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What you said was true. we don't live or love in a vacuum. There are people around us who care about us who would be hurt, maybe destroyed if we let ourselves feel what we might want to feel.

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Cassandra Clare
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: July 31
Author
Film Producer
Journalist
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Teheran
Judith Rumelt
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I get the feeling, Alec said, and smiled, she hasn't forgiven me for betraying you, as she sees it. Good girl, said Jace with appreciation. I didn't betray you, idiot. It's the thought that counts.
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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’m really grateful to you for saving us, Maia, and Jace is too, even though he’s so stubborn that he’d rather jam a seraph blade through his eyeball than say so. And don’t you say you hope he does,” she added hastily, seeing the look on the other girl’s face, “because that’s really not helpful.
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Dreams can be dangerous things.
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Oh, God, the lovebirds,” Magnus said, pulling the pillow off his face. “I hate happy couples.
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It's not gray, Clary felt compelled to point out. It's green. If there was such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood, said Jace.
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I don't care who her mother is, Magnus said. You can't see me with out an appointment. Come back later. Next March would be good, March? Sebastian looked horrified. You're right, Magnus said, Too rainy. How about June?
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You point your feet out too much when you walk,” Will went on. He was busy polishing an apple on his shirtfront, and appeared not to notice Tessa glaring at him. “Camille walks delicately. Like a faun in the woods. Not like a duck” “I do not walk like a duck.” “I like ducks,” Jem observed diplomatically. “Especially the ones in Hyde Park.
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Yes, he would have done that for Tessa - died to keep the ones she needed beside her - and so would Jem have done that for him or for Tessa, and so would Tessa, he thought, do that for both of them. It was a near incomprehensible tangle, the three of them, but there was one certainty, and that was that there was no lack of love between them.
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Love did not overcome everything. Love did not always endure. All you had could be taken away, love could be the last thing you had, and then love could be taken too.
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Must I go bound while you go free Must I love a manwho doesn't love me Must I be born with so little art As to love a man who'll break my Heart
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Jem cried out with all his remaining strength. You cannot go where I am going! Nor would I want that for you!
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The measure of love is to love without measure. - attributed to Saint Augustine
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She had never imagined that the kiss would be so brief and desperate and wild. Or that it would taste of holy water. Holy water and blood.
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“He has many things I haven’t got,” said Jace. “Like nearsightedness, bad posture, and an appalling lack of coordination.” - Jace about Simon
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From the first time I saw you, I've belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me. -Jace
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He'd burn the whole world down til he could dig out you of the ashes.
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Isabelle was holding an umbrella. It was clear plastic, decorated with decals of colorful flowers. It was one of the girliest things Simon had ever seen, and he didn’t blame Alec for ducking out from under it and taking his chances with the rain.
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My heart tells me this is the best and greatest feeling I have ever had. But my mind knows the difference between wanting what you can’t have and wanting what you shouldn’t want. And I shouldn’t want you.
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While the Clave disapproves of trespassers, oddly they take an even darker view of beheading and skinning people. They're peculiar that way.
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