cassandra-clare

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a2ad18e	Still I pictured having you for fifty, sixty more years. I thought I might be ready then to let you go. But it's you, and I realize now that I won't be anymore ready to lose you then than I am right now. Which is not at all.	city-of-fallen-angels magnus-bane mortal-instruments cassandra-clare	Cassandra Clare
063e142	No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily.	mortality death clockwork-princess i-can-t-even omg-my-feels the-infernal-devices cassandra-clare dying	Cassandra Clare
4d97dcd	You left me. You made a pet out of me, and then you left me. If love were food, I would have starved on the bones you gave me.	city-of-fallen-angels magnus-bane mortal-instruments cassandra-clare	Cassandra Clare
b3fc8a2	"Izzy. My sister. She told me you liked me. me, liked me." " you, liked you?" Magnus buried his grin in the cat's fur. "Sorry. Are we twelve now? I don't recall saying anything to Isabelle . . ."	kissed magnus-bane mortal-instruments cassandra-clare	Cassandra Clare
9cb3acf	"Isabelle snorted, "All the boys gay. In this truck, anyway. Well, not you, Simon." "You noticed," said Simon. "I think of myself as a freewheeling bisexual," added Magnus. "Please never say those words in front of my parents," said Alec."	funny humor bisexual city-of-lost-souls isabelle-lightwood magnus-bane simon-lewis mortal-instruments cassandra-clare gay	Cassandra Clare
c947be8	He knew Alec enough by now to know the conflicting impulses that warred in him. He was conscientious, the kind of person who believed that the others around him were so much more important than he was, who already believed he was letting everybody down. And he was honest, the kind of person that was naturally open about all he felt and wanted. Alec's virtues had made a trap for him; these two good qualities had collided painfully. He felt he could not be honest without disappointing everyone he loved. It was a hideous conundrum for him. It was as if the world had been designed to make him unhappy.	family life love alexander-lightwood shadowhunter malec magnus-bane infernal-devices mortal-instruments cassandra-clare	Cassandra Clare
b033fbe	"She knew how breakups went from hearing other girls complain about them. First the pulling away, the gradual refusal to return notes or phone calls. The vague messages saying nothing was wrong, that the other person just needed a little space. Then the speech about how "It's not you, it's me." Then the crying part. She'd never thought any of that would apply to her and Jace. What they had wasn't ordinary, or subject to the ordinary rules of relationships and breakups. They belonged to each other totally, and always will, and that was that. But maybe everyone felt that way? Until the moment they realized they were just like everyone else, and everyone they'd thought was real shattered apart."	relationships love clary-and-jace clary-fray jace cassandra-clare	Cassandra Clare
012cb45	He's not warlock.	mortal-instruments cassandra-clare	Cassandra Clare
11adbaf	"Though Alec had never seen the occupants of the first floor loft, they seemed to be engaged in a tempestuous romance. Once there had been a bunch of someone's belongings strewn all over the landing with a note attached to a jacket lapel addressed to "A lying liar who lies." Right now there was a bouquet of flowers taped to the door with a card tucked among the blooms that read I'M SORRY. That was the thing about New York: you always knew more about your neighbors' business than you wanted to."	funny humor neighbors romance-relationship city-of-lost-souls the-mortal-instruments apartment cassandra-clare new-york	Cassandra Clare
4265129	It was odd, (Tessa thought), what brought out tenderness in people.	quote truth cassandra-clare tenderness	Cassandra Clare
86fdc0c	He remembered Tessa weeping in his arms in Paris, and thinking that he had never known the loss she felt, because he had never loved like she had, and that he was afraid that someday he would, and like Tessa he would lose his mortal love. And that it was better to be the one who died than the one who lived on. He had dismissed that, later, as a morbid fantasy, and had not remembered it again until Alec.	loss love page-502 part-2 city-of-heavenly-fire tessa-gray magnus-bane immortal cassandra-clare mortal	Cassandra Clare
ed9a745	Eternity is a long time to spend alone, without others of your kind.	loneliness friends city-of-fallen-angels cassandra-clare vampire	Cassandra Clare
31b34ca	"It wasn't sexy," he said. "It was a little sexy," Simon said. He felt much better, having fed, and couldn't help but poke at Alec a bit. "It wasn't," said Alec. "I had some feelings," said Simon." "Do feel free to agonize about it on your own time."	tmi city-of-heavenly-fire simon-lewis cassandra-clare	Cassandra Clare
b4f1261	The light that burned twice as bright burned half as long.	clockwork-angel clockwork-prince cassandra-clare	Cassandra Clare
36f9220	"And what about us? Do you want a vampire boyfriend?" He laughed bitterly. "Because I forsee many romantic picnics in our future. You, drinking a virgin pina colada. Me, drinking the blood of a virgin."	fun humor love city-of-ashes clary-fray the-mortal-instruments simon-lewis cassandra-clare vampire	Cassandra Clare
c3f3051	"Don't talk." Alec gestured at him with an expression of vague disgust. "Every time I look at you, I keep remembering coming in here and seeing you draped all over my sister." Jace sat up. "I didn't hear about this." "Oh, come on -" said Simon. "Simon, you're blushing," observed Jace. "And you're a vampire and almost never blush, so this better be really juicy. And weird. Were bicycles involved in some kinky way? Vaccum cleaners? Umbrellas?" "Big umbrellas, or the little kind you get with drinks?" Alec asked. "Does it matter -"	tmi city-of-heavenly-fire isabelle-lightwood jace-lightwood simon-lewis cassandra-clare	Cassandra Clare
fac37b0	I played it for my bride, and one day you will play for yours.	clockwork-angel clockwork-prince jem-carstairs cassandra-clare	Cassandra Clare
0b6ec52	He hadn't stopped wanting love. He had simply, somehow, stopped looking.	love the-bane-chronicles magnus-bane cassandra-clare	Cassandra Clare
8e1b8dd	"Will grinned. "Some of these books are dangerous," he said. "It's wise to be careful.""One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.""I'm not sure a book has ever changed me," said Will. "Well, there is one volume that promises to teach one how to turn oneself into an entire flock of sheep--""Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry," said Tessa" --	poetry books fandom fandom-talk literarature the-clockwork-angel tid william-herondale the-infernal-devices clockwork-angel tessa-gray will-herondale cassandra-clare bookworms	Cassandra Clare
5bbb9af	You're the only person I've ever loved like this, and I know you're the only person I ever will. And I'm not myself without you, Emma. Once you dissolve dye in water, you can't take it back out. It's like that. I can't take you out of me. It means cutting out my heart, and I don't like myself without my heart, I know that now.	queen-of-air-and-darkness the-dark-artifices cassandra-clare jemma julian-blackthorn	Cassandra Clare
fc55bcc	"This is the deepest wish of my heart?" "Sure," Magnus said. "Your father, proud of you. You, the hero of the hour. Me, loving you. Everyone approving of you." Alec looked over at Jace. "Okay, what about the Jace thing?" Magnus shrugged. "I don't know. Thet part's just weird."	city-of-heavenly-fire magnus-bane cassandra-clare	Cassandra Clare
5d97e5a	"There is so much in this store I can picture Magnus wanting," Simon said, picking up a glass bottle of body glitter suspended in some kind of oil. "Is it against some kind of rule to buy presents for someone who broke up with your friend?" "I guess it depends. Is Magnus your closer friend, or Alec?" "Alec remembers my name," said Simon, and he set the bottle back down."	tmi clary-fray city-of-heavenly-fire magnus-bane simon-lewis cassandra-clare	Cassandra Clare
2c8bd5a	"I just wanted to say that you don't always have to be all right. I asked you to be my parabatai because I needed you, but you're allowed to need me, too. This" - he indicated his own parabatai rune - "means you are the better, other half of me, and I care about you more than I care about myself. Remember that. I'm sorry I didn't realize how much you were hurting. I didn't see it then, but I see it now."	tmi city-of-heavenly-fire jace-lightwood cassandra-clare	Cassandra Clare
b48732b	Certainly there were places of greater natural beauty--but Paris but UNNATURAL beauty, which was arguably better.' - The Runaway Queen (The Bane Chronicles, 2) by Cassandra Clare and Maureen Johnson	maureen-johnson natural-beauty the-runaway-queen unnatural-beauty the-bane-chronicles magnus-bane cassandra-clare paris	Cassandra Clare
ba9cc26	He was drowning in want, his control shattering like glass blown out of a window by a blast concussion. He could almost imagine he heard the shards raining to the ground beneath them. The broken pieces of his willpower. Of his life.	cassandra-clare deleted-scene emma-carstairs jemma julian-blackthorn lord-of-shadows	Cassandra Clare

a2ad18e

Still I pictured having you for fifty, sixty more years. I thought I might be ready then to let you go. But it's you, and I realize now that I won't be anymore ready to lose you then than I am right now. Which is not at all.

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Cassandra Clare

063e142

No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily.

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4d97dcd

You left me. You made a pet out of me, and then you left me. If love were food, I would have starved on the bones you gave me.

city-of-fallen-angels magnus-bane mortal-instruments cassandra-clare

Cassandra Clare

b3fc8a2

"Izzy. My sister. She told me you liked me. me, liked me." " you, liked you?" Magnus buried his grin in the cat's fur. "Sorry. Are we twelve now? I don't recall saying anything to Isabelle . . ."

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Cassandra Clare

9cb3acf

"Isabelle snorted, "All the boys gay. In this truck, anyway. Well, not you, Simon." "You noticed," said Simon. "I think of myself as a freewheeling bisexual," added Magnus. "Please never say those words in front of my parents," said Alec."

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c947be8

He knew Alec enough by now to know the conflicting impulses that warred in him. He was conscientious, the kind of person who believed that the others around him were so much more important than he was, who already believed he was letting everybody down. And he was honest, the kind of person that was naturally open about all he felt and wanted. Alec's virtues had made a trap for him; these two good qualities had collided painfully. He felt he could not be honest without disappointing everyone he loved. It was a hideous conundrum for him. It was as if the world had been designed to make him unhappy.

family life love alexander-lightwood shadowhunter malec magnus-bane infernal-devices mortal-instruments cassandra-clare

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b033fbe

"She knew how breakups went from hearing other girls complain about them. First the pulling away, the gradual refusal to return notes or phone calls. The vague messages saying nothing was wrong, that the other person just needed a little space. Then the speech about how "It's not you, it's me." Then the crying part. She'd never thought any of that would apply to her and Jace. What they had wasn't ordinary, or subject to the ordinary rules of relationships and breakups. They belonged to each other totally, and always will, and that was that. But maybe everyone felt that way? Until the moment they realized they were just like everyone else, and everyone they'd thought was real shattered apart."

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Cassandra Clare

012cb45

He's not warlock.

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Cassandra Clare

11adbaf

"Though Alec had never seen the occupants of the first floor loft, they seemed to be engaged in a tempestuous romance. Once there had been a bunch of someone's belongings strewn all over the landing with a note attached to a jacket lapel addressed to "A lying liar who lies." Right now there was a bouquet of flowers taped to the door with a card tucked among the blooms that read I'M SORRY. That was the thing about New York: you always knew more about your neighbors' business than you wanted to."

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4265129

It was odd, (Tessa thought), what brought out tenderness in people.

quote truth cassandra-clare tenderness

Cassandra Clare

86fdc0c

He remembered Tessa weeping in his arms in Paris, and thinking that he had never known the loss she felt, because he had never loved like she had, and that he was afraid that someday he would, and like Tessa he would lose his mortal love. And that it was better to be the one who died than the one who lived on. He had dismissed that, later, as a morbid fantasy, and had not remembered it again until Alec.

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Cassandra Clare

ed9a745

Eternity is a long time to spend alone, without others of your kind.

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Cassandra Clare

31b34ca

"It wasn't sexy," he said. "It was a little sexy," Simon said. He felt much better, having fed, and couldn't help but poke at Alec a bit. "It wasn't," said Alec. "I had some feelings," said Simon." "Do feel free to agonize about it on your own time."

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Cassandra Clare

b4f1261

The light that burned twice as bright burned half as long.

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Cassandra Clare

36f9220

"And what about us? Do you want a vampire boyfriend?" He laughed bitterly. "Because I forsee many romantic picnics in our future. You, drinking a virgin pina colada. Me, drinking the blood of a virgin."

fun humor love city-of-ashes clary-fray the-mortal-instruments simon-lewis cassandra-clare vampire

Cassandra Clare

c3f3051

"Don't talk." Alec gestured at him with an expression of vague disgust. "Every time I look at you, I keep remembering coming in here and seeing you draped all over my sister." Jace sat up. "I didn't hear about this." "Oh, come on -" said Simon. "Simon, you're blushing," observed Jace. "And you're a vampire and almost never blush, so this better be really juicy. And weird. Were bicycles involved in some kinky way? Vaccum cleaners? Umbrellas?" "Big umbrellas, or the little kind you get with drinks?" Alec asked. "Does it matter -"

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fac37b0

I played it for my bride, and one day you will play for yours.

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0b6ec52

He hadn't stopped wanting love. He had simply, somehow, stopped looking.

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Cassandra Clare

8e1b8dd

"Will grinned. "Some of these books are dangerous," he said. "It's wise to be careful.""One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.""I'm not sure a book has ever changed me," said Will. "Well, there is one volume that promises to teach one how to turn oneself into an entire flock of sheep--""Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry," said Tessa" --

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Cassandra Clare

5bbb9af

You're the only person I've ever loved like this, and I know you're the only person I ever will. And I'm not myself without you, Emma. Once you dissolve dye in water, you can't take it back out. It's like that. I can't take you out of me. It means cutting out my heart, and I don't like myself without my heart, I know that now.

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fc55bcc

"This is the deepest wish of my heart?" "Sure," Magnus said. "Your father, proud of you. You, the hero of the hour. Me, loving you. Everyone approving of you." Alec looked over at Jace. "Okay, what about the Jace thing?" Magnus shrugged. "I don't know. Thet part's just weird."

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Cassandra Clare

5d97e5a

"There is so much in this store I can picture Magnus wanting," Simon said, picking up a glass bottle of body glitter suspended in some kind of oil. "Is it against some kind of rule to buy presents for someone who broke up with your friend?" "I guess it depends. Is Magnus your closer friend, or Alec?" "Alec remembers my name," said Simon, and he set the bottle back down."

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Cassandra Clare

2c8bd5a

"I just wanted to say that you don't always have to be all right. I asked you to be my parabatai because I needed you, but you're allowed to need me, too. This" - he indicated his own parabatai rune - "means you are the better, other half of me, and I care about you more than I care about myself. Remember that. I'm sorry I didn't realize how much you were hurting. I didn't see it then, but I see it now."

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Cassandra Clare

b48732b

Certainly there were places of greater natural beauty--but Paris but UNNATURAL beauty, which was arguably better.' - The Runaway Queen (The Bane Chronicles, 2) by Cassandra Clare and Maureen Johnson

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ba9cc26

He was drowning in want, his control shattering like glass blown out of a window by a blast concussion. He could almost imagine he heard the shards raining to the ground beneath them. The broken pieces of his willpower. Of his life.

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Cassandra Clare