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Sophie has a gift," she said. "She has the Sight. She can see what others do not. In her old life sh...

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The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel

The moon was wide—too wide and too close. Mentally, Simon told the moon to stop being so close and b...

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The Fiery Trial

Are you in fashion? You look like you're in fashion.""No," [Magnus] said. "I am fashion.

The Fall of the Hotel Dumort

You know, there's a reason we can remember," [Catarina] said more softly."That's much easier when yo...

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The Fall of the Hotel Dumort

As long as Simon didn’t think about the past, the past couldn’t hurt him. But, increasingly, he coul...

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The Evil We Love

What's next? You want to convince me they're making another crap Last Airbender movie?

She had a soul, and that meant she could be saved.

The Course of True Love [and First Dates]

The posters bore the words WITH THE PASSING YEARS COMES...IMPOTENCE! Magnus found himself staring at...

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The Course of True Love [and First Dates]

Don’t kill her! Only maim her a little!

The Copper Gauntlet

Certainly there were places of greater natural beauty—but Paris but UNNATURAL beauty, which was argu...

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Magnus looked away, so as not to see the wreckage. "I wish you luck," he said. "Luck and love." Edmu...

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Ducks, embrace me as your king!"--James Herondale.

Hello, companion," said Magnus.The monkey made a terrible sound, half snarl and half hiss."I begin t...

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The Bane Chronicles

The mundanes put their faith in their paper money, and when that turns to ash, the world will turn u...

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The Bane Chronicles

GOD HAS NOT MERCY AND NOR WILL I' - The Midnight Heir (The Bane Chronicles, 4) by Cassandra Clare an...

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When Magnus looked at Imasu, he saw Imasu had dropped his head into his hands."Er," Magnus said. "Ar...

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To them, as to Magnus, time was like rain, glittering as it fell, changing the world, but something ...

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The Bane Chronicles

Vampires took offense SO easily—and Parisian vampires were the worst of all.' - The Runaway Queen (T...

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He felt he could not be honest without disappointing everybody he loved.

The Bane Chronicles

Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. Nor was it wise to tempt angels, even of the fallen sort.

Today 5:14 p.m."Mrrrrrowl. Mrrrrrowl.""Ow! Ow, stupid cat! Ahem. You told me, 'stop calling, Isabell...

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He lifted a glass. Ragnor and Catarina did not join him, but Magnus was happy to make the toast on h...

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Sincerity and gravity, in Magnus's opinion, were highly overrated, as was being forced to relive unp...

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Magnus's ship would sail that night...His interest in the ship and his thoughts of an adventure to c...

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The Bane Chronicles

Magnus had animated one of his magnificent Chinese fans, and it flapped ineffectively at him, barely...

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To them, as to Magnus, time was like rain, glittering as it fell, changing the world, but something ...

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Even the girl he'd danced with had thought it was some marvelous trick. She had been enveloped in re...

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The Bane Chronicles

Love could be a last hope and a star to steer by.

The Bane Chronicles

Magnus threw the monkey a fig. The monkey took the fig."There," said Magnus. "Let us consider the ma...

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The ride to Alicante had been like something out of a dream, or a cheesy romance novel. The two of t...

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Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy

Sometimes people get taken away from you whether you want it or not. And sometimes that hurts so muc...

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Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy

Little James Herondale, age two, was in fact holding a dagger quite well. He stabbed it into a sofa ...

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Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy

As the sun dipped beneath the horizon, the clouds overhead blushed cotton-candy pink. Their reflecti...

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Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy

Why should we isolate people who are brave enough to try to become like us--who want to help people?...

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Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy

[Magnus] held on to the boy, newborn in grave dirt and blood, and he wished that he had found him de...

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Saving Raphael Santiago

What if everything you believe is wrong and you could still be loved and still be forgiven?

When the fey were worried, it was time to panic.

Saving Raphael Santiago

They had met at a club fifteen years before, Etta and Magnus. He had convinced her to dance with him...

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Saving Raphael Santiago

El hambre agudiza el ingenio,” said Raphael.Hunger sharpens the wit.“Good proverb,” said Magnus. “Ho...

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He held her close enough to kiss, close enough to whisper the most important secrets in the world, a...

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Saving Raphael Santiago

The Nephilim - the bogeyman for monsters, and all those who could be monsters.

Oh no, Raphael, please don't leave me," Magnus said in a monotone. "Where would I be without the lig...

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Magnus hoped if he ever went mad like that himself, so mad that he poisoned the very air round him a...

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Saving Raphael Santiago

The Smile won Matthew extra time before bed, extra Christmas pudding, extra anything he wanted. Adul...

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Nothing but Shadows

And what do you like to do, little man?" "I like-books," James had said. While standing in the books...

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Nothing but Shadows

Would you like me to magically strip you and put you in gear?” Mr. Fell asked. “In front of everybod...

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Nothing but Shadows

There is truth in stories. There is truth in one of your paintings, boy, or in a sunset or a couplet...

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Break my heart, he said. "Break it in pieces. I give you my permission.

There were valuable first editions of books in the enormous library, most of them had been scribbled...

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Your pretense does not fool me, gnome. My eye will be upon you.

Fiction is truth, even if it is not a fact. If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your br...

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Lord of Shadows

If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your beain will live, but your heart will die

Lord of Shadows

To make a true choice, we must have true knowledge.

He picked up the sketchbook, turning it so she could see his work - a gorgeous rendition of a stone ...

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[Kieran]his head propped on a stack of poetry books he’d brought from the library. Almost all of the...

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There's something about a place you've been with someone you love. It takes on a meaning in your min...

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We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people because we love them. We fear dying beca...

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...As if you have discovered a beach you have been visiting all your life is made not of sand but of...

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We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people because we love them. We fear dying beca...

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Truth is to be found in dreams,” the King said, looking down at them. From this angle, Emma could se...

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Emma, everyone's afraid of something. We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people be...

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Everyone is afraid of something. We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people because...

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It is unusual,” said Cristina, “for a revolution to call for fewer rights for people, not more.

You are all that exists on the earth and under the sky that I do love. - Keiran

When no one you know tells the truth, you learn to see under the surface.

Wither thou goest, I will go; thy people shall by my people; where thou diest, will I die, and there...

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Kieran glanced at her with shimmering eyes. Neither looked quite human: The black eye was too dark, ...

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Lady Midnight

Every student, Shadowhunter and mundane alike, knew the name Herondale. It was Jace’s last name. It ...

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That was the last cruel irony of Tobias’s life: that he doomed the woman he would have died to save.

For the first time, he looked at her, and she wasn’t a stranger, she was Clary—his friend. His famil...

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The Lost Herondale

I have been a friend to Shadowhunters. I know many of your families, going back for hundreds of year...

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The Last Stand of the New York Institute

The monster's bride at his door. Magnus could not stop staring. [Jocelyn] was staring too. She seeme...

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The Last Stand of the New York Institute

But Jocelyn Morgenstern was not the kind of woman who wept, not the kind of woman who broke, or Vale...

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The Last Stand of the New York Institute

Aaron was wearing a T-shirt that was practically transparent with washing and sweatpants with a hole...

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Fire wants to burn Water wants to flow Air wants to rise Earth wants to bindChaos wants to devourCal...

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The Iron Trial

Yeah,” Tamara said. “An old bowling alley. There must be a town not too far from here. But how could...

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The Iron Trial

I’m just surprised your parents let you go online,” Call said. It was such a regular, non-fancy way ...

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The Iron Trial

I don't know why I ever helped you.""You like broken things.

The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Princess

It was hard to live normally when you were constantly pretending you didn't see what was going on in...

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One of us," said Malcolm, "is worth five hundred of you. I can burn you to the ground in six seconds...

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And that someone would pay. Revenge is a cold bedfellow, Diana had said, but Emma didn't believe tha...

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The world is terrible," said Mark tonelessly. "And some are drawn down into it and drown there, and ...

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He learned that kisses and touches and professions of love could make you forget, and that the more ...

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Julian had heard stories-whispers really-of other Shadowhunter children who thought or felt differen...

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You’ve got a lot of responsibility now,” Jace said to Julian. “You’ll have to make sure Emma winds u...

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Then why are you here?” Emma demanded. “Oh, is this one of those missed-connections things? We met t...

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We are bound together, Emma, bound together—I breathe when you breathe, I bleed when you bleed, I’m ...

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Hello? This is Clary Fairchild.”“Clary? It’s me, Emma.”“Oh, Emma, hi! I haven’t heard from you in ag...

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I've been thinking of installing a train in my house. It could bring me shrimp crackers from the kit...

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Love is beautiful." - Malcolm Fade

He will choose us," Julian said. "We are his family."Kieran's eye shone. "I wouldn'tbe so sure, youn...

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As long as there is love and memory, there is no true death," - John Carstairs

Nobody calls me 'blondie' and keeps their kneecaps.

Tell me you love me Emma. Even if you don't mean it."-Julian Blackthorn

Is this the girl?” Kieran’s voice was very different: It sounded like waves sliding up the shore. Li...

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Lady Midnight

Do you not tire of eternity? Do you not wish to end your suffering?""By leaping into the Void? Not r...

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The Rise of the Hotel Dumort

He could sleep in the ruins of cities lost for centuries.

Not giving him booze, are you? He's a little young for it.

And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you.

When you love someone, they become a part of who you are. They're in everything you do. They're in t...

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Cassandra Clare

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Born: 1973-07-27

Died: N/A

Cassandra Clare (born July 27, 1973) is the pseudonym of the young adult author |Judith Rumelt. She is best known for her Shadowhunter Chronicles, consisting of The Mortal Instruments and The Infernal Devices series, and The Bane Chronicles, a collection of short stories. Also included in the Shadowhunter Chronicles are the upcoming The Dark Artifices and The Last Hours series, the former of which will have its first installment released in 2015. Clare has previously written fan fiction under the pseudonym Cassandra Claire.More