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If there's a thing I've learned in my life it's to not be afraid of the responsibility that comes with caring for other people. What we do for love: t...more

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Sometimes our lives can change so fast that the change outpaces our minds and hearts.

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I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on othe...more

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Mundane humans create distinctions between themselves, distinctions that seem ridiculous to any Shadowhunter. Their distinctions are based on race, re...more

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Everything changes in my life, and the world stays the same.

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Hate is nothing when weighed against survival. (Valentine)

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But sleep didn't come. She could hear Jace's soft piano playing through the walls, but that wasn't what was keeping her awake. She was thinking of Sim...more

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You are mortal. You age, you die. If that is not hell, pray tell me, what is?

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I've screwed everything up royally. I remember you saying that growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could cha...more

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And when I saw him[my father] lying dead in a pool of his own blood, I knew then that I hadn't stopped believing in God. I'd just stopped believing Go...more

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If there were such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood.

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People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.

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One thing you'll learn as you get older, Simon, is that when people tell you something unpleasant about themselves, it's usually true.

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You don't get it, Clary. You don't understand what it's like to live always at war, to grow up with battle and sacrifice. I guess it's not your fault....more

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She supposed they were imperfections, those marks, but they didn't feel that way to her; they were a history, cut into his body: the map of a life of ...more