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You have to give everyone ugly motives for everything they do, because ugly motives are all you understand.

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Cassandra Clare
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: July 31
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Film Producer
Journalist
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Screenwriter
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Teheran
Judith Rumelt
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There's nothing wild about me. I'm a solid middle-aged man. Except that once a month you turn into a wolf and go tearing around slaughtering things, Clary said. It could be worse, Luke said. Men my age have been known to purchase expensive sports cars and sleep with supermodels.
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What’s your name, then? ”Tessa looked at him in disbelief. “What’s my name?” “Don’t you know it?
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Wo ai ni, Tessa,” he whispered. “Wo bu xiang shi qu ni.” She knew, without knowing how she knew, what the words meant. I love you. And I don’t want to lose you.
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[...] He tasted like snowflakes and wine, like winter and Will and London.
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He didn't know what books meant to her, that books were symbols of truth and meaning.
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You can keep it a secret.... But secrets have their own weight, and it can be a very heavy one.
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Don't order any of the faerie food, said Jace, looking at her over the top of his menu. It tends to make humans a little crazy. One minute you're munching a faerie plum, the next minute you're running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not, he added hastily, that this has ever happened to me.
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The way Magnus’ breath had sounded, rattling in his chest, before he’d said his father’s name.
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I was the quiet kid in the corner, reading a book. In elementary school, I read so much and so often during class that I was actually forbidden from reading books during school hours by my teachers.
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I'm not a man. I have no male pride for you to trick me with, and I am not interested in single combat. That is entirely a weakness of your sex, not mine. I am a woman. I will use any weapon and all weapons to get what I want.
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I would write light entertainment nonfiction pieces during the day, then come home and work on my fantasy fiction. It was very difficult to get out of the one mindset and into another one.
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I have a feeling you're right, Sherwin.' 'Simon. My name is Simon.
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Because that was what you did with family when you'd been worried about them, you grabbed them and held on to them and told them how much they'd pissed you off, and it was okay, because no matter how angry you got, they still belonged to you.
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Jace suggested that the cast of Gilligan's Island could go do something anatomically unlikely with themselves.
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The boy was standing alone as though the broken glass all around him were a shining sea and he were an island.
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I wish I could hate you, he said. His voice was light, his mouth curved in an unconcerned half smile, his eyes sick with misery. I want to hate you. I try to hate you. It would be so much easier if I did hate you. Sometimes I do hate you and then I see you and I.
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So you're a Shadowhunter,' Nate said. 'De Quincey told me that you lot were monsters.' 'Was that before or after he tried to eat you?' Will inquired.
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