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bf8ebb5
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No one is ever the villain of their own story.
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malcom-fade
emma-carstairs
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Cassandra Clare |
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c6460fe
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That seems like stealing, doesn't it?" Simon pulled a cup toward him. He drew the lid back. "Ooh. Mochaccino." He looked at Magnus. "Did you pay for these?" "Sure," said Magnus, while Jace and Alec snickered. "I make dollar bills magically appear in their cash register." "Really?" "No." Magnus popped the lid off his own coffee. "But you can pretend I did if it makes you feel better. So, first order of business is what?"
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simon-lewis
sarcasm
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Cassandra Clare |
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855d346
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Herondales." Zachariah's voice was a breath, half laughter, half pain. "I had almost forgotten. No other family does so much for love, or feels so much guilt for it. Don't carry the weight of the world on you, Jace. It's too heavy for even a Herondale to bear."
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love
pg-234
jem-carstairs
jace-herondale
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Cassandra Clare |
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826fe53
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Stop it." Isabelle tapped a booted foot in the shallow water at the lake's edge. "Both of you. In fact, all three of you. If we don't stick together in the Seelie Court, we're dead." "But I haven't-," Clary started. "Maybe you haven't, but the way you let those two act..." Isabelle indicated the boys with a disdainful wave of her hand. "I can't tell them what to do!" "Why not?" the other girl demanded. "Honestly, Clary, if you don't start u..
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faerie-queen
feminine
isabelle-lightwood
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Cassandra Clare |
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57f294a
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How rude. Many who have gazed upon me have compared the experience to gazing at the radiance of the sun." Jem still had his eyes closed. "If they mean it gives you a headache, they aren't wrong."
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clockwork-angel
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Cassandra Clare |
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924b0a9
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The surface of the pond was green with fallen leaves. "How could you have been happy there? I know what you thought, but Valentine was a terrible father. He killed your pets, lied to you, and I know he hit you- don't even try to pretend he didn't." A flicker of a smile ghosted across Jace's face. "Only on alternate Thursdays."
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bc4207e
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A parabatai. Like he was. And Jace knew, too, what that faded rune meant: a parabatai whose other half was dead. He felt his sympathy leap toward Brother Zachariah, as he imagined himself without Alec, with only that faded rune to remind him where once he had been bonded to someone who knew all the best and worst parts of his soul.
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jace
jem
will
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Cassandra Clare |
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74be42d
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Do you think Charlotte will let me handle the investigation?" "Do think you can be trusted in Downworld? The gaming hells, the dens of magical vice, the women of loose morals..." Will smiled the way Lucifer might have smiled, moments before he fell from heaven. "Would tomorrow be to early to start looking, do you think? Jem sighed. 'Do what you like, William. You always do."
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jem-carstairs
will-herondale
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Cassandra Clare |
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7061e7c
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For this I would be damned forever. For this I would have given up everything.
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Cassandra Clare |
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b5e2e86
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I know about parabatai," said Magnus, an angry, dark undercurrent to his voice. "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 --?"
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parabatai
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Cassandra Clare |
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02531a5
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By the Angel, Bridget's depressing," said Henry, setting down his newspaper directly on his plate and causing the edge to soak through with egg yolk. Charlotte opened her mouth as if to object, and closed it again. "It's all heartbreak, death and unrequited love." "Well, that is what most songs are about," said Will. "Requited love is nice, but it doesn't make much of a ballad." --
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will-herondale
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Cassandra Clare |
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bc183be
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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."
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jace-lightwood
simon-lewis
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Cassandra Clare |
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1a2fbcd
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Oh, I can never get enough. Which, incidentally, is what your sister said when--
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innuendo
will-herondale
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Cassandra Clare |
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7ad3ff2
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One does no question miracles, or complain that they are no constructed perfectly to one's liking.
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life
tessa-gray
miracles
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Cassandra Clare |
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4ab8099
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Because that was what you did with family when you'd been worried about them, you grabbed them and held on to them and told them how much they'd pissed you off, and it was okay, because no matter how angry you got, they still belonged to you.
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Cassandra Clare |
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0d49bd4
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Clary wasn't sure what she'd expected -exclamations of delight, perhaps a smattering of applause. Instead there was silence, broken only when Jace said, "Somehow, I thought it would be bigger." Clary looked at the Cup in her hand. It was the size, perhaps, of an ordinary wineglass, only much heavier. Power thrummed through it, like blood through living veins. "It's a perfectly nice size," she said indignantly. "Oh, it's big enough," he said..
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isabelle
jace
mortal-instruments
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Cassandra Clare |
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b5e0606
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Hugo attacked me." Clary tried not to wince as the astringent liquid stung her wounds. Hugo?" Luke blinked. Hodge's bird. I think it was his bird, anyway. Maybe it was Valentine's." Hugin," Luke said softly. "Hugin and Munin were Valentine's pet birds. Their names mean 'Thought' and 'Memory.'" Well they should mean 'Attack' and 'Kill,'" said Clary. "Hugo almost tore my eyes out."
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Cassandra Clare |
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e11a971
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That's not the spirit of the law, Emma. Remember? "I thought it was 'the Law is annoying, but it is also flexible."
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emma-carstairs
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Cassandra Clare |
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c71fea3
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He gazed amusedly down the table at Tessa. "You're the shape-changer, aren't you?" he said. "Magnus Bane told me about you. No mark on you at all, they say." Tessa swallowed and looked him straight in the eye. They were discordantly human eyes, ordinary in his extraordinary face. "No. No mark." He grinned around his fork. "I do suppose they've looked everywhere?" "I'm sure Will's tried," said Jessamine in a bored tone."
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tessa-gray
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Cassandra Clare |
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98d7734
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Your boyfriend's crazy," he said to Clary. "Yeah, but he's hot," said Clary. "So there's that."
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Cassandra Clare |
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913f488
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You don't believe me?" Jace asked. "Fine. Go ahead. Kiss me right now." Alec stared at him in horror. "Exactly. Despite my staggering good lucks, you actually don't like me that way."
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jace-wayland
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Cassandra Clare |
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cdb2c40
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Look at him. The face of a bad angel and eyes like the night sky in Hell. He's very pretty, and vampires like that. I can't say I mind either.
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Cassandra Clare |
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f0b59c5
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God knows we're all drawn to what's beautiful and broken.
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Cassandra Clare |
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e274faf
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Every meeting led to a parting, and so it would, as long as life was mortal. In every meeting there was some of the sorrow of parting, but in everything parting there was some of the joy of meeting as well.
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to-live-by
goodbye
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Cassandra Clare |
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e2b5410
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There is truth in stories," said Arthur. "There is truth in one of your paintings, boy or in a sunset or a couplet from Homer. Fiction is truth, even if it is not a fact. If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your brain will live, but your heart will die."
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Cassandra Clare |
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cdba00f
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Magnus took a deep breath and spoke gently. "Will. You asked me for my wisdom, as someone who has lived many lifetimes and buried many loves. I can tell you that the end of a life is the sum of the love that was lived in it, that whatever you think you have sworn, being here at the end of Jem's life is not what is important. It was being here for every other moment. Since you met him, you have never left him and never not loved him. is wh..
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Cassandra Clare |
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a5481ae
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At last, the wheel comes full circle
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goodbye
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Cassandra Clare |
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f4e4d74
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Magnus stood up and went to the window. He pushed the curtain back, letting in just enough light to silhouette his hawklike profile. "Blood," he said, half to himself. "I had a dream two nights ago. I saw a city all of blood, with towers made of bone, and blood ran in the streets like water." Simon slewed his eyes over to Jace. "Is standing by the window muttering about blood something he does all the time?" "No," said Jace, "sometimes he s..
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magnus-bane
simon-lewis
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Cassandra Clare |
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39390a1
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I promise to charm the dickens out of him,' said Will, sitting up and readjusting his crushed hat. 'I shall charm him with such force that when I am done, he will be left lying limply on the ground, trying to remember his own name.' 'The man's eighty-nine', muttered Jem. 'He may well have the problem anyway.
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clockwork-prince
infernal-devices
jem-carstairs
will-herondale
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Cassandra Clare |
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9cb3acf
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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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funny
humor
bisexual
city-of-lost-souls
isabelle-lightwood
magnus-bane
simon-lewis
mortal-instruments
cassandra-clare
gay
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Cassandra Clare |
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ff8b285
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Hello? This is Clary Fairchild." "Clary? It's me, Emma." "Oh, Emma, hi! I haven't heard from you in ages. My mom says thanks for the wedding flowers, by the way. She wanted to send a note but Luke whisked her away on a honeymoon to Tahiti." "Tahiti sounds nice." "It probably is -- Jace, what are you doing with that thing? There is no way it'll fit." "Is this a bad time?" "What? No! Jace is trying to drag a trebuchet into the training room. ..
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humour
clary-fairchild
jace-herondale
shadowhunters
the-dark-artifices
emma-carstairs
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Cassandra Clare |
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c069efb
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Do you even really know how vampires are made?' 'Well, when a mommy vampire and a daddy vampire love each other very much...
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isabelle-lightwood
simon-lewis
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Cassandra Clare |
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cd4bcb9
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Well I'm not kissing the mundane," said Jace. "I'd rather stay down here and rot." "Forever?" said Simon. "Forever is an awfully long time." Jace raised his eyebrows, "I knew it," he said, "you want to kiss me, don't you?" Simon threw his hands up in exasperation. "Of course not but if-" "I guess it's true what they say," observed Jace. "There are no straight men in the trenches." "That's jackass," said Simon furiously. "There are no in..
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jace-wayland
simon-lewis
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Cassandra Clare |
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13bacba
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Isabelle says the Queen of the Seelie Court has requested an audience with us." "Sure," said Magnus. "And Madonna wants me as a backup dancer on her next world tour." Alec looked puzzled. "Who's Madonna?" "Who's the Queen of the Seelie Court?" said Clary. "She is the Queen of Faerie," said Magnus. "Well, the local one, anyway." Jace put his head in his hands. "Tell Isabelle no." "But she thinks it's a good idea," Alec protested. "Then tell ..
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jace
magnus-bane
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Cassandra Clare |
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0266206
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I love you so much, so incredibly much," he went on, "and I forget when you're close to me, I forget who you are. I forget that you're Jem's. I'd have to be the worst sort of person to think what I'm thinking right now. But I am thinking it."
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but-this-book-ruined-them
cp2
i-used-to-have-a-heart
tid
james-carstairs
clockwork-princess
william-herondale
the-infernal-devices
parabatai
tessa-gray
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Cassandra Clare |
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0b4d155
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The wishes of our hearts are weapons that can be used against us.
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Cassandra Clare |
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75994b0
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I must say, I rather like the way you manage Will.
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Cassandra Clare |
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748f9d0
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Alec?" Magnus was staring at him. He had dispatched the remaining Iblis demons, and the square was empty but for the two of them. "Did you just- did you just save my life?" Alec knew he ought to say something like, Of course, because I'm a Shadowhunter and that's what we do, or That's my job. Jace would have said something like that. Jace always knew the right thing to say. But the words that actually came out of Alec's mouth where quite d..
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humor
magnus-bane
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Cassandra Clare |
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6acd543
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She supposed they were imperfections, those marks, but they didn't feel that way to her; they were a history, cut into his body: the map of a life of endless war.
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war
history
life
clary-fray
jace-wayland
mortal-instruments
marks
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Cassandra Clare |
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54141ec
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Charlotte, who had sagged back in her chair, her eyes half-closed, said, "Will, I have already been up all night copying down the relevant parts. Much of it was--" "Gibberish?" Jem suggested. "Pornographic?" said Will at the same time. "Could be both," said Will. "Haven't you ever heard of pornographic gibberish before?"
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Cassandra Clare |
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ca9260b
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You had every right to be. He raised his eyes to look at her and she was suddenly and strangely reminded of being four years old at the beach, crying when the wind came up and blew away the castle she had made. Her mother had told her she could make another one if she liked, but it hadn't stopped her crying because what she had thought was permanent was not permanent after all, but only made out of sand that vanished at the touch of wind an..
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Cassandra Clare |
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6734d8d
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Clary closed her eyes. Remembering the way Jace had looked at her the night she'd freed Ithuriel, she couldn't help but imagine the way he'd look at her now if he saw her trying to lie down to die on the sand beside him. He wouldn't be touched, wouldn't think it was a beautiful gesture. He'd be angry at her for giving up. He'd be so--disappointed.
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Cassandra Clare |
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1c21a73
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Your trusting idiocy knows no bounds
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trust
jace-lightwood
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Cassandra Clare |
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0e58752
|
Bitten? You mean you're a-" "A werewolf," said the girl. "Like everyone else here. Except you, and the asshole. And the asshole's sister."
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humor
maia
clary-fray
jace-wayland
simon-lewis
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Cassandra Clare |