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

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Something inside Clary cracked and broke, and words came pouring out. 'What do you want me to tell you? The truth? The truth is that I love Simon like...more

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Look, it's easy to outsmart a werewolf or a vampire," Jace said. "They're no smarter than anyone else. But faeries live for hundreds of years and they...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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My one true love remains my self... I dump myself occasionally to keep it interesting

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If there were such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood.

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She shook her head. She was so pale under the diffuse lamp-light that she looked almost transparent, as if Simon could have looked right through her. ...more

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People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.