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That sounds terrific, thought Cary, just you, your comatose wife your shell-shocked son, and your daughter who hates your guts. Not to mention that yo...more

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The more you try to crush your nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop.

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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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She had worn the Morgenstern ring since Jace had left it for her, and sometimes she wondered why. Did she really want to be reminded of Valentine? And...more

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...; Clary saw the group of lycanthropes look up, alert as a group of hunting dogs senting game. She turned- And saw Luke, tired and bloodstained, com...more

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Family isn't blood. It's the people who love you. The people who have your back.

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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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What do you think it would have been like if Valentine had brought you up along with me? Would you have loved me?"Clary was very glad she had put her ...more

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He made it very clear that he didn’t want me here,” she said at last. “That my remaining at the Institute is not the happy chance I thought it was. No...more

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Will is… difficult,” Jem said. “But family is difficult. If I didn’t think the Institute was the best place for you, Tessa, I wouldn’t say it was. And...more

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What could you do, when what threatened the ones you loved was something else you loved just as much?

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I don’t know,” Mark said, looking down at his own long pale fingers tangled in the little boy’s brown curls. “He just – Julian left, and Tavvy fell as...more

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He will choose us," Julian said. "We are his family."Kieran's eye shone. "I wouldn'tbe so sure, young Shadowhunter. Those of the Hunt are loyal to the...more

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For the first time, he looked at her, and she wasn’t a stranger, she was Clary—his friend. His family. The girl he’d sworn always to protect. The girl...more

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Tobias loved her more than he’d loved anything—his family, his duty, even himself. There, perhaps, the Herondale blood ran true.