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Later, when his father left him, the boy cried over his pet, until eventually his father sent a servant to take the body of the bird away and bury it....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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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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As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.

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And she wept as well for the others lost in the Dark War, and she wept for her mother and the loss she had endured, and she wept for Emma and the Blac...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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He remembered Tessa weeping in his arms in Paris, and thinking that he had never known the loss she felt, because he had never loved like she had, and...more

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Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.

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Will. For a moment her heart hesitated. She remembered when Will had died, her agony, the long nights alone, reaching across the bed every morning whe...more

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I did not think you would be angry, Jem burst out, and it was like ice cracking across a frozen waterfall, freeing a torrent. We were engaged, Tessa. ...more

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Sometimes people get taken away from you whether you want it or not. And sometimes that hurts so much, it might be easier to forget.

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All of us lost something. Some of us lost everything.