
on the floor of a
cage.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI some winters
will never melt
some summers
will never freeze
and some...
SANOBER KHAN Humanity i love you because you
are perpetually putting the secret of
life in your pants a...
E.E. CUMMINGS Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON True terror isn’t being scared; it’s not having a choice on the matter.
JOHN GREEN I is the hardest word to define.
JOHN GREEN Break hearts, not promises.
JOHN GREEN I wrote two poems about the '81 uprisings: 'Di Great Insohreckshan' and 'Mekin Histr...
LINTON KWESI JOHNSON Up and down, up and down
I will lead them up and down
I am feared in field in town
Go...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Is it still cool to go to the mall?' she asked. 'I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what's c...
JOHN GREEN I imagined the Augustus Waters analysis of that comment: If I am playing basketball in heaven, does ...
JOHN GREEN All salvation is temporary," Augustus shot back. "I bought them a minute. Maybe that's the minute th...
JOHN GREEN That's why I like you. Do you realize how rare it is to come across a hot girl who creates a adjecti...
JOHN GREEN We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.
JOHN GREEN It's just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.'
'Right, i...
JOHN GREEN It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the ...
JOHN GREEN I'm on a rollercoaster that only goes up
JOHN GREEN I want to see you again tonight, but I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow - Augustus W...
JOHN GREEN I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.
JOHN GREEN I just held her hand and tried to imagine the world without us and for about one second I was a good...
JOHN GREEN Girls think they’re only allowed to wear dresses on formal occasions, but I like a woman who says,...
JOHN GREEN I am in the midst of a soliloquy! I wrote this out and memorized it and if you interrupt me I will c...
JOHN GREEN you gave me a forever within the numbered days and i can't tell you how thankful i am for our little...
JOHN GREEN I’ve stopped thinking about it. I don’t have time to have a girlfriend. I have like a full-time ...
JOHN GREEN My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.
JOHN GREEN I pulled the oxygen tubes from my nostrils and raised the tube up over my head, handing it to Dad. I...
JOHN GREEN He took a long drink, then grimaced. “I do not have a drinking problem,” he announced, his voice...
JOHN GREEN Thank you for wearing that dress which is like whoa.
JOHN GREEN I want to minimize the deaths I am responsible for.
JOHN GREEN The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But I believe in true love, you know? I don’t believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or no...
JOHN GREEN I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is improbably biased toward conscio...
JOHN GREEN Even though I was in bed and he was in his basement, it really felt like we were back in that uncrea...
JOHN GREEN …iubirea mea, nu-ți pot spune cât de recunoscătoare sunt pentru mica noastră infinitate. N-aș...
JOHN GREEN I prefer the absurdity of writing poems
to the absurdity of not writing poems.
WISłAWA SZYMBORSKA As I remember, the first real poem I wrote was about the wheat fields between Spokane and Pullman, t...
CAROLYN KIZER Jane,' she said, climbing down from the chair. 'Remember last year when I built that model wind towe...
JEANNE BIRDSALL Poems can get
sleepless too
and become
the loneliest thing
in the un...
SANOBER KHAN Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON Some infinities are bigger than other infinities."
-John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
JOHN GREEN It is strange to hear my words
Read back to me.
I don't think I wrote them
To h...
STASIA WARD KEHOE In 1977, I wrote a series of poems about a character, Black Bart, a former cattle rustler-turned-alc...
AUGUST WILSON Your eyes are like heavy rain
falling from pregnant clouds.
With one glance, you washed ...
KAMAND KOJOURI your gaze
across
my cheeks
turned them
into
strawberry fields.
SANOBER KHAN In my loneliness…I found you
In my darkness... I found you
In my insanity…. I found yo...
AVIJEET DAS We never really talked much or even looked at each other, but it didn't matter because we were looki...
JOHN GREEN Adults think they're wielding power, but really power is wielding them
JOHN GREEN I just wrote 'Merry Christmas John' on my balloon.
JAMES ANDREWS I always knew that I was tremendously creative. I recited love poems, I wrote stories and I got exce...
SHAKIRA Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the St...
JOHN GREEN A day after I got my eye cut out, Gus showed up at the hospital. I was blind and heart-broken and di...
JOHN GREEN As the tide washed in, the Dutch Tulip Man faced the Ocean:
"Conjoiner rejoinder poisoner conce...
JOHN GREEN And then the line was quite but not dead. I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in...
JOHN GREEN I wanted to know that he would be okay if I died. I wanted to not be a grenade, to not be a malevole...
JOHN GREEN I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the con...
JOHN GREEN Augustus Waters was a self-aggrandizing bastard. But we forgive him. We forgive him not because he h...
JOHN GREEN As he read, I feel in love the way you fall asleep: slow, and then all at once.
JOHN GREEN My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They’re made of me as surely as my brain and my heart ...
JOHN GREEN I did some research on this a couple years ago," Augustus continued. "I was wondering if everybody c...
JOHN GREEN The whole thing was the precise opposite of what I figured it would be: slow and patient and quiet a...
JOHN GREEN Her primary reason for living and my primary reason for living were awfully entangled.
JOHN GREEN All efforts to save me from you will fail, he said
JOHN GREEN It’s hard as hell to hold on to your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes
JOHN GREEN Sería un honor tener el corazón roto por ti, Hazel Grace.
JOHN GREEN A maidenhead, the virgin's trouble
Is well-compare-d to a bubble
on a navigable river
JOHN CLARE I don't know why Sinclair Lewis fell in love with me. He didn't get even the slightest respo...
FAY WRAY She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING Adults don't take fairy tales seriously but just see them as reading for children. I have found fert...
DAISUKE TAKAHASHI I've told you I don't live and die by the polls. Thus, I will refrain from pointing out that we're n...
, IN THE NEW REPUBLIC The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
A. WHITNEY BROWN I just wrote 'Merry Christmas John' on my balloon. I love the Beatles and especially John Lennon. My...
JAMES ANDREWS The only legacy I seek is the one that any grandparent seeks - that is, to hand off our nation... ou...
SONNY PERDUE In the beginning, I wrote OK songs, but they didn't have a unique perspective.
KACEY MUSGRAVES Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you fore defeated
Challengers of oblivion
Eat c...
ROBINSON JEFFERS But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin...
GEORGE SAINTSBURY You and I are just kids. We've got the best and the worst of it in front of us
JOHN GREEN Photographs are just light and time" - Aza Holmes
JOHN GREEN Every loss is unprecedented. You can't ever know someone else's hurt, not really - just like touchin...
JOHN GREEN In the best conversations, you don't even remember what you talked about, only how it felt. It felt ...
JOHN GREEN Holmesy, you okay?" Daisy asked. I nodded. Sometimes I wondered why she liked me, or at least tolera...
JOHN GREEN Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE You know the way people begin to look like their dogs? Well, we're beginning to look like each other...
JOHN LENNON A fire, a fire is burning! I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face! And it is my face, and...
ARTHUR MILLER John (the Baptist) stands as prophets do to this very day, as an unyielding presence unsettling us a...
EUGENE KENNEDY
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Her death-bed steeps in tears; to hail the May
New blo...
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JOHN CLARE Tasteful illumination of the night,
Bright scattered, twinkling star of spangled earth.
JOHN CLARE If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.
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The smallest breeze can find a tongue,
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Thy memory, like t...
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Farmers behind the tavern screen
Collect; with elbows idly ...
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JOHN CLARE Language has not the power to speak what love indites: The soul lies buried in the ink that writes
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JOHN CLARE A maidenhead, the virgin's trouble
Is well-compare-d to a bubble
on a navigable river
JOHN CLARE I ne'er was struck before that hour
With love so sudden and so sweet, her face it bloomed like ...
JOHN CLARE I sleep with thee, and wake with thee,
And yet thou are not there;
I fill my arms with tho...
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JOHN CLARE He could not die when trees were green, / For he loved the time too well.
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JOHN CLARE Into the nothingness of scorn and noise,
Into the living sea of waking dreams,
Where the...
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CASSANDRA CLARE And the Clave wants to meet Clarissa. You know that, Jace."
"The Clave can screw itself."
...
CASSANDRA CLARE Because that was what you did with family when you'd been worried about them, you grabbed them and h...
CASSANDRA CLARE You’re here!” Isabelle danced up to them in delight, carrying a glass of fuchsia liquid, which s...
CASSANDRA CLARE Magnus gazed dreamily in his direction. "You should leave him here. I could hang hats on him and thi...
CASSANDRA CLARE Look, did you ask me to come all the way uptown just so you could stare at me like I was something i...
CASSANDRA CLARE The way he looked at you. I got it then. He loved you, and it was killing him. He won't get over you...
CASSANDRA CLARE I forgot that's what gets you all hot and bothered, Jace, girls killing things."
"I like anyone...
CASSANDRA CLARE You know, some people think Shadowhunters are just myths. Like mummies and genies." Kyle grinned at ...
CASSANDRA CLARE Demon pox, oh demon pox
Just how is it acquired?
One must go down to the bad part of town<...
CASSANDRA CLARE But-" Maia, still looking at Alec and Magnus, broke off and rasied her eyebrows. Simon turned to see...
CASSANDRA CLARE You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.
CASSANDRA CLARE I figured all your classes were stuff like Slaughter 101 and Beheading for Beginners."
Jace fli...
CASSANDRA CLARE A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance covers?
CASSANDRA CLARE Did you ever think that in a past life Alec was an old woman with ninety cats who was always yelling...
CASSANDRA CLARE You're just worried they'll hire a male instructor and he'll be hotter than you."
Jace's eyebr...
CASSANDRA CLARE Magnus's eyes went back to Alec. They were gold-green, as unreadable as the eyes of the cat he held ...
CASSANDRA CLARE I have a feeling you're right, Sherwin.'
'Simon. My name is Simon.
CASSANDRA CLARE Get over here. Sheldon's had an idea."
"Who's Sheldon?", said Isabelle.
CASSANDRA CLARE Excellent. I've been told I have a lovely, melodic reading voice." He flipped the book open to the f...
CASSANDRA CLARE She turned and looked at him. "Ducks?" she said again.
A smile tugged the edge of his mouth. "I...
CASSANDRA CLARE I don't care," Clary said. "He'd do it for me. Tell me he wouldn't. If I were missing-"
"He'd ...
CASSANDRA CLARE Isabelle snorted. 'All the boys are gay. In this truck, anyway. Well, not you, Simon.'
'You not...
CASSANDRA CLARE You never called me back," he said. "I called you so many times and you never called me back."
...
CASSANDRA CLARE With Jace, you don't really get to choose your insulting nickname.
CASSANDRA CLARE If you're texting Magnus to say 'I think u r kewl,' I'm going to kill you."
"Who's Magnus?" Max...
CASSANDRA CLARE Usually I'm remarkably good natured. Try me on a day that doesn't end in y.
CASSANDRA CLARE Out of the corner of her eye she thought she saw Jace shoot her a look of white rage - but when she ...
CASSANDRA CLARE Investigation?" Isabelle laughed. "Now we're detectives? Maybe we should all have code names."
...
CASSANDRA CLARE You guessed? You must have been pretty sure, considering you could have killed me."
"I was nine...
CASSANDRA CLARE One of the Silent Brothers is here to see you. Hodge sent me to wake you up. Actually he offered to ...
CASSANDRA CLARE Don't order any of the faerie food," said Jace, looking at her over the top of his menu. "It tends t...
CASSANDRA CLARE I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass.
CASSANDRA CLARE You said you were going for a walk!? What kind of walk takes six hours?"
"A long one?
CASSANDRA CLARE Is this the part where you say if I hurt her, you'll kill me?"
"No" Simon said, "If you hurt Cl...
CASSANDRA CLARE Not everything is about you," Clary said furiously.
"Possibly," Jace said, "but you do have to ...
CASSANDRA CLARE I am a man" he told her, "and men do not consume pink beverages. Get thee gone woman, and bring me s...
CASSANDRA CLARE Malachi scowled. "I don't remember the Clave inviting you into the Glass City, Magnus Bane."
"T...
CASSANDRA CLARE You come across words all the time that are everyday sexism. I was described as 'competently bos...
CLARE BALDING to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.
CASSANDRA CLARE I mean that the time where we need International agreement more than ever on the environment and the...
CLARE SHORT Look, it's easy to outsmart a werewolf or a vampire," Jace said. "They're no smarter than anyone els...
CASSANDRA CLARE She had always wanted a brother. And she had one now. Sebastian. It was like always wanting a puppy ...
CASSANDRA CLARE Nicely done, brother," said Gabriel from the bed, blinking sleepy green eyes at Gideon.
Gideon ...
CASSANDRA CLARE And yet here he was, looking at Jem Carstairs, a boy so fragile-looking that he appeared to be made ...
CASSANDRA CLARE Don't touch any of my weapons without my permission."
"Well, there goes my plan for selling the...
CASSANDRA CLARE I thought I'd lie on the floor and writhe in pain for a while," he grunted, "It relaxes me."
"I...
CASSANDRA CLARE You're so easy to tease. And yes, your friend is just fine. Well, except that he keeps putting all m...
CASSANDRA CLARE I don't do what I'm told, but I might do what you want if you ask me nicely.
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CASSANDRA CLARE Jace slammed his hand down on the stele. “Clary-“
“She said she doesn’t want it,” sai...
CASSANDRA CLARE I was alive when the Dead Sea was just a lake that was feeling a little poorly.
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CASSANDRA CLARE I've heard the word 'fear'. I simply choose to believe it doesn't apply to me.
CASSANDRA CLARE How awfully convenient for you, regardless. And for him. He won't have to worry about you spilling h...
CASSANDRA CLARE Is there some particular reason that you're here?" ...
"Not this again."
"Not what again?"...
CASSANDRA CLARE There's no need to clarify my finger snap," said Magnus. "The implication was clear in the snap itse...
CASSANDRA CLARE We need to talk. All of us About what we're going to do now."
"I was going to watch Project Run...
CASSANDRA CLARE Alec looked at her and shook his head. "How do you manage never to get mud on your clothes?"
Is...
CASSANDRA CLARE You might want to lie down," Magnus advised. "I find that it helps when the crushing sense of horrib...
CASSANDRA CLARE I'll just have them change the entry in the demonology textbook from 'almost extinct' to 'not extinc...
CASSANDRA CLARE Isabelle drifted over, Jace a pace behind her. She was wearing a long black dress with boots and an ...
CASSANDRA CLARE Is standing by the window muttering about blood something he does all the time?" asked Simon.
"...
CASSANDRA CLARE No, I'm just a very naughty boy. I do all sorts of bad things. I kick kittens. I make rude gestures ...
CASSANDRA CLARE You see, cuckoos are parasites. They lay their eggs in other birds' nests. When the egg hatches, the...
CASSANDRA CLARE Mom. I have something to tell you. I’m undead. Now, I know you may have some preconceived notions ...
CASSANDRA CLARE I've got a stele we can use. Who wants to do me?"
"A regrettable choice of words," muttered Mag...
CASSANDRA CLARE That does it," said Jace. "I'm going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year."
"Why?" I...
CASSANDRA CLARE Well, I’m not kissing the mundane," said Jace. "I’d rather stay down here and rot."
"Foreve...
CASSANDRA CLARE We came to see Jace. Is he alright?"
"I don't know," Magnus said. "Does he normally just lie on...
CASSANDRA CLARE I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his ...
CASSANDRA CLARE Is this the part where you start tearing off strips of your shirt to bind my wounds?"
"If you w...
CASSANDRA CLARE Jesus!" Luke exclaimed.
"Actually, it's just me," said Simon. "Although I've been told the rese...
CASSANDRA CLARE There is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I d...
CASSANDRA CLARE Have you fallen in love with the wrong person yet?'
Jace said, "Unfortunately, Lady of the Have...
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CASSANDRA CLARE So you're a Shadowhunter,' Nate said. 'De Quincey told me that you lot were monsters.'
'Was tha...
CASSANDRA CLARE Pretty soon the only people left without a girlfriend will be me and Wendell the school janitor, and...
CASSANDRA CLARE We're not dating," Alec said again.
"Oh?" Magnus said. "So you're just that friendly with every...
CASSANDRA CLARE Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.
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CASSANDRA CLARE Will’s voice dropped. “Everyone makes mistakes, Jem.”
“Yes,” said Jem. “You just ma...
CASSANDRA CLARE As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?
CASSANDRA CLARE All knowledge hurts.
CASSANDRA CLARE Later, when his father left him, the boy cried over his pet, until eventually his father sent a serv...
CASSANDRA CLARE Will-," Tessa began but it was too late, Church made a yowling noise at being woken, and lashed out ...
CASSANDRA CLARE Church was doing what he often did when dropped - lying on his back with all four legs in the air, p...
CASSANDRA CLARE Clary felt suddenly annoyed. "When the self-congratulatory part of the evening is over, maybe we cou...
CASSANDRA CLARE Jace?"
"Yeah?"
"How did you know I had Shadowhunter blood? Was there some way you could te...
CASSANDRA CLARE A Mark that spoke of loss was still a Mark, a remembrance. You could not lose something you never ha...
CASSANDRA CLARE We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who lov...
CASSANDRA CLARE Actually," said Jace, "I prefer to think that I'm a liar in a way that's uniquely my own.
CASSANDRA CLARE Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave on...
CASSANDRA CLARE We live and breathe words. .... It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alo...
CASSANDRA CLARE They say you cannot love two people equally at once,” she said. “And perhaps for others that is ...
CASSANDRA CLARE Whatever you are physically...male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy--all those things matte...
CASSANDRA CLARE What do you want?"
"Just coffee. Black - like my soul.
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CASSANDRA CLARE They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite
CASSANDRA CLARE The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me.
CASSANDRA CLARE And I'm suppose to sit by while you date boys and fall in love with someone else, get married...?" H...
CASSANDRA CLARE He is a Shadowhunter,” said Jocelyn. “His loyalty will be to Clave and Covenant.”
“He�...
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CASSANDRA CLARE Wear that scarf," he said, pointing to a blue cashmere scarf hanging on a peg. "It matches your eyes...
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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