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I've never felt so... light.


Cassandra Clare

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Fate is never fair. You are caught in a current much stronger than you are; struggle against it and ...
CASSANDRA CLARE How rude. Many who have gazed upon me have compared the experience to gazing
at the radiance of...
CASSANDRA CLARE Hate is nothing when weighed against survival. (Valentine)
CASSANDRA CLARE If you were half as funny as you think you are, you'd be twice as funny as you really are.
H.N. TURTELTAUB And Jessamine-Jessamine was gazing at her in abject horror, like someone who has seen a vision of th...
CASSANDRA CLARE I don't hate you, Jace."
"I don't hate you, either."
She looked up at him, relieved. "I'm ...
CASSANDRA CLARE Magnus glanced at Alec and raised his eyebrows "Boo", he said. Jace was grinning. "Come on,surely yo...
CASSANDRA CLARE Lord, you're Irish," said Will. "Can you make things that don't have potatoes in them? We had an Iri...
CASSANDRA CLARE Mother." Alec's voice as he interrupted his mother was firm, implacable, and not
unkind. "Fathe...
CASSANDRA CLARE Jace threw his hands up. "So it doesn't work."
"Not necessarily," Luke said. "There might simpl...
CASSANDRA CLARE It was odd, (Tessa thought), what brought out tenderness in people.
CASSANDRA CLARE I have lost everything. Lost everything.
Everything. - William Herondale
CASSANDRA CLARE Sed lex, dura lex
CASSANDRA CLARE Will, the boy who loved the same books she did, the same poetry she did, who made her laugh even whe...
CASSANDRA CLARE The funny thing about mundies is how obsessed with magic they are for a bunch of people who don't ev...
CASSANDRA CLARE I dont believe in luck. Ive only ever felt lucky finding God and even that was not by chance.
MEG NEZAJ If you're texting Magnus to say 'I think u r kewl' I'm going to kill you
CASSANDRA CLARE It is unusual,” said Cristina, “for a revolution to call for fewer rights for people, not more.
CASSANDRA CLARE When you love someone, you don't have a choice. Love takes your choices away.
- Clary Fray
CASSANDRA CLARE Being Jem, Tessa reflected, must be a great deal like being the owner of a thouroughbred dog that li...
CASSANDRA CLARE Change is not always accomplished peacefully, but that does not make it disadventageous.
CASSANDRA CLARE What did Isabelle want?" Jace asked.
Alec hesitated. "Isabelle says the Queen of the Seelie Cou...
CASSANDRA CLARE WHO CALLS UPON THE HIGH WARLOCK?
CASSANDRA CLARE He slid his stele across the table toward her. "Use it." "No," Clary said, and pushed the stele back...
CASSANDRA CLARE Have a little faith in my magic fingers
CASSANDRA CLARE Ive never known a person to live to one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.
JOSH BILLINGS firestar: jayfeather what does mallow look like?
jayfeather: i dont know, ive never seen any
ERIN HUNTER Don't order any of the faerie food," said Jace, looking at her over the top of his menu. "It tends t...
CASSANDRA CLARE The more beautiful the skin is, the more deadly it is. That's what Will's like. All that pretty face...
CASSANDRA CLARE The light that burned twice as bright burned half as long.
CASSANDRA CLARE There are so many worse things than death. Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse.
CASSANDRA CLARE The Law is hard, but it is the Law.
CASSANDRA CLARE And when I saw him[my father] lying dead in a pool of his own blood, I knew then that I hadn't stopp...
CASSANDRA CLARE If there were such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood.
CASSANDRA CLARE When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, and then throw it in the face of the person who gave you ...
CASSANDRA CLARE Your angel cannot protect you against that which neither god nor the devil had made
CASSANDRA CLARE London

The Institute

Year of Our Lord 1878


“Mother, Fath...
CASSANDRA CLARE When you love someone, you don't have a choice. Love takes your choices away.
CASSANDRA CLARE That's your truck parked up by the factory isn't it?" Magnus pointed. "It's awfully butch for a book...
CASSANDRA CLARE Never trust a duck.
WILL HERONDALE I'm not unhappy," he said. "Only people with no purpose are unhappy. I've got a purpose.
CASSANDRA CLARE A sort of good-bye without saying good-bye," he said. "It is a reference to a passage in the Bible. ...
CASSANDRA CLARE What’s the Nephilim motto again?”
“ ‘We are dust and shadows,’ ” said Ty, not l...
CASSANDRA CLARE Izzy. My sister. She told me you liked me. Liked me, liked me.”
“Liked you, l...
CASSANDRA CLARE You know Jace Lightwood?" said Emma.
"I-- What?"
"He's famous," Emma said with obvious ama...
CASSANDRA CLARE You said I am a good man," he said. "But I am not that good a man. And I am--I am catastrophically i...
CASSANDRA CLARE Whither thou goest, I will go;
Where thou diest, will I die
And there will I be buried: CASSANDRA CLARE I love you, Clary," he said without looking at her. He was staring out into the church, at the row o...
CASSANDRA CLARE Look. I don’t want to push you into anything, but do you maybe want to —” “Call Magnus? Look...
CASSANDRA CLARE As long as I can dream, I will dream of you.
CASSANDRA CLARE I wish you'd stop desperately trying to get my attention like this," he said. "It's become embarrass...
CASSANDRA CLARE Lightwoods,” Magnus said. “They always have to have the last word.
CASSANDRA CLARE Jace snorted so loudly that she turned on him with a frown. He wiggled his mud-caked fingers at her....
CASSANDRA CLARE If love were food, I would have starved on the bones you gave me
CASSANDRA CLARE Thank you, Codex, because I didn't know what a knife was.
CASSANDRA CLARE We've still got to play Clare, Roscommon and Gladwin, but for (Houghton Lake), this is really big. T...
PAUL REID He was ego-free, which was very rare in the design student world. Most design students had lots of e...
LEANDER KAHNEY Freedom has never felt so good.
ZOE SUGG She's magic, Cassandra. A single flower blooming in an endless desert.
ANNE BISHOP Hes the smartest dog Ive ever had,
PETER GOULD I never felt so good and played so bad.
DUANE STARKS Jace slammed his hand down on the stele. “Clary-“
“She said she doesn’t want it,” sai...
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 He hadn't stopped wanting love. He had simply, somehow, stopped looking.
CASSANDRA CLARE He opened his mouth. The words were there. He was about to say them when a jolt of terror went throu...
CASSANDRA CLARE For that was love, wasnt it--to burn bright in someone else's eyes?
CASSANDRA CLARE To my son,
If you are reading this letter, then I am dead.

I expect to die, if no...
CASSANDRA CLARE You can take your Law," she said in a measured tone, "and shove it right up your-
CASSANDRA CLARE If there is a life after this one, he said, let me meet you in it, James Carstairs.
CASSANDRA CLARE Simon looked from one of them to the other, and shook his head. “ When did you two get so buddy-bu...
CASSANDRA CLARE Love potions? For Will 'erondale? 'Tain't my way to turn down payment, but any man who looks like yo...
CASSANDRA CLARE Jem cried out with all his remaining strength. You cannot go where I am going! Nor would I want that...
CASSANDRA CLARE I always loved you, Will, whatever you did. And now I need you to do for me what I cannot do for mys...
CASSANDRA CLARE For five years it had been his absolute truth. Jem and Will. Will and Jem. Will Herondale lives, the...
CASSANDRA CLARE What I do know is that if we are born again, I will meet you in another life, and if there is a rive...
CASSANDRA CLARE Our hearts, they need a mirror, Tessa. We see our better selves in the eyes of those who love us.
CASSANDRA CLARE Wo men shi jie bai xiong di-we are more than brothers, Will.
CASSANDRA CLARE The Great and Tragic Love of Jonathan Shadowhunter and David the Silent, by Clary Fray, Aged 1...
CASSANDRA CLARE Huh,” said Kit, thinking of the Cold Peace. “Are you a prisoner?”
“No,” said the faer...
CASSANDRA CLARE There are things our souls want, and mine wants you.
CASSANDRA CLARE Making people laugh never felt so good,
DAVE PRICE I've never felt so good in my life,
CLIVE BARKER Light half-believers of our casual creeds, who never deeply felt, nor clearly will d, whose insight ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD When I was a little girl, I used to try and bring sunshine to my mother. I felt so bad that she had ...
SHERRILYN KENYON Eternity is a long time to spend alone, without others of your kind.
CASSANDRA CLARE It wasn’t sexy," he said.
“It was a little sexy,” Simon said.
He felt much better, ...
CASSANDRA CLARE If Jem dies, I cannot be with Tessa,” said Will. “Because it will be as if I were waiting for hi...
CASSANDRA CLARE She knew how breakups went from hearing other girls complain about them. First the pulling away, the...
CASSANDRA CLARE Of course, the guests were also staring because they know of my relationship with Camille, and are w...
CASSANDRA CLARE It is the mundanes who look at me and see something they do not understand—a boy who is not quite ...
CASSANDRA CLARE As the carriage whipped forward, they passed the alley she had spent so many days staring at—it wa...
CASSANDRA CLARE I'm trying to figure out how someone could live in a brothel for a month and not notice. You must be...
CASSANDRA CLARE The morning star isn't a stat," Clary said grumpily. It's a planet. I learned that in astronomy clas...
CASSANDRA CLARE She could ask for anything, she thought dizzily, anything--an end to pain or world hunger or disease...
CASSANDRA CLARE Come back to me, Tessa. Henry said that perhaps, since you had touched the soul of an angel, that yo...
CASSANDRA CLARE Isabelle," she said, lightening her tone with an obvious effort, "your loyalty to your friend is und...
CASSANDRA CLARE Wo ai ni, Tessa,” he whispered. “Wo bu xiang shi qu ni.” She knew, without knowing how she kne...
CASSANDRA CLARE It was hard to live normally when you were constantly pretending you didn't see what was going on in...
CASSANDRA CLARE Gideon Lightwood said he was at the Institute in Madrid. What on earth was he doing there?'
'Fa...
CASSANDRA CLARE Antonio: Will you stay no longer? nor will you not that I go with you?
Sebastian: By your pa...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

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Love didn't make you weak, it made you stronger.
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 to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.
CASSANDRA CLARE 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.
CASSANDRA CLARE Some guys look at you like they only want sex. Jace looks at you like you've had sex - it was great ...
CASSANDRA CLARE Look," Luke went on, "In all the years I've known him, there's always been exactly one place Simon w...
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.
CASSANDRA CLARE Even the Inquisitor's eyebrows shot up when Magnus strode through the gate. The High Warlock was wea...
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...
CASSANDRA CLARE There's nothing wrong with George. It is not possible to find fault with George. He's a perfect Scot...
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.
CASSANDRA CLARE One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power...
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.
CASSANDRA CLARE He'd felt like a jack-o-lantern for the past few days, as if his guts had been yanked out with a for...
CASSANDRA CLARE A pair of werewolves occupied another booth. They were eating raw shanks of lamb and arguing about w...
CASSANDRA CLARE Hearts are breakable," Isabelle said. "And I think even when you heal, you're never what you were be...
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�...
CASSANDRA CLARE Just take the weapon you hold in your hand and drive it through his heart," Valentine's voice was so...
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 If I made a joke about just dropping by, would you write me off as cliché?
CASSANDRA CLARE I've never minded it," he went on. "Being lost, that is. I had always thought one could not truly be...
CASSANDRA CLARE Will tossed the bloody cloth aside. “And you wonder why we aren’t friends.”
“I just wo...
CASSANDRA CLARE It was odd, (Tessa thought), what brought out tenderness in people.
CASSANDRA CLARE You're not gay, are you?"
Simon's greenish color deepened. "If I were, I would dress better.
CASSANDRA CLARE Is this Clarissa Fray?" The voice on the other end of the phone sounded familiar, though not immedia...
CASSANDRA CLARE I learned to play the instruments of war," he said, "and paint in blood.
CASSANDRA CLARE The first morning Simon had been at Amatis's house, a grinning lycanthrope had showed up on the door...
CASSANDRA CLARE And second, keep in mind that you are a weapon. In theory, when you're done with training, you shoul...
CASSANDRA CLARE So--what's it like, being a vampire?"

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