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Jace pulled two razor-edged spinning disks out from under the bed. They were covered in gray cat hair. He blew on them scattering fur. “Chakhrams. Cool. Especially if I meet any demons with serious dander allergies.”
Isabelle thwacked him with the bra.
~pg. 331~


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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.
CASSANDRA CLARE