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My ideas often come from strong mental images. When I'm observing some relatively ordinary thing, I'll think, What if.... and out of that brainstorming a story emerges.

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Cassandra Clare
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: July 31
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Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck.- William Herondale
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He leaned against the door frame, ignoring the kick of adrenaline the sight of her produced. He wondered why, not for the first time. Isabelle used her beauty like she used her whip, but Clary didn't know she was beautiful at all. Maybe that was why.
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Weapons, when they break and are mended, can be stronger at the mended places. Perhaps hearts are the same.
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Patriotic?” Will looked smug. “I’ll tell you what’s patriotic,” he said. “In honor of my birthplace, I’ve the dragon of Wales tattooed on my—
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You might want to lie down, Magnus advised. I find that it helps when the crushing sense of horrible realization sets in.
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Will! Charlotte threw up her hands. Why didn't you say so? You know, the books on demon pox are in the library, Will said with an injured tone. I wasn't preventing anyone from reading them
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Good organization,” said Magnus. “I knew the man who founded it, back in the 1800s. Woolsey Scot. Respectable old werewolf family.” Alec made an ugly sound in the back of his throat. “Did you sleep with him, too?” Magnus’s cat eyes widened. “Alexander!
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Clary closed her eyes. Remembering the way Jace had looked at her the night she'd freed Ithuriel, she couldn't help but imagine the way he'd look at her now if he saw her trying to lie down to die on the sand beside him. He wouldn't be touched, wouldn't think it was a beautiful gesture. He'd be angry at her for giving up. He'd be so--disappointed.
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She felt as if she bled her regret and loneliness from her very pores, and yet she could not shape those feelings into any sentiment she could imagine her parents could bear reading.
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Excuse me, Bane? said Roderick Morgenstern. Are you attending? I'm so sorry, Magnus said politely. Somebody incredibly attractive just came into the room, and I ceased to pay attention to a word you were saying.
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How strange to have the power to literally transform yourself into other people, and yet be so unable to put yourself in their place.
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It was a bit warm. Still. If one could look this fabulous, one had an obligation to. One should wear everything, or one should wear nothing at all.
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You're killing me because you want me to give a message to God for you? Jace shook his head, the point of the blade scraping across his throat. You're crazier than I thought
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Clary stopped dead in her tracks. Simon? Oh, God, said Jace, sounding resigned. And here I'd actually hoped I'd got hold of something interesting. -Clary and Jace pg. 114
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You cannot reduce the situation to worm jokes, Will. This is Gabriel and Gideon’s father we’re discussing.” “We’re not just discussing him we’re chasing him through an ornamental sculpture garden because he’s turned into a worm.
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I can't believe you know someone named Freaky Pete, said Simon. I know alot of people, said Luke. Not that Freaky Pete is strictly people, but I'm hardly one to talk.
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Heroes aren't always the ones who win. They're the ones who lose, sometimes. But they keep fighting, they keep coming back. They don't give up. That's what makes them heroes.
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Hey, said Jace. who was sitting on an overturned speaker, looking at his cellphone, do you want to see a photo of Alec and Magnus in Berlin? Not really, said Simon. Magnus is wearing lederhosen. And yet, still no.
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There is no god, not a god who would create the things I saw
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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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