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If I had not been a Shadowhunter, I would have had a future on the stage. I have no doubt I would have been greeted with acclaim.

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Cassandra Clare
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: July 31
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Film Producer
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Teheran
Judith Rumelt
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I think you'll find that one would be self-defeating. Jace said lightly shoving his feet into his boots. We are bound, he and I. Cut him and I bleed.
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If I was harsh with you, it was because I cannot bear to see you treat yourself as if you are worth nothing. Whatever part you might act to the contrary, I see you as you really are, my blood brother. Not just better than you pretend to be, but better than most people could hope to be.
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It is hard to think of something as a gift when you have been tormented and imprisoned for it.
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[Jem] 'It will help you sleep.' 'All I’ve been doing is sleeping!' [Tessa] 'And very amusing it is to watch, said Jem. 'Did you know you twitch your nose when you sleep, like a rabbit?' 'I do not,' she said, with a whispered laugh. 'You do,' he said. 'Fortunately, I like rabbits.
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Sometimes when you cannot decide what to do, you pretend to be a character in a book, because it is easier to decide what they would do-Cassandra Clare
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The witchlight made his skin paler, his eyes more intently blue. They were the color of the water in the North Atlantic, where the ice drifted on its blue-black surface like the snow clinging to the dark glass pane of a window.
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That was what humans did: They left on another messages through time, pressed between pages or carved into rock. Like reaching out a hand through time, and trusting in a phantom hoped-for hand to catch yours. Humans did not last forever. They could only hope what they made would endure.
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I tell so many lies, sweetheart, he said. which one specifically?
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I don't want tea, said Clary, with muffled force. I want to find my mother. And then I want to find out who took her in the first place, and I want to kill them. Unfortunately, said Hodge, we're all out of bitter revenge at the moment, so it's either tea or nothing.
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She's alive, Thomas said, not opening his eyes. What? Will was caught off guard. The one you come back for. Her. Tessa. She's with Sophie.
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They landed at Simon's feet. Take your clothes and go! Isabelle shouted.
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It's your gift, to see the beauty and the horror in ordinary things. It doesn't make you crazy, just different.
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You are just jealous, Magnus remarked calmly. Because you do not have the soul of a true artiste like myself. Oh, I am positively green with envy, Ragnor snapped. Come now, Ragnor. That's not fair, said Magnus. You know I love it when you make jokes about your complexion.
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That's right, he said. I created a a bunch of Forsaken Warriors, had them attack the Institute and kill Madeleine and nearly kill the rest of us, just so that I could keep Clary from at home. And lo and behold, my diabolical plan is working.
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Theres no such thing as vampire mojo,said Jace,rather eeirly echoing Clarys earlier comment.And I was following Clary,but then she got into a cab,and I cant follow a cab.So I doubled back and followed you instead.Mostly for something to do You were following Clary?Simon echoed.Heres a hot tip : Most girls dont like being stalked
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Yes, she doesn't really look like either of us, does she? Perhaps she's a girl who's fallen madly in love with me and persists in following me wherever I go. My talent is shape-shifting, Will, not acting, said Tessa, and at that Jem laughed out loud.
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Her throat ached: adoration, heartbreak, in equal measure. “Kiss me,” she said. “Please.
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Clary felt suddenly annoyed. When the self-congratulatory part of the evening is over, maybe we could get back to saving my best friend from being exsanguinated to death? Exsanguinated, said Jace, impressed. That's a big word. And you're a big- Tsk tsk, he interupted. No swearing in church.
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You know what the worst thing I can imagine is? Simon had said. Not trusting someone I love.
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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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