I understand what you mean about Will, but Will was lonely and wretched in the days when he behaved badly. James has been wrapped in love all his life.”

“Betrayed!” Will muttered. “Cruelly maligned by my friend and now by my own cherished wife, scorned, my name blackened—”

“I see you are still fond of histrionics, Will,” said Magnus. “As well as still handsome.


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"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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What I actually want to call you is a hell of a lot more unprintable than your name
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Magnus raised his hands above his head and clapped once. The room flooded with light. "You see? You ...
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I can't believe he didn't have the dignity and presence of mind just to get drunk and pass out in so...
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If you're texting Magnus to say 'I think u r kewl' I'm going to kill you
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My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health.
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Isabelle snorted, "All the boys are gay. In this truck, anyway. Well, not you, Simon."
"...
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Jem gave her a wistful look. “Must you go? I was rather hoping that you’d stay and be a minister...
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And now," Eric yelled into his mircophone, "we're going to sing a new song-one we just wrote. This o...
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Take off your shirt."
Jace raised his eyebrows.
"I'm not going to attack you," she said i...
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Other crack teams get bat boomerangs and wall-climbing powers; we get Aquatruck.
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I've got the Mark of Cain," said Simon. "That means nothing can kill me, right?"
"You can kill ...
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aren't you, uh... reproducing?

"sure, we love reproducing it's one of our favorite things...
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Tessa touched his wrist lightly with her hand. "Be brave," she said. "It's not a duck, is it?
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I don't want tea," said Clary, with muffled force. "I want to find my mother. And then I want to fin...
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One does no question miracles, or complain that they are no constructed perfectly to one's liking.
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He made it very clear that he didn’t want me here,” she said at last. “That my remaining at th...
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Eternity is a long time to spend alone, without others of your kind.
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Jace broke off the kiss and stepped back with an exhale; before Clary could say anything, a chorus o...
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You could have fooled me. Everytime I called you, Luke said you were sick. I figured you were avoidi...
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I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or ...
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What's this?" he demanded, looking from Clary to his companions, as if they might know what she was ...
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Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.
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You could have had anything else in the world, and you asked for me."
She smiled up at him. Fil...
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And now I’m looking at you,” he said, “and you’re asking me if I still want you, as if I cou...
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In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn't matter how hard it was to make it. It matter...
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When you love someone, they become a part of who you are. They’re in everything you do. They’re ...
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Do not let any of them tell you who you are. You are the flame that cannot be put out. You are the s...
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Every decision you make, makes you. Never let other people choose who you’re going to be.
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Your place is with me," Jem said. "It always Will be.
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You sound as if you don't mind what happens to it," said Tessa. "Won't you miss it here? This place ...
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It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me...
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People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you l...
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Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.
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You've always been what you are. That's not new. What you'll get used to is knowing it.
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One finds nobility in the oddest places.
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Patience, grasshopper," said Maia. "Good things come to those who wait."
"I always thought that...
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If I made a joke about just dropping by, would you write me off as cliché?
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I've never minded it," he went on. "Being lost, that is. I had always thought one could not truly be...
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Will tossed the bloody cloth aside. “And you wonder why we aren’t friends.”
“I just wo...
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It was odd, (Tessa thought), what brought out tenderness in people.
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You're not gay, are you?"
Simon's greenish color deepened. "If I were, I would dress better.
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Is this Clarissa Fray?" The voice on the other end of the phone sounded familiar, though not immedia...
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I learned to play the instruments of war," he said, "and paint in blood.
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The first morning Simon had been at Amatis's house, a grinning lycanthrope had showed up on the door...
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And second, keep in mind that you are a weapon. In theory, when you're done with training, you shoul...
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So--what's it like, being a vampire?"

"Aline!" Isabelle looked appalled. "You can't just ...
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Fresh is better. But you've never drunk fresh blood. Have you?"
Simon raised his eyebrow in res...
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Happy birthday, Alexander," Magnus murmured.
"Thanks for remembering," Alec whispered back.
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While the Clave disapproves of trespassers, oddly they take an even darker view of beheading and ski...
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I'm sorry. I use my rapier wit to hide my inner pain.
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By the Angel," Jace said, looking the demon up and down. "I knew Greater Demons were meant to be ugl...
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It’s fascinating. You know all these words, and they’re all English, but when you string them to...
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Sebastian just smiled. “I could hear your heart beating,” he said softly. “When you were watch...
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Don't tell me," Jace said, "Simon's turned himself into an ocelot and you want me to do something ab...
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Don't stop there. I suppose there are also, what, vampires and werewolves and zombies?"
"Of cou...
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A lot of people have asked me about some of the characters that appear in 'Clockwork Prince,'...
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Fate is never fair. You are caught in a current much stronger than you are; struggle against it and ...
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Do you remember,” he said, “when we first met and I told you I was ninety percent sure putting a...
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Alec muttered a retort into his coffee. It rhymed with something that sounded a lot more like "ducki...
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[Julian]"Remember, Mark is in charge.”
“Does he know that?” said Livvy.
Julian sough...
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Do you remember back at the hotel when you promised that if we lived, you’d get dressed up in a nu...
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The more beautiful the skin is, the more deadly it is. That's what Will's like. All that pretty face...
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I'm not unhappy," he said. "Only people with no purpose are unhappy. I've got a purpose.
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How rude. Many who have gazed upon me have compared the experience to gazing
at the radiance of...
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It wasn’t sexy," he said.
“It was a little sexy,” Simon said.
He felt much better, ...
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Isabelle waved a hand. "No need to worry, big brother. Nothing happened. Of course," she added as Al...
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The light that burned twice as bright burned half as long.
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