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What you're blaming yourself for is being who you are. And that's no one's fault and nothing you can change.
Everyone has choices to make; no one has the right to take those choices away from us. Not even out of love.
You know," Clary said, "most psychologists agree that hostility is really just sublimated sexual attraction.
Take my hands,” Alec said. “And take my strength too. Whatever of it you can use to— to keep yourself going.
Something in him was broken, and through that break spilled a blind cruelty, a need to hurt and to push away
I think' she said, choosing her words with care, ; that any good impulse can be twisted into something evil.
Screw the Silent Brothers." "No thanks. There's strong and silent, and then there's just freaky." "Isabelle!
Going round and around inside a dryer can be fatal, whereas pasta is rarely fatal. Unless Isabelle makes it.
So, technically," Simon said, "even though Jace isn't actually related to you, you have kissed your brother.
No, I'm just a very naughty boy. I do all sorts of bad things. I kick kittens. I make rude gestures at nuns.
Magnus was sure that the llama stampede he witnessed was a coincidence. The llamas could not be judging him.
The destruction of all Shadowhunters' said Scott. 'I rather thought you knew that. It isn't a gardening club.
Jem cried out with all his remaining strength. You cannot go where I am going! Nor would I want that for you!
It was only recently that Isabelle had realized other girls weren’t just for envying, avoiding, or disliking.
Life could not be entirely devoted to debauchery and monkeys. Magnus had to finance all the drinking somehow.
Mundies die awfully easily, don't they?" "Isabelle, you know it's bad luck to talk about death in a sickroom.
It was a very bad idea. It was a terrible idea. It was the worst idea he had ever heard. It was irresistible.
Does that mean you agree?" He groaned. "I think it means you crushed my spirit and beat me down." "Fantastic.
Tess?” A soft voice at the door; she looked up and saw Will there, silhouetted in the light from the corridor.
The boy was standing alone as though the broken glass all around him were a shining sea and he were an island.
Jace, on the other hand, looked like the sort of boy who'd come over to your house and burn it down for kicks.
Anyone that looked like that wouldn't need to tie up girls and imprison them in order to get them to marry him
Jace, Clary thought, was the sort of person who liked it when things were happening, even things that were bad
Hey guys! Wish you were here, except not really. We're having fun. Check it out-the pyramids! -Alec and Magnus
I'm tired of watching you be in love with someone else someone who will never love you back, not the way I do.
You may have the worst timing since Napoleon decided the dead of winter was the right moment to invade Russia.
Not everything Jace did was insane and suicidal, she reminded herself. It just seemed that way. -Clary, pg.46-
Doubtless the lunatic asylums of the world are filled with unfortunate women who have failed to see my charms.
So, what are you?" "What I am is someone who doesn't want you to jump out of the window. The rest are details.
It was like a bad movie except he didn’t actually twirl his mustache.” -Jace to Maryse about Valentine, pg.122-
We are chained to this life by a chain of gold, and we dare not sever it for fear of what lies beyond the drop.
If you lay one hand on Simon, vampire, I'll have you chopped up into tiny pieces and fed to my cat. Understand?
It's your gift, to see the beauty and the horror in ordinary things. It doesn't make you crazy, just different.
No matter what the price offered, no Downworlder would fail to listen to a warning against one of the nephilim.
I think," Jace said, "that you don't want to tell your secrets, so you decided to break up with Alec because...
I'll take Shadowhunter, then. Because from what I've experienced of vampires, you mostly suck. No pun intended.
There is more to living than not dying," he said. "Look at the way you live Will. You burn as bright as a star.
Lawful good to lawful evil!" said Simon, pleased. "He's quoting Dungeons and Dragons," said Clary. "Ignore him.
He touched her as he usually touched his beloved violin, with a soft and urgent grace that left her breathless.
We're not dating," Alec said again. "Oh?" Magnus said. "So you're just that friendly with everybody, is that it?
Inanimate objects are harmless indeed, Mr. Mortmain. But one cannot always say the same of the men who use them.
It’s like a cotillion, this partners business, except with killing.” “So, exactly like a cotillion,” said Simon.
Jace suggested that the cast of "Gilligan's Island" could go do something anatomically unlikely with themselves.
It is better than going on loving someone who cannot love me back. Better wasting all that feelings" -Tessa gray
She knew she could not be Jem for Will. No one could. But slowly the hollow places in his heart were filling in.
You couldnt erase everything that caused you pain with recollection.Every memory was valuable; even the bad ones
It was like the calm just as one engaged in battle, Will thought, when thought fled and inevitability took over.
Were you thinking about eating me?” Will inquired. “No!” “No one would blame you,” said Jem. “He’s very annoying.
He'd learned his lesson a long time ago: Even in the midst of heartbreak, you could still find yourself laughing.
Sweet pea?'" Alec said. "I was just trying it out." Alec shook his head. "No." Magnus shrugged. "I'll keep at it.