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Tessa had lain down beside him and slid her arm beneath his head, and put her head on his chest,listening to the ever-weakening beat of his heart. And...more

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Their beauty had always seemed to him like the beauty of pressed flowers-lovely, but dead.

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He opened his mouth. The words were there. He was about to say them when a jolt of terror went through him, the terror of someone who, wandering in a ...more

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Why not risk your life, if you don't want to live anyway? Why not risk your life if you'll never be happy no matter what you do?

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People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but it's the way you live your life that matters. And the people you kn...more

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Value your parabatai," he said. "For it is a precious bond. All love is precious. It is why we do what we do. Why do we fight demons? Why are they not...more

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They sat in silence on the windowsill, their hands locked across the distance between them.

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Clary," he said. "You're Clary. You're my best friend.

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I wish I had a parabatai," Emma said. "It's like someone who's your family, but because they want to be, not because they have to be.

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Shapes began to appear in the mist as it thickened. Clary saw herself and Simon as children, holding hands, crossing a street in Brooklyn,; she had ba...more

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Isabelle was holding an umbrella. It was clear plastic, decorated with decals of colorful flowers. It was one of the girliest things Simon had ever se...more

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Most of us do things for reasons that are more purely personal. For love, or for hate.

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Jessamine recoiled from the paper as if it were a snake. "A lady does not read the newspaper. The society pages, perhaps, or the theater news. Not thi...more

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Whatever you are physically, male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy - all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have ...more

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With God on your side, what does luck matter?