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If You don't give readers what they want, they'll be mad at you. If you give them what they do want, they'll be even more mad at you.

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Cassandra Clare
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: July 31
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Film Producer
Journalist
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Judith Rumelt
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Isabelle glanced back at them. They're staring at you. Maybe their master died and they're looking for another vampire to own them. You could have pets. She grinned. Or, Simon said ,maybe they're here for the hash browns.
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I want you to be happy, and him to be happy. And yet when you walk that aisle to meet him and join yourselves forever you will walk an invisible path of the shards of my heart Tessa. I would give over my own life for either of yours.
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As if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has. Since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely.
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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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I fear I must agree, Magnus murmured. He pressed a hand over his heart and his new peacock-blue waistcoast. I strive to find some respect in my heart for you, but alas! It seems an impossible quest.
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Sometimes carrying the burden of an upsetting truth, and hiding it, is actually a gift you give to someone else. You bear that burden, so they don’t have to, in a situation where telling them will change nothing.
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And in some way, Clary thought, he meant it, meant his gratitude. He had long ago lost the ability to distinguish between force and cooperation, between fear and willingness, between love and torture. And with that realization came a rush of numbness—what was the point of hating Valentine for being a monster when he didn’t even know he was one?
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We are responsible for protecting Tessa!
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I always thought that eventually there would be a moment where I realized that I had practiced enough and now I was ready to be a professional writer. Then I befriended a number of successful professional writers and realized that none of them ever felt ready. After that I decided I might as well stop waiting to feel ready and just get started.
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I knew you were crazy, but I didn't realize that you were out of your goddamned mind!!
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Looking for an entirely reliable informant is like looking for a chaste mistress.
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Ragnor looked very regretful about all the choices that had led him to his being in this place and especially in this company
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In a closed urban fantasy, the magical world is secret and no one knows about it. In an open urban fantasy, everyone knows about it. So with a closed fantasy, you have to figure out how the world keeps itself secret, and with an open one, you have to figure out how knowledge of magic has altered the world we know.
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When Jace opened the greenhouse door, the scent hit Clary, soft as the padded blow of a cat's paw.
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Whatever the Clave was discussing, the Council meeting was dragging on brutally late. “But he knows New York. He doesn’t know Alicante—
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How can you not care? Practice, Magnus said, looking back to his book and turning the page.
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If there was an arrow speeding toward Will, I would be bound by oath to step in front of it.' 'Handy, that,' said Will.
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If love is great, then it is worth fighting for.
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Simon: 'You know men. We have delicate egos.' Clary: 'I wouldn't describe Jace's ego as delicate.' Simon: 'No, Jace's is sort of the antiaircraft artillery tank of male egos.
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Come with me. Come with you? To Pandemonium? To the Void? And here I thought that my invitation to summer in New Jersey was the worst I had ever received.
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