Her arms groped forward to guide her when her tears blocked her vision in darkness. Then she couldn't run any more. She sank to her knees and began to cry in her terror. She wanted Gary. She suddenly felt strong arms around her. She bent her head to bury it in Gary's shoulder, trembling in the darkness. Whimpering like a small animal in a trap, she pushed herself closer to him and said in a choked voice, "I'm so frightened!" "I know, my love," the voice said. "I'm so sorry you were hurt." She felt herself being pulled up to him, his grip around her tight. It was a strange feeling in this pitch-black hallway, where not even the light of the moon cast any illumination. The lips she touched were cold and yet they responded to her with an unusual warmth. His hands massaged her back. Something, Melanie thought, was wrong with that. The hands were too smooth, not like a plastered wrist would feel. "Gary?" she asked, backing away. She didn't trust what she couldn't see. "My love," the voice whispered, "there is no need to fear now. I shall protect you from those who mean you harm.
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I've been told I have a lovely, melodic reading voice." He flipped the book open to the f... CASSANDRA CLARE She turned and looked at him. "Ducks?" she said again. A smile tugged the edge of his mouth. "I... CASSANDRA CLARE I don't care," Clary said. "He'd do it for me. Tell me he wouldn't. If I were missing-" "He'd ... CASSANDRA CLARE Isabelle snorted. 'All the boys are gay. In this truck, anyway. Well, not you, Simon.' 'You not... CASSANDRA CLARE You never called me back," he said. "I called you so many times and you never called me back." ... CASSANDRA CLARE With Jace, you don't really get to choose your insulting nickname. CASSANDRA CLARE If you're texting Magnus to say 'I think u r kewl,' I'm going to kill you." "Who's Magnus?" Max... CASSANDRA CLARE Usually I'm remarkably good natured. Try me on a day that doesn't end in y. CASSANDRA CLARE Out of the corner of her eye she thought she saw Jace shoot her a look of white rage - but when she ... CASSANDRA CLARE Investigation?" 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"So you're just that friendly with every... CASSANDRA CLARE Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry. CASSANDRA CLARE One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power... CASSANDRA CLARE Will’s voice dropped. “Everyone makes mistakes, Jem.” “Yes,” said Jem. “You just ma... CASSANDRA CLARE As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be? CASSANDRA CLARE All knowledge hurts. CASSANDRA CLARE Later, when his father left him, the boy cried over his pet, until eventually his father sent a serv... CASSANDRA CLARE Will-," Tessa began but it was too late, Church made a yowling noise at being woken, and lashed out ... CASSANDRA CLARE Church was doing what he often did when dropped - lying on his back with all four legs in the air, p... CASSANDRA CLARE Clary felt suddenly annoyed. "When the self-congratulatory part of the evening is over, maybe we cou... CASSANDRA CLARE Jace?" "Yeah?" "How did you know I had Shadowhunter blood? Was there some way you could te... CASSANDRA CLARE A Mark that spoke of loss was still a Mark, a remembrance. You could not lose something you never ha... CASSANDRA CLARE We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who lov... CASSANDRA CLARE Actually," said Jace, "I prefer to think that I'm a liar in a way that's uniquely my own. CASSANDRA CLARE Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave on... CASSANDRA CLARE We live and breathe words. .... It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alo... CASSANDRA CLARE They say you cannot love two people equally at once,” she said. “And perhaps for others that is ... CASSANDRA CLARE Whatever you are physically...male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy--all those things matte... CASSANDRA CLARE What do you want?" "Just coffee. Black - like my soul. CASSANDRA CLARE He'd felt like a jack-o-lantern for the past few days, as if his guts had been yanked out with a for... CASSANDRA CLARE A pair of werewolves occupied another booth. They were eating raw shanks of lamb and arguing about w... CASSANDRA CLARE Hearts are breakable," Isabelle said. "And I think even when you heal, you're never what you were be... CASSANDRA CLARE They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite CASSANDRA CLARE The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me. CASSANDRA CLARE And I'm suppose to sit by while you date boys and fall in love with someone else, get married...?" H... CASSANDRA CLARE He is a Shadowhunter,” said Jocelyn. “His loyalty will be to Clave and Covenant.” “He�... CASSANDRA CLARE Just take the weapon you hold in your hand and drive it through his heart," Valentine's voice was so... CASSANDRA CLARE Wear that scarf," he said, pointing to a blue cashmere scarf hanging on a peg. "It matches your eyes... CASSANDRA CLARE Must you go? I was rather hoping you'd stay and be a ministering angel, but if you must go, you must... CASSANDRA CLARE Goodness," Tessa said to the back of his head. "If you keep seeing Six-Fingered Nigel like this, he'... CASSANDRA CLARE Blue does not go with everything," Will told her. "It does not go with red, for instance." "I ... CASSANDRA CLARE I see you're determined to miss my point." "If you're point is that there was a pretty girl in ... CASSANDRA CLARE Do reasons matter when there's nothing that can be done to change things. CASSANDRA CLARE Tessa poked at her left incisor with her tongue. It was flat again, an ordinary tooth. "I don't unde... CASSANDRA CLARE So you don't ever get angry at him?" Jem laughed out loud. "I would hardly say that. Som... CASSANDRA CLARE Will smiled the way Lucifer might have smiled, moments before he fell from Heaven. CASSANDRA CLARE When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is no... CASSANDRA CLARE Drowning yourself won't help, she told herself sternly. Now, drowning Will, on the other hand... CASSANDRA CLARE A little girl robbed you?" Tessa said. "Actually, she wasn’t a little girl at all, as it turn... CASSANDRA CLARE Jessamine recoiled from the paper as if it were a snake. "A lady does not read the newspaper. The so... CASSANDRA CLARE Black hair and blue eyes are my favorite combination. CASSANDRA CLARE That was enterprising," Will sounded nearly impressed. Nate smiled. Tess shot him a furious loo... CASSANDRA CLARE Will rolled up his sleeves. "We'll probably have to knock down the door--" "Or," said Jem, rea... CASSANDRA CLARE Well, she's not responding to my advances," he observed more brightly than he felt, "so she must be ... CASSANDRA CLARE Sometimes, when I have to do something I don't want to do, I pretend I'm a character from a book. It... CASSANDRA CLARE Let me give you a piece of advice. The handsome young fellow who's trying to rescue you from a hideo... CASSANDRA CLARE Are you implying that shreds of my reputation remain intact?" Will demanded with mock horror. "Clear... CASSANDRA CLARE If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all? CASSANDRA CLARE You know," Gabriel said, "there was a time I thought we could be friends, Will." "There w... CASSANDRA CLARE It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. ... CASSANDRA CLARE Will looked horrified. "What kind of monster could possibly hate chocolate? CASSANDRA CLARE Remember when you tried to convince me to feed a poultry pie to the mallards in the park to see if y... CASSANDRA CLARE Don't you think 'Mark is kind of a weird name for a Shadowhunter?" Julian was saying as Emma approac... CASSANDRA CLARE What did Isabelle want?" Jace asked. Alec hesitated. "Isabelle says the Queen of the Seelie Cou... CASSANDRA CLARE Will suspected Jem was in fact cleverer than he was himself - but he lacked Will's tendency to assum... CASSANDRA CLARE So it's true what they say about warlocks, then?" Alec gave him a very unpleasant look. "Wha... CASSANDRA CLARE What I actually want to call you is a hell of a lot more unprintable than your name CASSANDRA CLARE Magnus raised his hands above his head and clapped once. The room flooded with light. "You see? You ... CASSANDRA CLARE I can't believe he didn't have the dignity and presence of mind just to get drunk and pass out in so... CASSANDRA CLARE If you're texting Magnus to say 'I think u r kewl' I'm going to kill you CASSANDRA CLARE My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health. CASSANDRA CLARE Isabelle snorted, "All the boys are gay. In this truck, anyway. Well, not you, Simon." "... CASSANDRA CLARE