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My will and my desire were turned by love, the love that moves the sun and the other stars.' Dante was trying to explain faith, I think, as an overpow...more

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You're my sister," he said finally. "My sister, my blood, my family. I should want to protect you"—he laughed soundlessly without any humor—"to protec...more

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Magnus rolled onto his back and put his feet up on the arm of the sofa. “What do you care if Alec’s miserable?” “What do I care?” Jace said, so loudly...more

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Everyone has something they can't live without.

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But all these were things he could not want, because they were things he could not have, and wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness...more

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wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness

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Sometimes he wondered if he did these things just to test himself. To see if the feelings had gone. But they had not. When he saw her, he wanted to be...more

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She was afraid of nothing and demanded everything.

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You kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire. He had wondered once why love was always phrased in terms of burning. The conflagration in his own...more

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Magnus hoped if he ever went mad like that himself, so mad that he poisoned the very air round him and hurt everyone he came into contact with, that t...more

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It had been a whim, and there was nothing Magnus attached more importance to than a whim.