Will-," Tessa began but it was too late, Church made a yowling noise at being woken, and lashed out with his claws. Will began to swear. Tessa left, unable to hide the slightest of smiles as she went.


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"There w...
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It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. ...
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Will looked horrified. "What kind of monster could possibly hate chocolate?
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Remember when you tried to convince me to feed a poultry pie to the mallards in the park to see if y...
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Don't you think 'Mark is kind of a weird name for a Shadowhunter?" Julian was saying as Emma approac...
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What did Isabelle want?" Jace asked.
Alec hesitated. "Isabelle says the Queen of the Seelie Cou...
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Will suspected Jem was in fact cleverer than he was himself - but he lacked Will's tendency to assum...
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So it's true what they say about warlocks, then?"
Alec gave him a very unpleasant look. "Wha...
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What I actually want to call you is a hell of a lot more unprintable than your name
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Magnus raised his hands above his head and clapped once. The room flooded with light. "You see? You ...
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I can't believe he didn't have the dignity and presence of mind just to get drunk and pass out in so...
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If you're texting Magnus to say 'I think u r kewl' I'm going to kill you
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My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health.
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Isabelle snorted, "All the boys are gay. In this truck, anyway. Well, not you, Simon."
"...
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Jem gave her a wistful look. “Must you go? I was rather hoping that you’d stay and be a minister...
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And now," Eric yelled into his mircophone, "we're going to sing a new song-one we just wrote. This o...
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Take off your shirt."
Jace raised his eyebrows.
"I'm not going to attack you," she said i...
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Other crack teams get bat boomerangs and wall-climbing powers; we get Aquatruck.
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I've got the Mark of Cain," said Simon. "That means nothing can kill me, right?"
"You can kill ...
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aren't you, uh... reproducing?

"sure, we love reproducing it's one of our favorite things...
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Tessa touched his wrist lightly with her hand. "Be brave," she said. "It's not a duck, is it?
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I don't want tea," said Clary, with muffled force. "I want to find my mother. And then I want to fin...
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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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He made it very clear that he didn’t want me here,” she said at last. “That my remaining at th...
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Eternity is a long time to spend alone, without others of your kind.
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Jace broke off the kiss and stepped back with an exhale; before Clary could say anything, a chorus o...
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You could have fooled me. Everytime I called you, Luke said you were sick. I figured you were avoidi...
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I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or ...
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What's this?" he demanded, looking from Clary to his companions, as if they might know what she was ...
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Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.
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You could have had anything else in the world, and you asked for me."
She smiled up at him. Fil...
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And now I’m looking at you,” he said, “and you’re asking me if I still want you, as if I cou...
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In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn't matter how hard it was to make it. It matter...
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When you love someone, they become a part of who you are. They’re in everything you do. They’re ...
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Do not let any of them tell you who you are. You are the flame that cannot be put out. You are the s...
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Every decision you make, makes you. Never let other people choose who you’re going to be.
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Your place is with me," Jem said. "It always Will be.
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You sound as if you don't mind what happens to it," said Tessa. "Won't you miss it here? This place ...
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It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me...
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People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you l...
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Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.
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You've always been what you are. That's not new. What you'll get used to is knowing it.
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One finds nobility in the oddest places.
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Patience, grasshopper," said Maia. "Good things come to those who wait."
"I always thought that...
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If I made a joke about just dropping by, would you write me off as cliché?
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I've never minded it," he went on. "Being lost, that is. I had always thought one could not truly be...
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Will tossed the bloody cloth aside. “And you wonder why we aren’t friends.”
“I just wo...
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It was odd, (Tessa thought), what brought out tenderness in people.
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You're not gay, are you?"
Simon's greenish color deepened. "If I were, I would dress better.
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Is this Clarissa Fray?" The voice on the other end of the phone sounded familiar, though not immedia...
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I learned to play the instruments of war," he said, "and paint in blood.
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The first morning Simon had been at Amatis's house, a grinning lycanthrope had showed up on the door...
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And second, keep in mind that you are a weapon. In theory, when you're done with training, you shoul...
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So--what's it like, being a vampire?"

"Aline!" Isabelle looked appalled. "You can't just ...
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Fresh is better. But you've never drunk fresh blood. Have you?"
Simon raised his eyebrow in res...
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Happy birthday, Alexander," Magnus murmured.
"Thanks for remembering," Alec whispered back.
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While the Clave disapproves of trespassers, oddly they take an even darker view of beheading and ski...
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I'm sorry. I use my rapier wit to hide my inner pain.
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By the Angel," Jace said, looking the demon up and down. "I knew Greater Demons were meant to be ugl...
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It’s fascinating. You know all these words, and they’re all English, but when you string them to...
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Sebastian just smiled. “I could hear your heart beating,” he said softly. “When you were watch...
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Don't tell me," Jace said, "Simon's turned himself into an ocelot and you want me to do something ab...
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Don't stop there. I suppose there are also, what, vampires and werewolves and zombies?"
"Of cou...
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A lot of people have asked me about some of the characters that appear in 'Clockwork Prince,'...
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Fate is never fair. You are caught in a current much stronger than you are; struggle against it and ...
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Do you remember,” he said, “when we first met and I told you I was ninety percent sure putting a...
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Alec muttered a retort into his coffee. It rhymed with something that sounded a lot more like "ducki...
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[Julian]"Remember, Mark is in charge.”
“Does he know that?” said Livvy.
Julian sough...
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Do you remember back at the hotel when you promised that if we lived, you’d get dressed up in a nu...
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The more beautiful the skin is, the more deadly it is. That's what Will's like. All that pretty face...
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I'm not unhappy," he said. "Only people with no purpose are unhappy. I've got a purpose.
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How rude. Many who have gazed upon me have compared the experience to gazing
at the radiance of...
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It wasn’t sexy," he said.
“It was a little sexy,” Simon said.
He felt much better, ...
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Isabelle waved a hand. "No need to worry, big brother. Nothing happened. Of course," she added as Al...
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The light that burned twice as bright burned half as long.
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No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily.
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