Fallen Angels Quotes

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You're the first Shadowhunter I've ever met." β€œThat’s too bad,” said Jace, β€œsince all the others you meet from now on will be a terrible letdown.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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I don't go out with strangers," I said. "Good thing I do. I'll pick you up at five.
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Becca Fitzpatrick (Hush, Hush (Hush, Hush, #1))
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Hearts are breakable," Isabelle said. "And I think even when you heal, you're never what you were before".
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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You know, some people think Shadowhunters are just myths. Like mummies and genies." Kyle grinned at Jace. "Can you grant wishes?" "That depends," he said. "Do you wish to be punched in the face?
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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No. That's Clary; shes's my best friend." Simon pocketed his phone. "And she has a boyfriend. Like, really, really, really has a boyfriend. The nuclear bomb of boyfriends. Trust me on this one.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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So what was that all about?" "I think," Jace said, "that she asked if she could touch my mango." "She said that?" Jace shrugged. "Yeah, then she gave me her number.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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It’s fascinating. You know all these words, and they’re all English, but when you string them together into sentences, they just don’t make any sense.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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But I watch my brothers give their hearts away and I think, Don’t you know better? Hearts are breakable. And I think even when you heal, you’re never what you were before.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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I suppose you've always been amazing at this stuff."- Clary "I was born amazing." - Jace
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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Or maybe it's just that beautiful things are so easily broken by the world.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel...
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Frankenstein)
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What's the point in wasting a perfectly good brick wall when you have someone to throw against it, that's what I always say.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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You're just worried they'll hire a male instructor and he'll be hotter than you." Jace's eyebrows went up. "Hotter than me?" "It could happen," Clary said, "You know, theoretically." "Theoretically the planet could suddenly crack in half, leaving me on one side and you on the other, forever and tragically parted, but I'm not worried about that either. Some things," Jace said, with his customary crooked smile, "are just too unlikely to dwell upon.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle. "It means that love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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Let’s be honest, Nora. You’ve got it bad for me." His eyes held a lot of depth. "And I’ve got it bad for you.
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Becca Fitzpatrick (Hush, Hush (Hush, Hush, #1))
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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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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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Still I pictured having you for fifty, sixty more years. I thought I might be ready then to let you go. But it's you, and I realize now that I won't be anymore ready to lose you then than I am right now. Which is not at all.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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Alec keeps sending me annoying photos. Lots of captions like Wish you were here, except not really.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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You left me. You made a pet out of me, and then you left me. If love were food, I would have starved on the bones you gave me.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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He looks," Simon had once said to Isabelle, "like he's thinking about something deep and meaningful, but if you ask him what it is, he'll punch you in the face.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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Dudes," He said, "Do not follow other dudes to the bathroom." Isabelle sighed. "Latent homosexual panic will do you in every time
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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But if I hadn't fallen, I wouldn't have met you.
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Becca Fitzpatrick (Hush, Hush (Hush, Hush, #1))
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White for Shadowhunters is the color of funerals," Luke explained. β€œ But for mundanes, Jace, it’ s the color of weddings. Brides wear white to symbolize their purity.” β€œI thought Jocelyn said her dress wasn’t white,” Simon said. β€œWell,” said Jace, β€œI suppose that ship has sailed.” Luke choked on his coffee.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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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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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Frankenstein)
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Is this the part where you tell me you're secretly in love with me? Vampire mojo strikes again.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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You don't get to decide," she said, "where I go, or when." "I know." His voice was ragged. "I've always known that about you. I don't know why I had to fall in love with someone who's more stubborn than I am.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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He grinned when I didn't protest, and lowered his mouth toward mine. The first touch was just that - a touch. A teasing, tempting softness. I licked my lips and Patch's grin deepened. "More?" he asked. I curled my hands into his hair, pulling him closer. "More.
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Becca Fitzpatrick (Hush, Hush (Hush, Hush, #1))
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I'm not good," he said, piercing me with eyes that absorbed all light but reflected none, "but I was worse.
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Becca Fitzpatrick (Hush, Hush (Hush, Hush, #1))
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The more you try to crush your true nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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You could give me the past,β€œ he said a little sadly. β€œBut Alec is my future.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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They think they're better than everyone else." "No," said Jace. "I think I'm better than everyone else. An opinion that has been backed up with ample evidence." Kyle looked at Simon. "Does he always talk like this?" "Yes.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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I love you Clary. More then I ever-- God. More than i probably should. You know that, don't you?
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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Oh, good. You're starting to talk about yourself in the third person. That's not a sign of impending megalomania or anything.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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If I'd wanted you dead five minutes ago, you'd have died five minutes ago.
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Becca Fitzpatrick (Hush, Hush (Hush, Hush, #1))
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We can buy you one of those books they have for little kids 'Timmy Has Two Dads'. Except I don't think they have one called 'Timmy Has Two Dads and One of Them Was Evil'. That part you're just going to have to work through on your own.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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Don't bother her, don't try to talk to her, don't even look at her, or I'll fold you in half so many times you'll look like a tiny little origami werewolf.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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Medium clever,” Simon acknowledged. β€œLike a cross between George Clooney in Ocean’s Eleven and those MythBusters guys, but, you know, better-looking.” β€œI’m always so glad I have no idea what you’re vacantly chattering about,” said Jace. β€œIt fills me with a sense of peace and well-being.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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Magnus sighed. "Alexander, I've been alive for hundreds of years. I've been with men, been with women - with faeries and warlocks and vampires, and even a djinn or two." He looked sideways at Maryse, who looked mildly horrified. "Too much information?
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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I guess you're coming as my date now." Simon shoved the phone into his pocket. "I'm secure enough in my masculinity to accept that," said Jordan. "We better get you something nice to wear, though," he called as Simon headed back into his room. "I want you to look pretty.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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Love is a contradiction.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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I hung my fingertips on his waistband, tugging him closer. Patch buried his face in the curve of my shoulder, his hands flexing over my back. He gave a low groan. "I love you," he murmured into my hair. "I'm happier right now than I ever remember being.
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Becca Fitzpatrick (Crescendo (Hush, Hush, #2))
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He's my neophyte Downworlder to mock and boss around, not yours.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?
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Jack Kerouac (The Dharma Bums)
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Aren’t they supposed to be hiring someone else to train me full-time anyway?” β€œYes,” he said, getting up and pulling her to her feet along with him,β€œ and I’m worried that if you get into the habit of making out with your instructors, you’ll wind up making out with him, too.” β€œ Don’t be sexist. They could find me a female instructor.” β€œIn that case you have my permission to make out with her, as long as I can watch.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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You and your name-dropping. 'I knew Michael'. 'I knew Sammael'. 'The angel Gabriel did my hair'. It's like I'm with the Band with biblical figures.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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Good organization,” said Magnus. β€œI 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. β€œDid you sleep with him, too?” Magnus’s cat eyes widened. β€œAlexander!
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Cassandra Clare
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And I would do it again. I love you, Jace Wayland-Herondale-Lightwood-whatever you want to call yourself. I don't care. I love you and I will always love you, and pretending it could be any other ways is just a waste of time.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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Jace perched on the windowsill and looked down at him. "You really don't get this bodyguard thing, do you?" "I didn't even think you liked me all that much," said Simon. "Is this one of those keep-your-friends-close-and-your-enemies-closer things?" "I thought it was keep your friends close so you have someone to drive the car when you sneak over to your enemy's house a night and throw up in his mailbox." "I'm pretty sure that's not it
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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Simon looked from one of them to the other, and shook his head. β€œ When did you two get so buddy-buddy? Last night it was all, β€˜I’m the most elite warrior!’ β€˜ No, I’m the most elite warrior!’ And today you’re playing Halo and giving each other props for good ideas.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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After a moment, Wrath turned to John. "This is Lassiter, the fallen angel. One of the last times he was here on earth, there was a plague in central Europe-" "Okay, that was so not my fault-" "-which wiped out two-thirds of the human population." "I'd like to remind you that you don't like humans." "They smell bad when they're dead." "All you mortal types do.
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J.R. Ward (Lover Enshrined (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #6))
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Why are you always trying to get yourself killed?" "It's my job." "It's a hazard of your job. At least for most Shadowhunters. For you it seems to be the purpose.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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If we're going to the Silent City, you might want to get dressed. I mean, I appreciate the bra-and-panties look, but I don't know if the Silent Brothers will. There are only a few of the left, and I don't want them to die of excitement.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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She pulled away. "That doesn't make any sense." "Neither does this," he said, "but I don't care. I'm sick of trying to pretend I can live without you. Don't you understand that? Can't you see it's killing me?
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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Here's a hot tip: Most girls don't like being stalked.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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You look lousy,' he said. Jace blinked. 'Seems an odd time to start an insult contest, but if you insist, I could probably think up something good.' 'No I mean it. You don't look good.' 'This is from a guy ho has all the sex appeal of a penguin. Look, I realize you may be jealous that the good Lord didn't deal you the same chiseled hand he dealt me, but that's no reason to-' 'I am not trying to insult you.' Simon snapped.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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What's this?" "That's a mango." Simon stared at Jace. Sometimes it really is like Shadowhunters were from an alien planet. "I don't think I've seen one of those that wasn't already cut up," Jace mused. "I like mangoes." Simon grabbed the mango and tossed it into the cart. "Great. What else do you like?" Jace pondered for a moment. "Tomato soup," he said finally. "Tomato soup? You want tomato soup and a mango for dinner?" Jace shrugged. "I don't really care about food.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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You are not trivial.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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I tended to be more a romantic than a realist, and chose blind faith over cold logic.
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Becca Fitzpatrick (Crescendo (Hush, Hush, #2))
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I think she just asked if she could touch my mango.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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Patch stood over me, and a drop of rain slid from his hair, landing like ice on my collarbone. I felt it slide along my skin, disappearing beneath the neckline of my shirt. His eyes followed the raindrop, and I began to quiver on the inside.
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Becca Fitzpatrick (Crescendo (Hush, Hush, #2))
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You promise." "I swear on the angel. The hell with that. I swear on us." "Why us?" "Because there isn't anything I believe in more.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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Thank you,” Simon said. β€œIt’s a joke, Isabelle. He’s the Count. He likes counting. You know. β€˜What did the Count eat today, children? One chocolate chip cookie, two chocolate chip cookies, three chocolate chip cookies . . .’” There was a rush of cold air as the door of the restaurant opened, letting in another customer. Isabelle shivered and reached for her black silk scarf. β€œIt’s not realistic.” β€œWhat would you prefer? β€˜What did the Count eat today, children? One helpless villager, two helpless villagers, three helpless villagers . . .
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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Do you even really know how vampires are made?' 'Well, when a mommy vampire and a daddy vampire love each other very much...
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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And now," Eric yelled into his mircophone, "we're going to sing a new song-one we just wrote. This one's for my girlfriend. We've been going out for three weeks, and, damn, our love is true. We're gonna be together forever, baby. This one's called 'Bang You Like a Drum.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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Love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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He's got the whole bad-boy-in-need-of-redemption thing going on, but the catch is, most bad boys don't want redemption. They like being bad. They like the power they get from striking fear and panic into the hearts of mothers everywhere
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Becca Fitzpatrick (Crescendo (Hush, Hush, #2))
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As long as everyone's wearing their own pants." "I see I have come in on a fascinating moment in the conversation.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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I feel a sense of responsibility," said Jordan. "And where is this feeling located? In your pants, perhaps?
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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Do you have a lot of other profound thoughts like that? Blood is blood? A toaster is a toaster? A Gelatinous Cube is a Gelatinous Cube?
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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I'm always so glad I have no idea what you're vacantly chatting about," said Jace. It fills me with a sense of peace and well-being.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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I can keep a perfectly good eye on Simon, thank you. He's my neophyte Downworlder to mock and boss around, not yours.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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When angels go bad they are worse than anyone else. Remember Lucifer used to be an angel.
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Neil Gaiman (Neverwhere (London Below, #1))
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Do you want to go back to Vienna?” he said. Alec didn’t answer, just stared into space. β€œOr we could go somewhere else,” said Magnus. β€œAnywhere you want. Thailand, South Carolina, Brazil, Peru – Oh, wait, no, I’m banned from Peru. I’d forgotten about that. It’s a long story, but amusing if you want to hear it.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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One of the things he'd always loved about Clary was how easily caught up in her imagination she was, how easily she could wall herself away in illusory worlds of curses and princes and destiny and magic.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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Clary, Despite everything, I can't bear the thought of this ring being lost forever, any more then I can bear the thought of leaving you forever. And though I have no choice about the one, at least I can choose about the other. I'm leaving you our family ring because you have as much right to it as I do. I'm writing this watching the sun come up. You're asleep, dreams moving behind your restless eyelids. I wish I knew what you were thinking. I wish I could slip into your head and see the world the way you do. I wish I could see myself the way you do. But maybe I dont want to see that. Maybe it would make me feel even more than I already do that I'm perpetuating some kind of Great Lie on you, and I couldn't stand that. I belong to you. You could do anything you wanted with me and I would let you. You could ask anything of me and I'd break myself trying to make you happy. 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. All night I've watched you sleeping, watched the moonlight come and go, casting its shadows across your face in black and white. I've never seen anything more beautiful. I think of the life we could have had if things were different, a life where this night is not a singular event, separate from everything else that's real, but every night. But things aren't different, and I can't look at you without feeling like I've tricked you into loving me. The truth no one is willing to say out loud is that no one has a shot against Valentine but me. I can get close to him like no one else can. I can pretend I want to join him and he'll believe me, up until that last moment where I end it all, one way or another. I have something of Sebastian's; I can track him to where my father's hiding, and that's what I'm going to do. So I lied to you last night. I said I just wanted one night with you. But I want every night with you. And that's why I have to slip out of your window now, like a coward. Because if I had to tell you this to your face, I couldn't make myself go. I don't blame you if you hate me, I wish you would. As long as I can still dream, I will dream of you. _Jace
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Cassandra Clare (City of Glass (The Mortal Instruments, #3))
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Simon stepped between them. β€œI’m not going to let you fight with each other.” β€œAnd what are you going to do about it if . . . Oh.” Jace's gaze trailed up to Simon’s forehead, and he grinned reluctantly. β€œ So basically you’re threatening to turn me into something you can sprinkle on popcorn if I don’t do what you say?
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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I was following you.' - Jace 'Is this the part where you tell me you're secretly in love with me? Vampire mojo strikes again.' - Simon
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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What was that?" Jace said. "Sorry, I think I fell asleep for a moment. Do, continue with whatever mesmerizing thing you were saying.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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You'd think the Angel would have been foresighted enough to give us a birth-control rune, but no dice.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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Is this one of those keep-your-friends-close-and-your-enemies-closer things?" "I though it was keep your friends close so you have someone to drive the car when you sneak over to your enemy's house at night and throw up in his mailbox.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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Everything that happens to you matters to me.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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And second, keep in mind that you are a weapon. In theory, when you're done with training, you should be able to kick a hole in a wall or knock out a moose with a single punch." "I would never hit a moose," said Clary. "They're endangered.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love and dared to imagine a new way of livingβ€”one without massacres and torn throats and bonfires of the fallen, without revenants or bastard armies or children ripped from their mothers’ arms to take their turn in the killing and dying. Once, the lovers lay entwined in the moon’s secret temple and dreamed of a world that was a like a jewel-box without a jewelβ€”a paradise waiting for them to find it and fill it with their happiness. This was not that world.
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Laini Taylor (Days of Blood & Starlight (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #2))
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I think everything that happened in Idris-Valentine, Max, Hodge, even Sebastian-I kept shoving it all down, trying to forget, but it's catching up with me. I... I'll get help. I'll get better. I promise." "You promise." "I swear on the Angel." He ducked his head down, kissed her cheek. "The hell with that. I swear on us.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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But Magnus, he thought. You never told me. Never warned me it would be like this, that I would wake up one day and realize that I was going somewhere you couldn't follow. That we are essentially not the same. There's no "till death do us apart" for those who never die.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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What were you dreaming about?" "You." He twisted a lock of her hair around his finger. "I always dream about you." "Oh, yeah? Because I thought you were having a nightmare." He tipped his head back to look at her. "Sometimes I dream you're gone," he said. "I keep wondering when you'll figure out how much better you could do and leave me.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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the [coat] rack above his head like a javelin. On the other side of the door was Jace. He blinked. "Is that a coatrack?" Jordan slammed the coatrack down on the ground and sighed. "If you'd been a vampire, this would have been a lot more useful." "Yes," said Jace. "Or, you know, just someone with a lot of coats.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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And then there was you. You changed everything I believed in. You know that line from Dante that I quoted to you in the park? 'L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle'?" Her lips curled a little at the sides as she looked up at him. "I still don't speak Italian." "It's a bit of the very last verse from Paradiso - Dante's Paradise. 'My will and my desire were turned by love, the love that moves the sun and the other stars.' Dante was trying to explain faith, I think, as an overpowering love, and maybe it's blasphemous, but that's how I think of the way I love you. You came into my life and suddenly I had one truth to hold on to - that I loved you, and you loved me.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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She smiled. Her skin looked whiter than he recalled, and dark spidery veins were beginning to show beneath its surface. Her hair was still the color of spun silver and her eyes were still green as a cat’s. She was still beautiful. Looking at her, he was in London again. He saw the gaslight and smelled the smoke and dirt and horses, the metallic tang of fog, the flowers in Kew Gardens. He saw a boy with black hair and blue eyes like Alec’s, heard violin music like the sound of silver water. He saw a girl with long brown hair and a serious face. In a world where everything went away from him eventually, she was one of the few remaining constants. And then there was Camille.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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Isabelle and Jace had left the topic of dead Shadowhunters behind and had moved on to something Jace apparently found even more horrifying__Isabelle's date with Simon. "I can't believe he took you to an actual restaurant." Jace was on his feet now, putting away the floor mats and training gear while Isabelle leaned against the wall and played with her new gloves. "I assumed his idea of a date would be making you watch him play World of Warcraft with his nerd friends." "I," Clary pointed out, "am one of his nerd friends, thank you.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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You are the most dangerous kind of female the world can ever know. You carry the seeds for your own destruction and the destruction of everyone who loves you. And a great many will love you for your beautiful face for your seductive body; but you will fail them all because you will believe they all fail you first. You are an idealist of the worst kind - the romantic idealist. Born to destroy and self destruct.
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V.C. Andrews (Fallen Hearts (Casteel, #3))
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I don't understand what you're still doing here." She blinked and nodded miserably, then began to turn away. "No!" He pulled her back. "Don't leave. It's just that you've neverβ€”we've never... gotten this far." He closed his eyes. "Will you say it again?" he asked, almost shyly. "Will you tell me ... what I am?" "You're an angel," she repeated slowly, surprised to see Daniel close his eyes and moan in pleasure, almost as if they were kissing. "I'm in love with an angel.
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Lauren Kate (Fallen (Fallen, #1))
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But they love each other," Clary said, appalled. "Isn't that what love means? That you're supposed to be there for the other person to turn to, no matter what?" Luke looked toward the river, at the dark water moving slowly under the light of the autumn moon. "Sometimes, Clary," he said, "love just isn't enough.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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Why did you ask me to live with you? Werewolves hate vampires.” β€œI don’t,” said Kyle.” I’m not too fond of their kind, though.” He jabbed a finger at Jace. β€œThey think they’re better than everyone else.” β€œNo,” said Jace. β€œI think I’m better than everyone else. An opinion that has been backed up with ample evidence.” Kyle looked at Simon. β€œDoes he always talk like this?” β€œYes.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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I watched him pitch the ball at a table neatly lined with six bowling pins, my stomach giving a little flutter when his T-shirt crept up in the back, revealing a stripe of skin. I knew from experience that every inch of him was hard, defined muscle. His back was smooth and perfect too, the scars from when he’d fallen once again replaced with wingsβ€”wings I, and every other human, couldn’t see. β€œFive dollars says you can’t do it again,” I said, coming up behind him. Patch looked back and grinned. β€œI don’t want your money, Angel.” β€œHey now, kids, let’s keep this discussion PG-rated,” Rixon said. β€œAll three remaining pins,” I challenged Patch. β€œWhat kind of prize are we talking about?” he asked. β€œBloody hell,” Rixon said. β€œCan’t this wait until you’re alone?” Patch gave me a secret smile, then shifted his weight back, cradling the ball into his chest. He dropped his right shoulder, brought his arm around, and sent the ball flying forward as hard as he could. There was a loud crack! and the remaining three pins scattered off the table. β€œAye, now you’re in trouble, lass,” Rixon shouted at me over the commotion caused by a pocket of onlookers, who were clapping and whistling for Patch. Patch leaned back against the booth and arched his eyebrows at me. The gesture said it all: Pay up. β€œYou got lucky,” I said. β€œI’m about to get lucky.
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Becca Fitzpatrick (Crescendo (Hush, Hush, #2))
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The alley and the music all fell away, and there was nothing but her and the rain and Jace, his hands on her. . . He made a noise of surprise, low in his throat, and dug his fingers into the thin fabric of her tights. Not unexpectedly, they ripped, and his wet fingers were suddenly on the bare skin of her legs. Not to be outdone, Clary slid her hands under the hem of his soaked shirt, and let her fingers explore what was underneath: the tight, hot skin over his ribs, the ridges of his abdomen, the scars on his back. This was uncharted territory for her, but it seemed to be driving him crazy: he was moaning softly against her mouth, kissing her harder and harder, as if it would never be enough, not quite enough β€”
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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She closed her eyes and jumped. For a moment she felt herself hang suspended, free of everything. Then gravity took over, and she plunged toward the floor. Instinctively she pulled her arms and legs in, keeping her eyes squeezed shut. The cord pulled taut and she rebounded, flying back up before falling again. As her velocity slowed, she opened her eyes and found herself dangling at the end of the cord, about five feet above Jace. He was grinning. 'Nice', he said. 'As graceful as a falling snowflake.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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So it's true what they say about warlocks, then?" Alec gave him a very unpleasant look. "What's true?" "Alexander," said Magnus coldly, and Clary met Simon's eyes across the table. Hers were wide, green, and full of an expression that said Uh-oh. "You can't be rude to everyone who talks to me." Alec made a wide, sweeping gesture. "And why not? Cramping your style, am I? I mean, maybe you were hoping to flirt with werewolf boy here. He's pretty attractive, if you like the messy-haired, broad-shouldered, chiseled-good-looks type." "Hey, now," said Jordan mildly. Magnus put his head in his hands. "Or there are plenty of pretty girls here, since apparently your taste goes both ways, Is there anything you aren't into?" "Mermaids," said Magnus into his fingers. "They always smell like seaweed." "It's not funny," Alec said savagely, and kicking back his chair, he got up from the table and stalked off into the crowd.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))