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Cassandra Clare
“One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
“I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons an...
“And I'm suppose to sit by while you date boys and fall in love with someone else, get married...?" His voice tightened....
“You could have had anything else in the world, and you asked for me."She smiled up at him. Filthy as he was, covered in...
“Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.”
“Mom. I have something to tell you. I’m undead. Now, I know you may have some preconceived notions about the undead. I k...
“What are all these?" Clary asked."Vials of holy water, blessed knives, steel and silver blades," Jace said, piling the ...
“They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite”
“It's not gray," Clary felt compelled to point out. "It's green.""If there was such a thing as terminal literalism, you'...
“My rapier wit hides my inner pain.”
“We need to talk. All of us About what we're going to do now.""I was going to watch Project Runway.”
“Men may be stronger, but it is women who endure.”
“I have a high pain threshold. In fact, it's more of a large and tastfully decorated foyer than a threshold. But I do ge...
“We live and breathe words.”
“No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily.”
“There is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is...
“And now I’m looking at you,” he said, “and you’re asking me if I still want you, as if I could stop loving you. As if I...
“Do you remember back at the hotel when you promised that if we lived, you’d get dressed up in a nurse’s outfit and give...
“That does it," said Jace. "I'm going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year.""Why?" Isabelle said."So you can ...
“Investigation?" Isabelle laughed. "Now we're detectives? Maybe we should all have code names.""Good idea," said Jace. "...
“I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remem...
“So when the moon's only partly full, you only feel a little wolfy?""You could say that.""Well, you can go ahead and han...
“I thought I'd lie on the floor and writhe in pain for a while," he grunted, "It relaxes me.""It does? Oh - you're being...
“You're an idiot.""I've never claimed to be otherwise.”
“Trains are great dirty smoky things," said Will. "You won't like it."Tessa was unmoved. "I won't know if I like it unti...
“Sebastian just smiled. “I could hear your heart beating,” he said softly. “When you were watching me with Valentine. Di...
“We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as th...
“And next time you're planning to injure yourself to get me attention, just remember that a little sweet talk works wond...
“I've got the Mark of Cain," said Simon. "That means nothing can kill me, right?""You can kill yourself," Magnus said, s...
“That sounds terrific, thought Cary, just you, your comatose wife your shell-shocked son, and your daughter who hates yo...
“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
“It means 'Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of our Enemies Since 1234'.”
“Malachi scowled. "I don't remember the Clave inviting you into the Glass City, Magnus Bane.""They didn't," Magnus said....
“You guessed? You must have been pretty sure, considering you could have killed me.""I was ninety percent sure.""I see,"...
“What's this?" he demanded, looking from Clary to his companions, as if they might know what she was doing there."It's a...
“The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me.”
“Your friend's poetry is terrible," he said.Clary blinked, caught momentarily off guard. "What?""I said his poetry was t...
“You could have fooled me. Everytime I called you, Luke said you were sick. I figured you were avoiding me. Again.""I wa...
“A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance covers?”
“Alec looked at her and shook his head. "How do you manage never to get mud on your clothes?"Isabelle shrugged philosoph...
“There's no need to clarify my finger snap," said Magnus. "The implication was clear in the snap itself.”
“All knowledge hurts.”
“aren't you, uh... reproducing?"sure, we love reproducing it's one of our favorite things.”
“There are memories that time does not erase... Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.”
“Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change -Clary Fray”
“Jesus!" Luke exclaimed."Actually, it's just me," said Simon. "Although I've been told the resemblance is startling.”
“Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”
“Well, I’m not kissing the mundane," said Jace. "I’d rather stay down here and rot.""Forever?" said Simon. "Forever’s an...
“People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that ...
“Just because you call an electric eel a rubber duck doesn't make it a rubber duck, does it? And God help the poor basta...
“You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.”
“I'll just have them change the entry in the demonology textbook from 'almost extinct' to 'not extinct enough for Alec. ...
“I don't want tea," said Clary, with muffled force. "I want to find my mother. And then I want to find out who took her ...
“Jace shook his blond head in exasperation."You had to make a crazy jail friend, didn't you? You couldn't just count cei...
“Magnus, standing by the door, snapped his fingers impatiently. "Move it along, teenagers. The only person who gets to c...
“As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?”
“It’s fascinating. You know all these words, and they’re all English, but when you string them together into sentences, ...
“Something inside Clary cracked and broke, and words came pouring out. 'What do you want me to tell you? The truth? The ...
“I believe in good and evil," said Jem. "And I believe the soul is eternal. But I don't believe in the fiery pit, the pi...
“Temper us in fire, and we grow stronger. When we suffer, we survive.”
