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f947f63 Clary, Despite everything, I can't bear the thought of this ring being lost forever, any more then I can bear the thought of leaving you forever. And though I have no choice about the one, at least I can choose about the other. I'm leaving you our family ring because you have as much right to it as I do. I'm writing this watching the sun come up. You're asleep, dreams moving behind your restless eyelids. I wish I knew what you were thinking. I wish I could slip into your head and see the world the way you do. I wish I could see the way you do. But maybe I dont want to see that. Maybe it would make me feel even more than I already do that I'm perpetuating some kind of Great Lie on you, and I couldn't stand that. I belong to you. You could do anything you wanted with me and I would let you. You could ask anything of me and I'd break myself trying to make you happy. My heart tells me this is the best and greatest feeling I have ever had. But my mind knows the difference between wanting what you can't have and wanting what you shouldn't want. And I shouldn't want you. All night I've watched you sleeping, watched the moonlight come and go, casting its shadows across your face in black and white. I've never seen anything more beautiful. I think of the life we could have had if things were different, a life where this night is not a singular event, separate from everything else that's real, but every night. But things aren't different, and I can't look at you without feeling like I've tricked you into loving me. The truth no one is willing to say out loud is that no one has a shot against Valentine but me. I can get close to him like no one else can. I can pretend I want to join him and he'll believe me, up until that last moment where I end it all, one way or another. I have something of Sebastian's; I can track him to where my father's hiding, and that's what I'm going to do. So I lied to you last night. I said I just wanted one night with you. But I want every night with you. And that's why I have to slip out of your window now, like a coward. Because if I had to tell you this to your face, I couldn't make myself go. I don't blame you if you hate me, I wish you would. As long as I can still dream, I will dream of you. _Jace city-of-glass morgenstern wayland herondale city-of-fallen-angels clary-fray jace-lightwood mortal-instruments letter Cassandra Clare
06f0f12 "You're just worried they'll hire a male instructor and he'll be hotter than you." Jace's eyebrows went up. "Hotter than me?" "It could happen," Clary said, "You know, theoretically." "Theoretically the planet could suddenly crack in half, leaving me on one side and you on the other, forever and tragically parted, but I'm not worried about that either. Some things," Jace said, with his customary crooked smile, "are just too unlikely to dwell upon." clary-fray jace-lightwood Cassandra Clare
e37069d "You're the first Shadowhunter I've ever met." "That's too bad," said Jace, "since all the others you meet from now on will be a terrible letdown." jordan-kyle jace-lightwood Cassandra Clare
9193ebf "You know, some people think Shadowhunters are just myths. Like mummies and genies." Kyle grinned at Jace. "Can you grant wishes?" "That depends," he said. "Do you wish to be punched in the face?" jordan-kyle jace-lightwood Cassandra Clare
0d7d697 "So what was that all about?" "I think," Jace said, "that she asked if she could touch my mango." "She that?" Jace shrugged. "Yeah, then she gave me her number." jace-lightwood simon-lewis Cassandra Clare
55fc75c It's fascinating. You know all these words, and they're all English, but when you string them together into sentences, they just don't make any sense. humor jace-lightwood sarcasm Cassandra Clare
f629683 "I suppose you've always been amazing at this stuff."- Clary "I was born amazing." - Jace" clary-fray jace-lightwood Cassandra Clare
3dc4a48 "White for Shadowhunters is the color of funerals," Luke explained. " But for mundanes, Jace, it' s the color of weddings. Brides wear white to symbolize their purity." "I thought Jocelyn said her dress wasn't white," Simon said. "Well," said Jace, "I suppose that ship has sailed." Luke choked on his coffee." luke-garroway jace-lightwood symbolism Cassandra Clare
8fd1ca8 "Aren't they supposed to be hiring someone else to train me full-time ?" "Yes," he said, getting up and pulling her to her feet along with him," and I'm worried that if you get into the habit of making out with your instructors, you'll wind up making out with him, too." " Don't be sexist. They could find me a female instructor." "In that case you have my permission to make out with her, as long as I can watch." humor clary-fray jace-lightwood Cassandra Clare
26b5834 "Jace perched on the windowsill and looked down at him. "You really don't get this bodyguard thing, do you?" "I didn't even think you liked me all that much," said Simon. "Is this one of those keep-your-friends-close-and-your-enemies-closer things?" "I thought it was keep your friends close so you have someone to drive the car when you sneak over to your enemy's house a night and throw up in his mailbox." "I'm pretty sure that's not it" humor city-of-fallen-angels jace-lightwood simon-lewis Cassandra Clare
d8a66e2 "We shouldn't," protested Isabelle. "The Clave has a plan." "The Clave has the collective intelligence of a pineapple," said Jace. Alec blinked up at them. "Jace is right." Isabelle turned on her brother. "What do you know? You weren't even paying attention." "I was," Alec said, injured. "I said Jace was right." "Yeah, but there's like a 90% chance of me being right most of the time, so that's not proof you were listening," said Jace. "That's just a good guess." isabelle-lightwood jace-lightwood Cassandra Clare
a34cb18 "Hey," said Jace. who was sitting on an overturned speaker, looking at his cellphone, "do you want to see a photo of Alec and Magnus in Berlin?" "Not really," said Simon. "Magnus is wearing lederhosen." "And yet, still no." lederhosen jace-lightwood simon-lewis Cassandra Clare
c4aea52 "L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle. "It means that love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything." jace-lightwood Cassandra Clare
6deb386 Missing, one stunningly attractive teenage boy. Answers to 'Jace' or 'Hot Stuff jace-lightwood Cassandra Clare
dbb40bd "What's this?" "That's a mango." Simon stared at Jace. Sometimes it really is like Shadowhunters were from an alien planet. "I don't think I've seen one of those that wasn't already cut up," Jace mused. "I like mangoes." Simon grabbed the mango and tossed it into the cart. "Great. What else do you like?" Jace pondered for a moment. "Tomato soup," he said finally. "Tomato soup? You want tomato soup and a mango for dinner?" Jace shrugged. "I don't really care about food." jace-lightwood simon-lewis Cassandra Clare
81755cd "Medium clever," Simon acknowledged. "Like a cross between George Clooney in Ocean's Eleven and those MythBusters guys, but, you know, better-looking." "I'm always so glad I have no idea what you're vacantly chattering about," said Jace. "It fills me with a sense of peace and well-being." jace-lightwood simon-lewis mortal-instruments Cassandra Clare
b4aaa7e You look lousy,' he said. Jace blinked. 'Seems an odd time to start an insult contest, but if you insist, I could probably think up something good.' 'No I mean it. You don't look good.' 'This is from a guy ho has all the sex appeal of a penguin. Look, I realize you may be jealous that the good Lord didn't deal you the same chiseled hand he dealt me, but that's no reason to-' 'I am not trying to insult you.' Simon snapped. humor jace-lightwood simon-lewis insults Cassandra Clare
13e821c Alec keeps sending me annoying photos. Lots of captions like Wish you were here, except not really. city-of-fallen-angels jace-lightwood Cassandra Clare
7ab302e "He looks," Simon had once said to Isabelle, "like he's thinking about something deep and meaningful, but if you ask him what it is, he'll punch you in the face." jace-lightwood simon-lewis Cassandra Clare
61013d3 "So you're trying to make her happy despite the fact that the reason she's unhappy in the first place is you," said Simon, not very kindly. "That seems contradictory, doesn't it?" "Love is a contradiction," said Jace." jace-lightwood simon-lewis Cassandra Clare
f47f886 "They think they're better than everyone else." "No," said Jace. "I think I'm better than everyone else. An opinion that has been backed up with ample evidence." Kyle looked at Simon. "Does he always talk like this?" "Yes." jordan-kyle jace-lightwood simon-lewis Cassandra Clare
0a222b5 We can buy you one of those books they have for little kids 'Timmy Has Two Dads'. Except I don't think they have one called 'Timmy Has Two Dads and One of Them Was Evil'. That part you're just going to have to work through on your own. jace-lightwood simon-lewis mortal-instruments shadowhunters Cassandra Clare
a1442fe "I never cared," he said. "I wanted you anyway. I always wanted you." jace-lightwood Cassandra Clare
83394bd "Take off your shirt." Jace raised his eyebrows. "I'm not going to attack you," she said impatiently. "I can take the sight of your naked chest without swooning." "Are you sure?" he asked, obediently sliding the shirt off his shoulders. "Because viewing my naked chest has caused many women to seriously injure themselves stampeding to get to me." funny humor naked-chest shirt swooning city-of-lost-souls clary-fray the-mortal-instruments jace-lightwood jace-wayland Cassandra Clare
120658f "Alec isn't happy," said Magnus, as if she hadn't spoken. "Of course he isn't," Isabelle snapped. "Jace--" "Jace," said Magnus, and his hands made fists at his sides. Isabelle stared at him. She had always thought that he didn't mind Jace; liked him, even, once the question of Alec's affections had been settled. Out loud, she said: "I thought you were friends." "It's not that," said Magnus. "There are some people -- people the universe seems to have singled out for special destinies. Special favors and special torments. God knows we're all drawn toward what's beautiful and broken; I have been, but some people cannot be fixed. Or if they can be, it's only by love and sacrifice so great it destroys the giver." Isabelle shook her head slowly. "You've lost me. Jace is our brother, but for Alec -- he's Jace's parabatai too --" "I know about parabatai," said Magnus, his voice rising in pitch. "I've known parabatai so close they were almost the same person; do you know what happens, when one of them dies, to the one that's left--" "Stop it!" Isabelle clapped her hands over her ears, then lowered them slowly. "How dare you, Magnus Bane," she said. "How dare you make this worse than it is --" "Isabelle." Magnus' hands loosened; he looked a little wide-eyed, as if his outburst had startled even him. "I am sorry. I forget, sometimes . . . that with all your self-control and strength, you possess the same vulnerability that Alec does." "There is nothing weak about Alec," said Isabelle. "No," said Magnus. "To love as you choose, that takes strength. The thing is, I wanted you here for him. There are things I can't do for him, can't give him . . ." For a moment Magnus looked oddly vulnerable. "You have known Jace as long as he has. You can give him understanding I can't. And he loves you." "Of course he loves me. I'm his sister." "Blood isn't love," said Magnus, and his voice was bitter. "Just ask Clary." clary-morgenstern isabelle-lightwood jace-lightwood magnus-bane Cassandra Clare
1224bda Love is a contradiction. jace-lightwood mortal-instruments Cassandra Clare
85bddb9 If we're going to the Silent City, you might want to get dressed. I mean, I appreciate the bra-and-panties look, but I don't know if the Silent Brothers will. There are only a few of the left, and I don't want them to die of excitement. humor clary-fray jace-lightwood Cassandra Clare
1b5b366 He's my neophyte Downworlder to mock and boss around, not yours. jace-lightwood simon-lewis Cassandra Clare
53900f4 You and your name-dropping. 'I knew Michael'. 'I knew Sammael'. 'The angel Gabriel did my hair'. It's like with biblical figures. lilith jace-lightwood Cassandra Clare
9f971ac "Simon stepped between them. "I'm not going to let you fight with each other." "And what are you going to do about it if . . . Oh." Jace's gaze trailed up to Simon's forehead, and he grinned reluctantly. " So basically you're threatening to turn me into something you can sprinkle on popcorn if I don't do what you say?" city-of-fallen-angels jace-lightwood simon-lewis mortal-instruments Cassandra Clare
0cbdf87 "Isabelle and Jace had left the topic of dead Shadowhunters behind and had moved on to something Jace apparently found even more horrifying__Isabelle's date with Simon. "I can't believe he took you to an actual restaurant." Jace was on his feet now, putting away the floor mats and training gear while Isabelle leaned against the wall and played with her new gloves. "I assumed his idea of a date would be making you watch him play World of Warcraft with his nerd friends." "I," Clary pointed out, "am one of his nerd friends, thank you." clary-fray jace-lightwood Cassandra Clare
bc183be "Why are you always trying to get yourself killed?" "It's my job." "It's a of your job. At least for most Shadowhunters. For you it seems to be the purpose." jace-lightwood simon-lewis Cassandra Clare
1c21a73 Your trusting idiocy knows no bounds trust jace-lightwood Cassandra Clare
9e6741b Simon: So were you following me? Or is it just an amazing coincidence that you happened to be on the roof of a building I was walking by when I got attacked? Jace: I was following you. Simon: Is this the part where you tell me you're secretly in love with me? love jace-lightwood simon-lewis sarcasm Cassandra Clare
31c474d "I was hoping they'd put up flyers like they do for lost cats," he said. "Missing, one stunningly attractive teenage boy. Answers to 'Jace' or 'Hot Stuff." jace-lightwood Cassandra Clare
eefb442 "Do you remember what I told you that first time at Taki's? About faerie food?" "I remember you said you ran down Madison Avenue naked with antlers on your head", said Clary, blinking silver drops off her lashes." fairy city-of-lost-souls clary-fray the-mortal-instruments jace-lightwood Cassandra Clare
a0c7ba0 I was born amazing. jace-lightwood Cassandra Clare
448f2bd There are ways in which we're so alike. We're reckless. We don't think before we act. We'll do anything for people we love. And I never thought how scary that was for the people who loved me until I saw cols tmi city-of-lost-souls clary-fray the-mortal-instruments jace-lightwood jace-wayland jace-herondale Cassandra Clare
e2e3c20 She realized that this scarred, sarcastic boy, was gentle with the things he loved. clary-fray jace-lightwood Cassandra Clare
d39cd61 "The door buzzer sounded again. The two boys exchanged a single look before both bolting down the narrow hallway to the door. Jordan got there first. He grabbed for the coatrack that stood by the door, ripped the coats off it, and flung the door wide, the rack held aboe his head like a javelin. On the other side of the door was Jace. He blinked. "Is that a coatrack?" Jordan slammed the coatrack down on the ground and sighed. "If you'd been a vampire, this would have been a lot more useful." "Yes," said Jace. "Or, you know, just someone with a lot of coats." funny humor coatrack coats jordan-kyle city-of-fallen-angels the-mortal-instruments jace-lightwood jace-wayland simon-lewis Cassandra Clare
ca19741 "I can see why you like it here," he said,making a sweeping gesture that encompassed Kyle's collection of movie posters and science fiction books. "There's a thin layer of nerd all over everything." said Jace. "Thanks. I appreciate that." Simon gave Jace a hard look." humor jace-lightwood Cassandra Clare
5ec742d "Well, I guess I'll see you around. You're the first Shadowhunter I've ever met." "That's too bad,"said Jace, "since all the ones you meet from now on will be a terrible letdown." jace-lightwood Cassandra Clare
edf7392 "And you won't leave me?" "No." Alec said. "No, we won't ever leave you. You know that." "Never." Isabelle took his hand, the one Alec wasn't holding, and pressed it fiercely. "Lightwoods, all together." She whispered. Jace's hand was suddenly damp where she was holding it, and he realized she was crying, her tears splashing down crying for him, because she loved him; even after everything that had happened, she still loved him. They both did. He fell asleep like that, with Isabelle on one side of him and Alec on the other, as the sun came up with the dawn." lightwoods isabelle-lightwood parabatai jace-lightwood cassandra clare
3510a45 "And spare me the jokes about scoring." "Dammit, woman, you read my mind," he said. "Is there no filthy wordplay you can't forsee?" "It's my special magical power. I can read your mind when you're thinking dirty thoughts." "So, ninety-five percent of the time." humor jace-lightwood Cassandra Clare
5ab8860 "I suppose you've always been amazing at this stuff?" "I was born amazing" Jace stroked her cheek with the tips of his fingertips, lightly but enough to make her shiver." clary-fray jace-lightwood Cassandra Clare
fcb0919 "Perhaps there isn't anything Alec is afraid of." Magnus glanced at Alec and raised his eyebrows. "Boo," he said. Jace was grinning. "Come on, surely you've got a phobia or two. What scares you?" Alec thought for a moment. "Spiders," he said. Clary turned to Luke. "Have you got a spider anywhere?" Luke looked exasperated. "Why would I have a spider? Do I look like someone who would collect them?" "No offense," Jace said, "But you kind of do." "You know"---Alec's tone was sour---"Maybe this was a stupid experiment." "What about the dark?" Clary suggested. "We could lock you in the basement." "I'm a demon hunter," Alec said, with exaggerated patience. "Clearly, I am not afraid of the dark." fear humor jace-lightwood fearless Cassandra Clare
38fd4be "We are one now, little brother, you and I," Sebastian said. "We are one." cliffhanger jonathon-morgenstern meanest-ending-in-history sebastian-verlac jace-lightwood Cassandra Clare
c869cdd One minute you're munching on a faerie plum the next minute you're running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not,' he added hastily, 'that this has ever happened to me. jace-lightwood jace-wayland jace-herondale 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
f750393 "Jace is in love with the idea of dying," said Isabelle." -- tmi the-mortal-instruments jace-lightwood 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
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