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What’s the Nephilim motto again?”
“ ‘We are dust and shadows,’ ” said Ty, not looking up from his book.
“Some of us are very handsome dust,” Jace added


Cassandra Clare

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Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows,
Help us to see
That without the dust the rainbow
Would ...
LANGSTON HUGHES We do not start as dust. We do not end as dust. We make more than dust.

That's all we ask...
DAVID LEVITHAN And who shall separate the dust
What later we shall be:
Whose keen discerning eye will scan GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend,
Before we too into the Dust descend;
Dust into...
OMAR KHAYYáM Is Dust immortal then, I ask'd him, so that we may see it blowing through the Centuries? But as Walt...
PETER ACKROYD Let me in the wall
You've built around
We can light a match
And burn it down
Let...
THE CIVIL WARS All of us are taking the night off," Wrath said abruptly. "We need some regroup time."

Rh...
J.R. WARD The troubles of our proud and angry dust
Are from eternity, and shall not fail.
Bear them we...
A.E. HOUSMAN I close my eyes
Only for a moment,
then the moment's gone
All my dreams
Pass be...
KANSAS (BAND) I believe in good and evil," said Jem. "And I believe the soul is eternal. But I don't believe in th...
CASSANDRA CLARE Is there some particular reason that you're here?" ...
"Not this again."
"Not what again?"...
CASSANDRA CLARE You are made
out of comets
and stars.

Do not surround
yourself with those<...
NOOR SHIRAZIE The tyrant is a child of Pride
Who drinks from his sickening cup
Recklessness and vanity,...
SOPHOCLES When your soul and mine
have left our bodies and we are
burried alongside each other,
OMAR KHAYYáM All dust is the same dust.
Temporarily separated
To go peacefully
And enjoy the et...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Well I'm not kissing the mundane," said Jace. "I'd rather stay down here and rot."
"Forever?" s...
CASSANDRA CLARE When someone beats a rug,
the blows are not against the rug,
but against the dust in it.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Isabelle rolled her eyes. "Oh, for the Angel's sake. Look, if there's no other way of getting out of...
CASSANDRA CLARE moon dust in your lungs
stars in your eyes
you are a child of the cosmos
and ruler of...
MEDUESA And when Jace was ten years old, Valentine killed him. Michael,
I mean."
"That sounds like...
CASSANDRA CLARE All are equal
Death lays his icy hand on kings:
Sceptre and crown
Must tumble down,
And...
JAMES SHIRLEY What do you want, MacGuffin, a duel?”
“No.” Julian held out both hands, one palm flat, th...
ABIGAIL ROUX You're Nephilim," he said. "The Clave owes us protection in these circumstances."
...
"I d...
CASSANDRA CLARE We shouldn’t,” protested Isabelle. “The Clave has a plan.”

“The Clave has the c...
CASSANDRA CLARE The way I see it, hard times aren't only about money,
or drought,
or dust.
Hard times...
KAREN HESSE And the days are all dust
and the only thing worse
than losing the trust
of a lover i...
KATE TEMPEST You are a great deal of trouble, Jace herondale.
“So I’ve been told” jace said
CASSANDRA CLARE You may be the only guy my age I've ever met who knows what bergamot is, much less
that it's i...
CASSANDRA CLARE The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree

Has g...
ROBERT FROST Did she help people?" Miss Level added.
...
...
"She made them help one another, she ...
TERRY PRATCHETT Look. I don’t want to push you into anything, but do you maybe want to —” “Call Magnus? Look...
CASSANDRA CLARE Hey," said Jace. who was sitting on an overturned speaker, looking at his cellphone, "do you want to...
CASSANDRA CLARE It's not funny, Jace," Alec interrupted, starting to his feet. "Are you just going to let her stand ...
CASSANDRA CLARE Training?'Clary echoed."But we trained yesterday."
"Some of us have to train everyday,Clary."Ja...
CASSANDRA CLARE How can you not care?"
"Practice," Magnus said, looking back to his book and turning the page.
CASSANDRA CLARE And I know now that all the time I was trying to get
out of the dust,
the fact is,
wh...
KAREN HESSE Its truly ironical how arrogant we are about dust being here and there and end up sleeping in the du...
BINTMALOL It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes risi...
MUHAMMAD IQBAL You think of yourself
as a citizen of the universe.
You think you belong
to this wor...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Watch yourself, Nikolai,” Mal said softly. “Princes bleed just like other men.”
Nikolai p...
LEIGH BARDUGO We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright ...
NEIL GAIMAN Nobody can claim the name of Pedro,
nobody is Rosa or María,
all of us are dust or sand,<...
PABLO NERUDA This time Magnus answered it, his voice booming through the tiny entryway. "WHO DARES DISTURB MY RES...
CASSANDRA CLARE She is happy, for she knows
That her dust is very pretty
DOROTHY PARKER there are some poems
that we leave behind
some that leave us behind

while some ...
SANOBER KHAN Having the infrared data from Spitzer allows us to measure the star formation rates very accurately ...
DAVID KOO What are we drinking to?"
"The living," said Rhy.
"The dead," said Alucard and Lila at the...
V.E. SCHWAB The Queen‘s smile was wide and terrible. “What if I told you she could be freed by a kiss?” CASSANDRA CLARE We've heard them all talk about Dust, and they're so afraid of it, and you know what? We believed th...
PHILIP PULLMAN What are you smiling at?”

I whirled, peering into the gloom. The Darkling’s voice se...
LEIGH BARDUGO Stan's father had told him that, before the money ran out, they had intended to put the statue of th...
STEPHEN KING I saw the prince when I was in Os Alta,” said Ekaterina. “He’s not bad looking.”
“Not...
LEIGH BARDUGO ...stooping very low, He engraves with care
His Name, indelible, upon our dust;
And from t...
PATRICIA ST. JOHN Well, I’m not kissing the mundane," said Jace. "I’d rather stay down here and rot."
"Foreve...
CASSANDRA CLARE Rise Again
One goal goes by the wayside
Some watch sneering arms folded
Laughing at y...
KALEB KILTON Yes," Jace said, "I regret having disobeyed you."
No! Clary thought, but her heart sank. Was he...
CASSANDRA CLARE If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... Jace slammed his hand down on the stele. “Clary-“
“She said she doesn’t want it,” sai...
CASSANDRA CLARE Some are sad.
And some are glad.
And some are very, very bad.


Why are the...
DR. SEUSS Basia coquum," Simon said. "Or whatever their motto is."
"It's 'Descensus Averno facilis est.' ...
CASSANDRA CLARE Come on... come on... I am waiting for answer...
...

Silence doesn't make it... bet...
DEYTH BANGER Before Clary could respond, Jace’s eyes slid open. He looked up at the warlock, dazzled and dizzy....
CASSANDRA CLARE Not everything is about you," Clary said furiously.
"Possibly," Jace said, "but you do have to ...
CASSANDRA CLARE Beauty is but a flower,
Which wrinkles will devour;
Brightness falls from the air;
Queens h...
THOMAS NASH Izzy," said Jace, as they neared the pond, and she jumped up and spun around. Her smile was dazzling...
CASSANDRA CLARE What if they don’t let us go through?” I ask, trying not to move my lips.
“They will,”...
SUSAN EE My
name’s Travis. Travis Maddox.”
I rolled my eyes. “I know who you are.”
...
JAMIE MCGUIRE Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie
Dust unto dust
The calm, sweet earth that mothe...
RALPH CHAPLIN The glories of our blood and state
Are shadows, not substantial things;
There is no armour aga...
JAMES SHIRLEY There’s this thing about shadows.
They mimic us. They are a constant reminder of the fact tha...
CHIRAG TULSIANI What?”
Jace was standing up now.
“When you first step off. Bend the knees right away...
CASSANDRA CLARE Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie--
Dust unto dust--
The calm, sweet earth tha...
RALPH CHAPLIN We are formed by dust, when life ends, we shall we return as dust to the ground.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Ah make the most of what yet we may spend,
Before we too into dust descend
OMAR KHAYYAM Every time I hold your hand in the night and look at that star, I remember the fact that it is milli...
AKSHAY VASU It's like Dungeons and Dragons, but real."
Jace was looking at Simon as if he were some ...
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 Daniel, he said. I would have you follow me.

Master!....I will fight for you to the end!....
ELIZABETH GEORGE SPEARE In the midst of life we are in death. Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER Illusion"

A man wants to be free
flying in the emptiness of the universe
He thi...
ASPER BLURRY Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbe...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW And Poppy, remember that someday you will meet a frog who will turn into a handsome prince."
LISA KLEYPAS You're a Shadowhunter," he said. "You know how to deal with injuries." He slid his stele across the ...
CASSANDRA CLARE But unlike you," said Jace, "there is nothing of hell in us."
"You are mortal; you age; you die...
CASSANDRA CLARE The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, ...
WALTER SCOTT Sometimes I grow
so tired of speaking
my emotions to you.
I open my mouth
and du...
GABRIEL GADFLY It's my motto," said Isabelle, with a sultry smile. 'Nothing less than seven inches.'
Meliorn g...
CASSANDRA CLARE and angle of vision, dust, gravity, solitude,
and the part of the law which is the world's wai...
JORIE GRAHAM We all forget. Memories are short. We need to go back and dust some things off.
KEN AUSTIN Jace threw his hands up. "So it doesn't work."
"Not necessarily," Luke said. "There might simpl...
CASSANDRA CLARE Jace's eyes sparkled, but he said calmly, "Not at all. the Silent Brothers can help her retrieve her...
CASSANDRA CLARE I wouldn't go back to ashes or dust
Words gave me life and in them I will surrender
From w...
AKANKSHA SINGH A Litany for Survival

For those of us who live at the shoreline
standing upon...
AUDRE LORDE And I don’t see how Sebastian can be all that fond of Jace, either. He was horribly jealous of him...
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 What are all these?" Clary asked.
"Vials of holy water, blessed knives, steel and silver blades...
CASSANDRA CLARE It's Simon, he's missing."


Ahh." said Magnus delicately "Missing what exactly?"
CASSANDRA CLARE Isabelle says the Queen of the Seelie Court has requested an audience with us."
"Sure," said Ma...
CASSANDRA CLARE We watch a sunlight dust dance,
and we try to be that lively,
but nobody knows what musi...
RUMI Are you still on Minnesota time?” I asked.
“I am on whatever time makes this call last long...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER

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"...
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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.
CASSANDRA CLARE