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He broke up with me." "Because you weren't in love with him. That's an iffy proposition, and I think he's handling with grace. A lot of teenage boys would sulk, or lurk around under your window with a boom box." "No one has a boom box anymore. That was the eighties."
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luke
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Cassandra Clare |
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4d6b1e6
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Well, I'm certainly not Ragnor Fell the exotic dancer.
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sebastian-verlac
magnus-bane
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Cassandra Clare |
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111fd70
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The Frays had never been a religiously observant family, but Clary loved Fifth Avenue at Christmas time. The air smelled like sweet roasted chestnuts, and the window displays sparkled with silver and blue, green and red. This year there were fat round crystal snowflakes attached to each lamppost, sending back the winter sunlight in shafts of gold. Not to mention the huge tree at Rockefeller Center. It threw its shadow across them as she and..
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Clary shut her eyes. You didn't say no to an angel, no matter what it had in mind. Her heart pounding, she sat floating in the darkness behind her eyelids, resolutely trying not to think of Jace. But his face appear against the blank screen of her closed eyelids anyway - not smiling at her but looking sidelong, and she could see the scar at his temple, the uneven curl at the corner of his mouth, and the silver line on his throat where Simon..
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love
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Cassandra Clare |
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2cd3afa
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She'd rather hoped for something simple, like a lined piece of notebook paper with MY EVIL PLAN written across the top, but no luck.
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Cassandra Clare |
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Once there was a boy," said Jace. Clary interrupted immediately. "A Shadowhunter boy?" "Of course." For a moment a bleak amusement colored his voice. Then it was gone. "When the boy was six years old, his father gave him a falcon to train. Falcons are raptors - killing birds, his father told him, the Shadowhunters of the sky. "The falcon didn't like the boy, and the boy didn't like it, either. Its sharp beak made him nervous, and its bright..
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science
love
inspirational
destroyed
falcon
jace
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Cassandra Clare |
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796797f
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Will's Father's gaze went immediately to Gabriel, and then to Cecily, his eyes narrowing. "And who is this gentlemen?" Will's grin widened. "Oh him," he said. "This is Cecliy's friend, Mr. Gabriel Lightworm." Gabriel, half in the act of stretching his hand to greet Mr. Herondale, froze in horror. "Lightwood," he sputtered. "Gabriel Lightwood."
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a347b95
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Will," she whispered against his mouth. She wanted him closer to her so badly, it was like an ache, a painful hot ache that spread from her stomach to speed her heart and knot her hands in his hair and set her skin burning. "Will, you need not be so careful. I will not break."
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will-herondale
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Cassandra Clare |
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693347b
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You don't get it, Clary. You don't understand what it's like to live always at war, to grow up with battle and sacrifice. I guess it's not your fault. It's just how you were brought up-
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war
sacrifice
life
city-of-glass
isabelle-lightwood
mortal-instruments
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092b65b
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Beati bellicosi. Blessed are the warriors." "Good organization," said Magnus. "I knew the man who founded it, back in the 1800s. Woolsey Scott. Respectable old werewolf family." Alec made an ugly sound in the back of his throat. "Did you sleep with him, too?" Magnus's cat eyes widened. "Alexander!" "Well, I don't know anything about your past, do I?" Alec demanded. "You won't tell me anything; you just say it doesn't matter." Magnus's face ..
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Nice work in there, Herondale, setting the place on fire," Gabriel observed. "Good thing we were there to clean up after you, or the whole plan would have gone down in flames, along with the shreds of your reputation." "Are you implying that shreds of my reputation remain intact?" Will demanded with mock horror. "Clearly I have done something wrong. Or not doing something wrong as the case may be." He banged on the side of the carriage. "T..
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will-herondale
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Cassandra Clare |
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474dbeb
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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"
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tiberius-blackthorn
jace-herondale
lord-of-shadows
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3c758cb
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And Jessamine-Jessamine was gazing at her in abject horror, like someone who has seen a vision of their own ghost. For a moment Tessa felt a stab of guilt. It lasted only a moment, though. Slowly Jessamine lowered her hand from her mouth, her face still very pale. "Goodness, my nose is enormous," she exclaimed. "Why didn't anyone tell me?"
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jessamine
clockwork-angel
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f5dab76
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Well, hello there, Mother," Sebastian said in a voice like silk. "Surprised to see me?"
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sebastian-verlac
surprise
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Cassandra Clare |
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3d7afcb
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It was Eric's voice not Simon's, on the recorded message. "Ladies, ladies " he said. Though it was the millionth time she'd heard the recording, Clary couldn't help rolling her eyes. "If you've reached this message that means our boy Simon is out partying. But please don't fight among yourselves. There's always enough Simon to go around." There was a muffled yell, some laughter, and then the long sound of the beep."
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city-of-glass-outtake
simon-lewis
mortal-instruments
eric
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Cassandra Clare |
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9b00ef8
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He played of love and loss and years of silence, words unsaid and vows unspoken, and all the spaces between his heart and theirs; and when he was done, and he'd set the violin back in its box, Will's eyes were closed, but Tessa's were full of tears.
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tessa-gray
jem-carstairs
will-herondale
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Cassandra Clare |
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1a82e6a
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He was still stroking the inside of her wrist, his touch doing odd delicious things to her skin and nerves.
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Cassandra Clare |
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7aa408c
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And like lambs to a slaughter we shall follow...
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Cassandra Clare |
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a2bf8f1
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You can keep it a secret.... But secrets have their own weight, and it can be a very heavy one.
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Cassandra Clare |
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8f89d52
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When Will says 'enterprising', he means 'morally deficient.'" "No, I mean enterprising," said Will. "When I mean morally deficient, I say, 'Now, that's something I would have done."
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the-infernal-devices
will-herondale
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3bc1c2c
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And if we don't have Energy runes, we'll have to get our energy the old-fashioned way." Mark looked puzzled. "Drugs?" "Chocolate," Emma said. "I brought chocolate. Mark, where do you even come up with these things?" Mark smiled crookedly, shrugging one shoulder. "Faerie humor?"
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mark-blackthorn
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d99d034
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But what of you?" Gabriel said, and they were very close now, almost touching. "It is your choice to make now, to stay or return." "I will stay," Cecily said. "I choose the war." Gabriel let out the breath he hadn't realized he was holding. "You will give up your home?" "A drafty old house in Yorkshire?" Cecily said. "This is London." "And give up what is familiar?" "Familiar is dull." "And give up seeing your parents? It is against the Law..
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cecily
gabriel-lightworm
cecily-herondale
gabriel-lightwood
clockwork-princess
the-infernal-devices
gabriel
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Cassandra Clare |
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8bd7a9c
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Jace told me once you'd walk all over my heart in high-heeled boots, and it hasn't stopped me. Isabelle gave a little gasp of startled laughter. "He said that? And you stuck around?" He leaned in toward her ... "I would consider it an honor." --
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In the end it was Shadowhunting they had bonded over--a shared love of sharp-edged weapons, gleaming seraph blades, the painful pleasure of burning Marks, the thought-numbing swiftness of battle. When Alec had wanted to go out hunting alone with Jace, leaving Izzy behind, Jace had spoken up for her: "We need her with us; she's the best there is. Aside from me, of course." She had loved him just for that."
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Clary made fun of him about his new look; but, then, Clary found everything about Simon's love life borderline hilarious.
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humor
love-life
simon-lewis
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ca19741
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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."
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humor
jace-lightwood
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c36519e
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Alec: Catarina made up the Bermuda Triangle? Magnus: Don't be ridiculous, Alexander. That was Ragnor.
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People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but it's the way you live your life that matters. And the people you know. Valentine was Hodge's friend, and I don't think Hodge really had anyone else in his life to challenge him or make him be a better person. If I'd had that life, I don't know how I would have turned out. But I didn't. I have my family. And I have you.
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family
friendship
inspirational
simon-lewis
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Cassandra Clare |
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a37b343
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The bad things can't matter more than the good things
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shadowhunters
lord-of-shadows
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Cassandra Clare |
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fed19f8
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Hurry up, mundie boy, we've got work to do.
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mortal-instruments
simon
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60462ac
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We?" Simon looked at him in disbelief. "Are you ever going home?" "What, bored with my company already?" "Let me ask you something," Simon said. "Do you find me fascinating to be around?" "What was that?" Jace said. "Sorry, I think I fell asleep for a moment. Do, continue with whatever mesmerizing thing you were saying."
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humor
jace-wayland
simon-lewis
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ce5c10b
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Her green eyes flutter all the way open, and she looks amused. It pricks his ego slightly. After kiss, shouldn't she be fainting at his feet? But she's grinning.
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clary-fray
jace-wayland
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596dab9
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You know," Clary said, "most psychologists agree that hostility is really just sublimated sexual attraction." "Ah," said Jace blithely, "that might explain why I so often run into people who seem to dislike me."
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There were some memories, though, that never faded.
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ed81036
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I can't believe he took you to an actual resteraunt. I assumed his idea od a date would be making you watch him play World of Warcraft with his nerd friends.
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simon-lewis
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49afb12
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And then we met you, and it was like he woke up. You couldn't see it, because you'd never known him any different. But I saw it. Hodge saw it. Alec saw it -why do you think he hated you so much? It was like that form the second we met you. You thought it was amazing that you could see us, and it was, but what was amazing to me was that Jace
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isabelle-lightwood
jace-wayland
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You are the central point about which his world spins.
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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."
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jace-lightwood
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Father . . . ," Gabriel began. "Father is a worm." Will gave a short laugh. He was in gear as if he had just come from the practice room, and his hair curled damply against his temples. He was not looking at Tessa, but she had grown used to that. Will hardly ever looked at her unless he had to. "It's good to see you've come round to our view of things, Gabriel, but this is an unusual way of announcing it." Gideon shot Will a reproachful loo..
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gideon-lightwood
gabriel-lightwood
will-herondale
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33be4a4
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Hello, Uncle Brother Zachariah," James said without opening his eyes. "I would say that I'm sorry to bother you, but I'm sure this is the most excitement you've had all year. Not so lively in the City of Bones, now is it?" "James!" Will snapped. "Don't talk to Jem like that." "As if I am not used to badly behaved Herondales, Brother Zachariah said, in the way Jem had always tried to make peace between Will and the world."
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Magnus called me and asked me to come and see you. He tried to reach you, but he couldn't. He wants you to put him in touch with the Praetor Lupus." "Put him in touch with..." Jordan shook his head. "You can't just call the Praetor. It's not like 1-800-WEREWOLF." --
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Of course it's not okay with me, I'm a teenage boy. As far as I'm concerned, this is the worst thing that's happenedd since I found out why Magnus was banned from Peru" - Jace"
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Cassandra Clare |
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f7d9d0e
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Nothing less than 7 inches.
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that-s-what-she-said
salacious-talk
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Cassandra Clare |
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eaa7e7a
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Jace shook his head. "I don't care if I did just set myself on fire," he said. "I'm not hugging you."
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simon-lewis
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