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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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Cassandra Clare
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: July 31
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Film Producer
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Judith Rumelt
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I wouldn't change it, Simon said. I wouldn't give up loving you. Not for anything. You know what Raphael told me? That I didn't know how to be a good vampire, that vampires accept that they're dead. But as long as I remember what it was like to love you, I'll always feel like I'm alive.
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One must look at the next step on the path ahead, rather than the mountain in the distance, or one would never reach one's goal.
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Will bounded up onto one of the ladders and yanked a book off the shelf. I'll find you something else to read. Catch. He had let it fall without looking and Tessa had to dart forward to seize it before it hit the floor. - Clockwork Angel
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I want what you want. Whenever you want it.
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The demon bared its greenish fangs. This is my true form. An ugly surprise for you, I suppose. I daresay it's an improvement, said Will. You weren't much to look at before, and at least the horns are dramatic.
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Sometimes minor characters are based on people I know, on friends of mine. But I'm not writing a thinly veiled version of my own life.
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I have heard sometimes that men who lose an arm of a leg still feel that pain in those limbs, though they are gone,' said Will. 'It is like that sometimes. I can feel Jem with me, though he is gone, and it is like I am missing a part of myself.
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I have a high pain threshold. In fact, it's more of a large and tastfully decorated foyer than a threshold. But I do get easily bored
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I have a fetish for damsels in distress.” “Don’t be sexist.” “Not at all. My services are also available to gentlemen in distress. It’s an equal opportunity fetish.
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Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.
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I can't tell them what to do! Why not? the other girl demanded. Honestly, Clary, if you don't start utilizing a bit of your natural feminine superiority, I just don't know what I'll do with you.
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Clary- How to Come Out to Your Parents, she read out loud. LUKE. Don't be ridiculous. Simon's not gay, he's a vampire.
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Years later Magnus would return to London and Camille Belcourt's side, and find it not all that he had dreamed. Years later another desperate Herondale boy with blue, blue eyes would come to his door, shaking with the cold of the rain and his own wretchedness, and this one Magnus would be able to help.
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Not everything Jace did was insane and suicidal, she reminded herself. It just seemed that way. -Clary, pg.46-
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You know, there's a reason we can remember, [Catarina] said more softly. That's much easier when your life has an expiration date. It may be more important for us.
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Perhaps he's in love with Agatha, she said. I hope not. I intend to marry Agatha myself. She may be a thousand years old, but she makes an incomparable jam tart. Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.
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He'd woken up the next day in the city hospital with Magnus Bane staring down at him with an odd expression--it could have been deep concern or merely curiosity, it was hard to tell with Magnus.
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I do not understand how you humans can walk in shoes that are that tall.” “Its my motto,” said Isabelle, with a sultry smile. “Nothing less than seven inches.
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Have you fallen in love with the wrong person yet?' Jace said, Unfortunately, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remains myself. ...At least, she said, you don't have to worry about rejection, Jace Wayland. Not necessarily. I turn myself down occasionally, just to keep it interesting.
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Books are for reading, not for turning oneself into livestock.
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