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Tact is just lying for adults.

Cassandra Clare

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Cassandra Clare
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: July 31
Author
Film Producer
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Teheran
Judith Rumelt
Tact
Adults
Lying

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In Will's experience, when someone who ought to be afraid wasn't, the reason was rarely bravery. Usually it meant that they knew something you didn't.
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I've heard the word 'fear'. I simply choose to believe it doesn't apply to me.
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He'd burn the whole world down til he could dig out you of the ashes.
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You might want to lie down, Magnus advised. I find that it helps when the crushing sense of horrible realization sets in.
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Achilles was murdered with a poisoned arrow, and Jason died alone, killed by his own rotting ship. Such is the fate of heroes.
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Going round and around inside a dryer can be fatal, whereas pasta is rarely fatal. Unless Isabelle makes it.
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I hate ducks. Don't know why. I just always have.
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You're a public menace. You shouldn't be allowed out on your own.
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And he understands. He understands why people hold hands: he’d always thought it was about possessiveness, saying This is mine. But it’s about maintaining contact. It is about speaking without words. It is about I want you with me and don’t go.
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It's very advanced of you to have accepted my mortality so fatalistically.
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There is no pretending, Jace said with absolute clarity. I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.
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Dear Alec and Magnus, This is the first postcard of five. Don't freak out or anything, but I need you to send me $150,000 to cover the cost of: 1) Two diamanté crowns 2) 20 peacocks 3) 300 chocolate lollipops in the shape of your heads 4) My dress 5) 500 lbs of glitter 6) One white horse (More to come in other cards) -Isabelle
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I'm not unhappy, he said. Only people with no purpose are unhappy. I've got a purpose.
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[...] I recall what you said to me once, Will went on. That words have the power to change us. Your words have changed me, Tess they have made me a better man than I would have been otherwise. Life is a book, and there are a thousand pages I have not read. I would read them together with you, as many as I can, before I die -
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So you really cant think of anyone else who might want to kill you?asked Jace. Unlike in your case there arent actually all that many people who dislike me.said Simon.
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Do you really wish to disobey me, Marbas? Do you wish to anger my father?
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Other people have shrubbery in their gardens. You have a bottomless pit.
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Eventually I fell asleep in the Rabies and Lycanthropy section. Woolsey bites on occasion, and I'm concerned.' - Magnus Bane
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Speaking of hope, did you see that shot Alec got off with his bow? That's my boyfriend. He beamed and wiggled his fingers blue sparks shot from them. He shone all over. Only Magnus, Simon thought resignedly, would have access to sequined battle armor.
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I am not going to live, and I can choose to be as much for her as I can be, to burn as brightly for her as I wish, and for a shorter time, than to burden her with someone only half-alive for a longer time. i is my choice, William, and you cannot make it for me.
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