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Mom actually said that?" Cassie's face shown with happiness. "She always hated my math!"

"Nah," Martin said. "She was just being that way for you. She thought it was what you needed to hear. If parents told us what they really think about stuff, we could figure them out like regular people.


Clare B. Dunkle

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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