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Something inside Clary cracked and broke, and words came pouring out. 'What do you want me to tell you? The truth? The truth is that I love Simon like...more

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Look, it's easy to outsmart a werewolf or a vampire," Jace said. "They're no smarter than anyone else. But faeries live for hundreds of years and they...more

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Pain is only what you allow it to be

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Maybe it's true what the Seelie Queen had said, after all: Love made you a liar.

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Don’t be with him, don’t want him, don’t go with him. Be with me. Want me. Stay with me.I don’t know how to be without you.

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What would you do if you saw something nobody else could see?”The tape gun fell out of Luke’s hand, and hit the tiled hearth. He knelt to pick it up, ...more

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Every time you rip the bandages off, you just open the wound up again. Every time he sees you, it's like tearing off the bandages.

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If you never tell anyone the truth about yourself, eventually you start to forget. The love, the heartbreak, the joy, the despair, the things I did th...more

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And Nephilim—we tend to love very overwhelmingly. To fall in love only once, to die of grief over love—my old tutor used to say that the hearts of the...more

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It was odd, (Tessa thought), what brought out tenderness in people.

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Tessa: Are all vampires like that? Cold like that?Charlotte: Many of them have been alive a long time. They don't see things the way we do.

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The best lies are based on thetruth, at least in part

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Well, I want novels,' said Tessa. 'Or poetry. Books are for reading, not for turning oneself into livestock.' Will's eyes glittered. 'I think we may h...more

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When to people tell the same lie...""They are working together," Will finished

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It is always better to live the truth than to live a lie.