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Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know of, and use them to embellish and define characters.

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Cassandra Clare
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: July 31
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Film Producer
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Teheran
Judith Rumelt
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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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There must always be a first, said Jem. It is not easy to be first, and it is not always rewarding, but it is important.
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I love reading epic fantasies and big fat books and so I really wanted to write one. I think you always write what you want to read.
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You always find the right quote, or the right thing to say to make me believe you love me.
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Love makes liars of us all.
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How can you not understand? He pointed at her books. You read novels. Obviously, I'm here to rescue you. Don't I look like Sir Galahad? He raised his arms dramatically. My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure---
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So you're trying to make her happy despite the fact that the reason she's unhappy in the first place is you, said Simon, not very kindly. That seems contradictory, doesn't it? Love is a contradiction, said Jace.
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Jace knew he was being cruel, and he barely cared. Hurting people he loved was almost as good as hurting himself when he was in this kind of mood.
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Why, oh why, had Jace picked a fight with a pack of wolves? What had possessed him? Then again, it was Jace. He'd pick a fight with a Mack truck if the urge took him. -Clary, pg.40-
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Were you thinking about eating me?” Will inquired. “No!” “No one would blame you,” said Jem. “He’s very annoying.
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“ Turned you gay?” She sounded incredulous. “ Alec, you didn’ t tell me gay?” She sounded incredulous. “ Alec, you didn’ t tell me that.” “ I hope you told him you were bitten by a gay spider,” said Simon.
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Meliorn looked impassive. Mundane humans are not permitted in the Court. I wish someone had mentioned that earlier, said Simon, to no one in particular. I take it I'm just supposed to wait out here until vines start growing on me? Meliorn considered. That might offer significant amusement.
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What kind of guardian are you? Shouldn't you have gone to the bathroom with him? Isabelle demanded. Jordan looked horrified. Dudes, he said, do not follow other dudes to the bathroom.
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He was a vampire now. He was supposed to have eternity. But what he had was days.
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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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Well I'd certainly hate to interrupt your pleasant night stroll with my sudden death.
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It would hardly benefit me to hold anything back unnecessarily, when I know what I'm asking. For you to find a needle in--God, not even a haystack. A needle in a tower full of other needles.
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We’re Nephilim. Every one of our life’s passages has some mystical component — our births, our deaths, our, marriages, everything has a ceremony and a rune. There is one as well if you wish to become someone’s parabatai. It’s no small commitment.
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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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She turned to look at Sebastian, lying on the bed. He was shirtless, and even in the dim light the old whip weals across his back were visible. She had always been fascinated by Shadowhunters but had never thought she would find one whose personality she could stand for more than five minutes, until Sebastian.
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