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You're not going," he said as soon as she'd finished. "If I have to tie you up and sit on you until this insane whim of yours passes, you are not going to Idris." - Jace
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Biting's excellent. It's like kissing - only there is a winner.
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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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Idris: Are all people like this?
The Doctor: Like what?
Idris: So much bigger on the inside.
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The Doctor: Sorry, do you have a name?
Idris: Seven hundred years and finally he asks.
The Doctor: But what do I call you?
Idris: I think you call me... Sexy?
The Doctor: [embarrassed] Only when we're alone.
Idris: We are alone.
The Doctor: Oh. Come on then, Sexy.
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We work through this together, remember? No shutting me out. No epic sulks.β
βI was figuring I could sulk for Idris in the next Olympics,β Jace saidβ¦
βYou and Alec could go for pair sulking,β said Clary with a smile. βYouβd get the gold.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments, #6))
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I am with you. I'm not going anywhere."
"Is there anything special you want to see? Paris? Budapest? The Leaning Tower of Pisa?"
Only if it falls on Sebastian's head, she thought. "Can we travel to Idris? I mean, I guess, can the apartment travel there?"
"It can't get past the wards." His hand traced a path down her cheek. "You know,I really missed you."
"You mean you haven't been going on romantic dates with Sebastian while you've been away from me?"
"I tried", Jace said, "but no matter how liquored up you get him , he just won't put out.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Lost Souls (The Mortal Instruments, #5))
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If I have to tie you up and sit on you until this insane whim of yours passes, you are not going to Idris." (Jace Wayland)
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Cassandra Clare (City of Glass (The Mortal Instruments, #3))
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It is the message, not the man, which is important to the Sufis.
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Idries Shah (The Sufis)
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Right time, right place, right people equals success.
Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.
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Idries Shah (Reflections)
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It wouldn't be my move," Jace agreed. " First the candy and flowers, then the apology letters, THEN the ravenous demon hordes. In that order."
"He might have sent her candy and flowers," Isabelle said. "We don't know."
"Isabelle," said Hodge patiently, "this is the man who rained down destruction on Idris the like of which it had never seen,who set shadowhunter against Downworlder and made the streets of the Glass City run with blood."
"That's sort of hot," Isabella argued, " that evil thing.
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Real generosity is anonymous to the extent that a man should be prepared even to be considered ungenerous rather than explain it to others.
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Clary grinned at Luke. βSo youβre not moving to Idris, I take it?β
βNah,β he said. He looked as happy as sheβd ever seen him. βThe pizza here is terrible.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Glass (The Mortal Instruments, #3))
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Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.
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Idries Shah
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Did you know we were leaving for Idris?" "Catarina told me she'd been summoned to make a portal. I guessed," Magnus said wryly. "I was a little surprised you hadn't called or texted to tell me you were going away."
"You never answer my calls or texts," said Alec.
"That hasn't stopped you before."
"Everyone gives up eventually," Alec said. "Besides, Jace broke my phone."
Magnus huffed a laughter. "Oh, Alexander."
"What?" alec asked, honestly puzzled.
"you're just--You're so--I really want to kiss you," Magnus said abruptly, and then shook his head. "See this is why I haven't been willing to see you.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments, #6))
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Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
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Idries Shah (Reflections)
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You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.
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Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.
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Three Things
Three things cannot be retrieved:
The arrow once sped from the bow
The word spoken in haste
The missed opportunity.
(Ali the Lion, Caliph of Islam, son-in-law of Mohammed the Prophet),
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Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.
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The Doctor: Hello, I've come to see the Lord Mayor.
Idris Hopper: Have you got an appointment?
The Doctor: No, just an old friend passing by, bit of a surprise. Can't wait to see her face!
Idris Hopper: Well, she's just having a cup of tea.
The Doctor: Just go in there and tell her "the Doctor" would like to see her.
Idris Hopper: "The Doctor" who?
The Doctor: Just "The Doctor". Tell her exactly that, "The Doctor".
Idris Hopper: Hang on a tic.
[Idris goes inside. There is the sound of a teacup smashing and Idris returns.]
Idris Hopper: The Lord Mayor says "thank you f-for popping by." She'd love to have a chat, but, um, she's up to her eyes in paperwork. Perhaps you would like to make an appointment for next week...
The Doctor: [happily] She's climbing out the window, isn't she?
Idris Hopper: Yes, she is.
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But the person who stepped out of the front door was tall and thin, with short, spiky dark hair. he was wearing a gold mesh vest and a pair of silk pajama pants. He regarded Clary with mild interest, puffing gently on a fantastically large pipe as he did so. Though he looked nothing at all like a Viking, he was instantly and totally familiar.
Magnus Bane
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The love a parent had for a child, there is nothing else like it. No other love so consuming. No father-not even Valentine-would sacrifice his son for a hunk of metal, no matter how powerful.β (The Inquisitor)
βYou donβt know my father. Heβll laugh in your face and offer you some money to mail my body back to Idris.β (Jace)
βDonβt be absurd-β
βYouβre right,β Jace said. βCome to think of it, heβll probably make you pay the shipping charges yourself.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Ashes (The Mortal Instruments, #2))
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Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?
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Idries Shah (Reflections)
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The ordinary, utterly mundane reason behind the massacre makes it somehow more terrible, and far more depressing. The word 'senseless' springs to mind, and Idris thwarts it. It's what people always say. A senseless act of violence. A senseless murder. As if you could commit sensible murder.
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Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.
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Must have been quite the culture shock, going there.β
βYes it was.β Idris doesnβt say that the real culture shock has been in coming back.
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To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them.
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You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.
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Why can't I go to Idris with you, then?
Because it's not safe for you there
O and it's safe for me here? I've been nearly killed almost a dozen times in the past month.
That's because Valentine has been concentrating on the two Mortal Instruments that were here. He's going to shift his focus to Idris now. We all know it--
We're hardly as certain of anything as all that. And the Clave wants to meet Clarissa. You know that, Jace.
The Clave can screw itself.
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Q: What is a fundamental mistake of man's?
A: To think that he is alive, when he has merely fallen asleep in life's waiting-room.
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The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.
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Knowledge is something which you can use.
Belief is something which uses you.
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Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?
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Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare. But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.
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Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal.
Interesting people can find something interesting in all things.
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Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.
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Sayings of the Prophet
Trust: Trust in God β but tie your camel first.
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A motto of the human race: Let me do as I like, and give me approval as well.
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When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.
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The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love.
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The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
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If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.
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One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.
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Idries Shah (Sufi Thought and Action: An Anthology of Important Papers)
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Go forth and light the lights of war
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If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!
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Good. Show me a man who thinks that he knows what 'good' is, and I will probably be able to show you a horror of a person. Show me a person who really knows what 'good' is, and I will show you that he almost never uses the word.
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A moment later, Helen had returned; she was walking slowly now, and carefully, her hand on the back of a thin boy with a mop of wavy brown hair. He couldnβt have been older than twelve, and Clary recognized him immediately. Helen, her hand firmly clamped around the wrist of a younger boy whose hands were covered with blue wax. He must have been playing with the tapers in the huge candelabras that decorated the sides of the nave. He looked about twelve, with an impish grin and the same wavy, bitter-chocolate hair as his sister.
Jules, Helen had called him. Her little brother.
The impish grin was gone now. He looked tired and dirty and frightened. Skinny wrists stuck out of the cuffs of a white mourning jacket whose sleeves were too long for him. In his arms he was carrying a little boy, probably not more than two years old, with the same wavy brown hair that he had; it seemed to be a family trait. The rest of his family wore the same borrowed mourning clothes: following Julian was a brunette girl about ten, her hand firmly clasped in the hold of a boy the same age: the boy had a sheet of tangled black hair that nearly obscured his face. Fraternal twins, Clary guessed. After them came a girl who might have been eight or nine, her face round and very pale between brown braids.
The misery on their faces cut at Claryβs heart. She thought of her power with runes, wishing that she could create one that would soften the blow of loss. Mourning runes existed, but only to honor the dead, in the same way that love runes existed, like wedding rings, to symbolize the bond of love. You couldnβt make someone love you with a rune, and you couldnβt assuage grief with it, either. So much magic, Clary thought, and nothing to mend a broken heart.
βJulian Blackthorn,β said Jia Penhallow, and her voice was gentle. βStep forward, please.β
Julian swallowed and handed the little boy he was holding over to his sister. He stepped forward, his eyes darting around the room. He was clearly scouring the crowd for someone. His shoulders had just begun to slump when another figure darted out onto the stage. A girl, also about twelve, with a tangle of blond hair that hung down around her shoulders: she wore jeans and a t-shirt that didnβt quite fit, and her head was down, as if she couldnβt bear so many people looking at her. It was clear that she didnβt want to be there β on the stage or perhaps even in Idris β but the moment he saw her, Julian seemed to relax. The terrified look vanished from his expression as she moved to stand next to him, her face ducked down and away from the crowd.
βJulian,β said Jia, in the same gentle voice, βwould you do something for us? Would you take up the Mortal Sword?
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Cassandra Clare (City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments, #6))
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Idris had been green and gold and russet in the autumn, when Clary had first been there. It had a stark grandeur in the winter: the mountains rose in the distance, capped white with snow, and the trees along the side of the road that led back to Alicante from the lake were stripped bare, their leafless branches making lace-like patterns against the bright sky.
Sometimes Jace would slow the horse to point out the manor houses of the richer Shadowhunter families, hidden from the road when the trees were full but revealed now. She felt his shoulders tense as they passed one that nearly melded with the forest around it: it had clearly been burned and rebuilt. Some of the stones still bore the black marks of smoke and fire. βThe Blackthorn manor,β he said. βWhich means that around this bend in the road is β¦β He paused as Wayfarer summited a small hill, and reined him in so they could look down to where the road split in two. One direction led back toward Alicante β Clary could see the demon towers in the distance β while the other curled down toward a large building of mellow golden stone, surrounded by a low wall. β β¦ the Herondale manor,β Jace finished.
The wind picked up; icy, it ruffled Jaceβs hair. Clary had her hood up, but he was bare-headed and bare-handed, having said he hated wearing gloves when horseback riding. He liked to feel the reins in his hands. βDid you want to go and look at it?β she asked.
His breath came out in a white cloud. βIβm not sure.
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