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Books are for reading, not for turning oneself into livestock.

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Cassandra Clare
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: July 31
Author
Film Producer
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Teheran
Judith Rumelt
Turning
Oneself
Books
Reading
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Livestock

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Hey, said Jace. who was sitting on an overturned speaker, looking at his cellphone, do you want to see a photo of Alec and Magnus in Berlin? Not really, said Simon. Magnus is wearing lederhosen. And yet, still no.
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Maybe that was why she couldn't cry, she realized, staring dry-eyed at the ceiling. Because what was the point in crying when there was no one there to comfort you? And what was worse, when you couldn't even comfort yourself?
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And you love Sophie. Gideon's mouth tensed. She's a mundane and a servant, said Gabriel. I don't know what you expect to come of it, Gideon. Nothing, Gideon said roughly. I expect nothing. But the fact that you believe I should shows that our family brought us up to believe that we should do right only if some reward was the result
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Okay. I've got a good one. Simon stroked Isabelle's hair feeling her lashes flutter against his neck as she closed her eyes. A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.
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It’s like a cotillion, this partners business, except with killing.” “So, exactly like a cotillion,” said Simon.
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It is always better to live the truth than to live a lie. And that lie would have kept him alone forever. He may have had nearly nothing for 5 years, but now he can have everything. A boy who looks like that... Magnus.
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I swear that woman had a previous career as a death-hunter selling tragic ballads down around the Seven Dials, said Will. And I do wish she wouldn't sing about poisoning just after we've eaten.
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I love reading epic fantasies and big fat books and so I really wanted to write one. I think you always write what you want to read.
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Wanderlust is not unheard of in our kind it comes upon us now and then. When you can live forever, staying in one place can come to seem a dull prison after many, many years.
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Weapons, when they break and are mended, can be stronger at the mended places. Perhaps hearts are the same.
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You can't just go around killing people. You're right. You can't go around killing people.
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I have the benefit of experience which tells me that sulking solves nothing
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There is more to life than surviving.
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It's not like a stab wound you can protect me from. It's like a million little paper cuts every day.
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Your city is under attack, he said. 'The wards are down, adn the streets area full of demons. And you want to know why I haven't called you? Magnus to Alec
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The way he looked at you. I got it then. He loved you, and it was killing him. He won't get over you, Clary, he can't.
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So you’re suggesting we take the train up to York, meet a ninety-year-old man, leap on him, and yank out his hair? I’m sure the Clave will be ecstatic.” “They’ll just say you’re mad,” said Jessamine. “They already think it, so what’s the difference, really?
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There is nothing quite like the moral absolutism of the young. -Hodge
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You're the first Shadowhunter I've ever met. “That’s too bad,” said Jace, “since all the others you meet from now on will be a terrible letdown.
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Eternity is a long time to spend alone, without others of your kind.
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