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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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Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change -Clary Fray

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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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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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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

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I knew a girl, once, immortal like me-""And she was with someone mortal?" said Alec. "What happened?""He died," Magnus said. There was a finality to t...more

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We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there i...more

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