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She took out a shiny folded pamphlet, the kind they kept stacked in clear plastic stands in hospital waiting rooms. "How to Come Out to Your Parents," she read out loud. "LUKE. Don't be ridiculous. Simon's not gay, he's a vampire.


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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.
CASSANDRA CLARE