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The only alternative seems to be doing nothing…and doing nothing, I find, rarely accomplishes anything
By the Angel, it just crushed Sophocles," noted Will. "Has no one respect for the classics these days?
Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change -Clary Fray
I have come to understand something about novels," Tessa said. "And what is that?" "They are not true.
I know there are monsters on this earth,' said Tessa. 'You cannot tell me otherwise. I have seen them.
And write what you love - don't feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny.
As dull as Nate Gray is," Will said, "his head is not actually filled with gears, Henry. He's a human.
You'd think the Angel would have been foresighted enough to give us a birth-control rune, but no dice.
Magnus gazed upon Camille. "Some of my fondest memories include lashings of cream and beautiful women.
The weapons room looked exactly the way something called "the weapons room" sounded like it would look.
It is easier to confront a threat as a mass, a group, not individuals who must be evaluated one by one.
Dear me," said Will, and he took another bite of his apple. "Is it because I'm better-looking than you?
There's no need to clarify my finger snap," said Magnus. "The implication was clear in the snap itself.
Are you the one with the blue eyes?" "Actually, my eyes are usually described as golden...and luminous.
When I think of you, and you are not there, I see you in my mind's eye always with a book in your hand.
Very well," Magnus said. "Let us pause for a moment and consider—Oh, you have already run off Splendid.
When Will truly wants something,” said Jem, quietly, “when he feels something — he can break your heart.
Something snapped inside Maryse. “He is not a Herondale. He is a Lightwood. Jace Lightwood. He’s my son.
Please tell me you did not bring me out here so you could tell me a very boring story about your sister.
I know I told you once that whether God exists or not, we're on our own. But when I'm with you, I'm not.
trying to read his face. It was like a book written in a foreign language she'd studied all too briefly.
And I think that you do not understand that sometimes the only choice is between acceptance and madness.
Mundanes who involve themselves in things they know nothing about are likely to meet unpleasant endings.
Magnus gazed dreamily in his direction. "You should leave him here. I could hang hats on him and things.
What's an eBay?" "A mythical place of great magical power." - Jace Wayland and Clary Fray (City of Bones)
Sebastian never does anything just for fun.” Jace took Clary’s hand and pulled her toward him. “But I do.
Is this one of those days where we all stalk out in fury? Because I simply haven't got the energy for it.
It's too late," she said. "Don't say that." His voice was half a whisper. "I love you, Tessa. I love you.
She still felt his gaze on her like the brush of a finger across the back of her neck, making her shiver.
I wouldn't call that an instrument of music," Ragnor observed sourly. "An instrument of torture, perhaps.
Well, you'll have to wait till tomorrow. I'm out of commission." (he points to his shirt) "Look. Jammies.
Consider it a race to see who kills you first, Daylighter-Valentine, the other Downworlders, or the Clave.
Will had laid down his heart for her and Jem to walk upon because he loved them more than he loved himself
One can love two children. But your heart can be given romantic love to only a single other, said Woolsey.
If you insist on disavowing that which is ugly about what you do, you will never learn from your mistakes.
Charlotte, Will’s being vexing.' 'And the sun has come up in the east,' said Jem, to no one in particular.
No one told you to call your band Salacious Mold, my friend." "We're Millennium Lint now," Simon protested
Hearts are breakable," Isabelle said. "And I think even when you heal, you're never what you were before".
All that existed was Jace; all she felt, hoped, breathed, wanted, and saw was Jace. Nothing else mattered.
Yes," said Will, "you two don't seem to have much in common, save for a penchant for demon women and evil.
You have to give everyone ugly motives for everything they do, because ugly motives are all you understand.
To marry a girl just to make her a widow,” said Gabriel Lightwood. “Many would say that was not a kindness.
That's your truck parked up by the factory isn't it?" Magnus pointed. "It's awfully butch for a bookseller.
Simon to die. Jace to live. Jonathon to retune. And you Valentine's daughter, to be the catalist of it all.
So I lied to you last night. I said that I just wanted one night with you. But I want every night with you.
He was still stroking the inside of her wrist, his touch doing odd delicious things to her skin and nerves.
Weapons, when they break and are mended, can be stronger at the mended places. Perhaps hearts are the same.
Do you not tire of eternity? Do you not wish to end your suffering?" "By leaping into the Void? Not really.
I feel a sense of responsibility," said Jordan. "And where is this feeling located? In your pants, perhaps?
Because viewing my naked chest has caused many women to seriously injure themselves stampeding to get to me.