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But you hate poetry!Yes, but you make me want to write it.

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You know that feeling when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel the cold and darkness coming, see the n...more

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I think that's just a story.""But, Jace," she said. "All stories are true.

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How can you tell? That I like books, I mean.The look on your face when you walked in, somehow I doubted you were that impressed by me.

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Jocelyn recognized reading as a sacred pastime and usually wouldn't interrupt Clary in the middle of a book, even to yell at her.

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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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Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck.

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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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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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It was so odd what brought out tenderness in people. It was never what you have expected.

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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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It is as great a thing to love as it is to be loved. Love is not something that can be wasted.

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

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Words have the power to change us." - Tessa Gray

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One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.