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You're pining," said Jace.
Alec shrugged. "Look who's talking. 'oh I love her. Oh, she's my sister. Oh why, why, why—
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Cassandra Clare (City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments, #6))
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So I'm your first ever Shadowhunter, huh?" Alec said when they separated at last.
"You're my first so many things, Alec Lightwood.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments, #6))
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Take my hands,” Alec said. “And take my strength too. Whatever of it you can use to— to keep yourself going.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Ashes (The Mortal Instruments, #2))
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Where's Magnus?" he said. AS he looked toward the kitchen, Clary saw a bruise on his jaw, below his ear, about the size of a thumbprint.
"Alec!" Magnus came skidding into the living room and blew a kiss to his boyfriend across the room. Having discarded his slippers, he was barefoot now. His cat's eyes shone as he looked at Alec.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Lost Souls (The Mortal Instruments, #5))
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Magnus reached for Alec, but instead of rising to his feet, he pulled Alec against him, his hand sliding up Alec’s back to knot in his hair. Magnus pulled Alec down and against him, and kissed him,hard and awkward and determined, and Alec froze for a moment and then abandoned himself to it, to kissing Magnus, something he’d thought he’d never get to do again. Alec ran his hands up Magnus’s
shoulders to the sides of his neck and cupped his hands there, holding Magnus in place while he kissed him thoroughly breathless.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments, #6))
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Guys don't let other guys keep calling other guys. Okay that came out wrong.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments, #6))
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As of yesterday, my son became engaged to be married to his partner, Magnus Bane—
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Cassandra Clare (City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments, #6))
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If you're texting Magnus to say 'I think ur kewl,' I'm going to kill you.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Ashes (The Mortal Instruments, #2))
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Isabelle snorted. "All the boys are gay. In this truck, anyway. Well, not you , Simon."
"You noticed." said Simon.
"I think of myself as a freewheeling bisexual," added Magnus.
"Please never say those words in front of my parents," said Alec. "Especially my father.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Lost Souls (The Mortal Instruments, #5))
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So I’m your first ever Shadowhunter, huh?" Alec said when they separated at last.
"You’re my first so many things, Alec Lightwood,
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Cassandra Clare (City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments, #6))
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Hold on to me," Alec said, and Magnus gave him the sort of smile that made Alec feel like someone had taken an apple corer to his heart and tried to dig out the center.
"I always do, Alexander," he said. "I always do.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments, #6))
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He knew Alec enough by now to know the conflicting impulses that warred in him. He was conscientious, the kind of person who believed that the others around him were so much more important than he was, who already believed he was letting everybody down. And he was honest, the kind of person that was naturally open about all he felt and wanted. Alec's virtues had made a trap for him; these two good qualities had collided painfully. He felt he could not be honest without disappointing everyone he loved. It was a hideous conundrum for him. It was as if the world had been designed to make him unhappy.
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Cassandra Clare (What to Buy the Shadowhunter Who Has Everything (The Bane Chronicles, #8))
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Sometimes it comes down to a choice," Magnus said. "Between saving one person and saving the whole world. I've seen it happen, and I'm selfish enough to want the person who loves me to choose me. But Nephilim wil always choose the world. I look at Alec and I feel like Lucifer in Paradise Lost. 'Abashed the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is.' He meant it in the classical sense. 'Awful' as in inspiring awe. And awe is well and good, but it's poison to love. Love has to be between equals."
"He's just a boy," said Luke. "Alec--he's not perfect. And you're not fallen."
"We're all fallen," said Magnus, and he wrapped himself up in his chains and was silent.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments, #6))
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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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Oh, yes.” Magnus seemed to have perked up. “Are you the one with the blue eyes?”
“He means Alec,” Clary said helpfully.
“No. My eyes are usually described as golden,” Jace told the intercom. “And luminous.”
“Oh, you’re that one.” Magnus sounded disappointed.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1))
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What welcome?” Magnus asked. “I’d say it was a pleasure to meet you, but it wasn’t. Not that you aren’t all fairly charming, and as for you—” He dropped a glittery wink at Alec, who looked astounded. “Call me?”
Alec blushed and stuttered and probably would have stood there all night if Jace hadn’t grasped his elbow and hauled him toward the door, Isabelle at their heels.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1))
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He touched her cheek. It was colder than the floor had been. “You could give me the past,” he said a little sadly. “But Alec is my future.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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So what do we do?" Alec whispered.
Magnus shrugged and smiled suddenly; with his messy black hair and the gleam in his gold-green eyes, he looked like a mischievous teenager. "what everyone else does," he replied. "Like you said. Hope.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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It’s not your fault,” Alec was saying. He sounded weary, as if he’d been through this sort of thing with his sister before. Clary wondered how many boyfriends she’d turned into rats by accident. “But it ought to teach you not to go to so many Downworld parties,” he added. “They’re always more trouble than they’re worth.”
Isabelle sniffed loudly. “If anything had happened to him, I—I don’t know what I would have done.”
“Probably whatever it is you did before,” said Alec in a bored voice. “It’s not like you knew him all that well.”
“That doesn’t mean that I don’t—”
“What? Love him?” Alec scoffed, raising his voice. “You need to know someone to love them.”
“But that’s not all it is.” Isabelle sounded almost sad. “Didn’t you have any fun at the party, Alec?”
“No.”
“I thought you might like Magnus. He’s nice, isn’t he?”
“Nice?” Alec looked at her as if she were insane. “Kittens are nice. Warlocks are—” He hesitated. “Not,” he finished, lamely.
“I thought you might hit it off.” Isabelle’s eye makeup glittered as bright as tears as she glanced over at her brother. “Get to be friends.”
“I have friends,” Alec said, and looked over his shoulder, almost as if he couldn’t help it, at Jace.
But Jace, his golden head down, lost in thought, didn’t notice.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1))
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You are my first so many things, Alec Lightwood
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Cassandra Clare (City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments, #6))
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Pensava a Simon, che stava andando in una casa che non sentiva più sua, alla disperazione della voce di Jace mentre le diceva Vorrei odiarti, e a Magnus, che non gli aveva detto la verità, ossia che Alec voleva tenerlo all'oscuro della loro relazione perché era ancora innamorato di lui.
Pensò alla soddisfazione che avrebbe procurato a Magnus pronunciare quelle parole ad alta voce, confessare la verità, e al fatto che non le aveva pronunciate, lasciando che Alec continuasse a mentire e a fingere, perché era quello che Alec voleva, e Magnus teneva abbastanza a lui da concederglielo.
Forse, tutto sommato, quello che aveva detto la Regina della Corte Seelie era vero: l'amore rende bugiardi
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Cassandra Clare (City of Ashes (The Mortal Instruments, #2))
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I didn't call you because I'm tired of you only wanting me around when you need something. I'm tired of watching you be in love with someone else - someone, incidentally, who will never love you back. Not the way I do.'
'You love me?'
'You stupid Nephilim,' Magnus said patiently, 'Why else am I here? Why else would I have spent the past few weeks patching up all your moronic friends every time they got hurt? And getting you out of every ridiculous situation you found yourself in? Not to mention helping you win a battle against Valentine. And all completely free of charge!
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Cassandra Clare (City of Glass (The Mortal Instruments, #3))
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She thought of the satisfaction it would have brought Magnus to say the words out loud, to acknowledge what the truth was, and the fact that he hadn't said them - had let Alec go on lying and pretending - because that was what Alec wanted, and Magnus cared about Alec enough to give him that. Maybe it was true what the Seelie Queen had said, after all: Love made you a liar.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Ashes (The Mortal Instruments, #2))
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You have something on your neck,' he observed. Alec's hand flew to his throat. 'What?' 'Looks like a bite mark,' said Jace. 'What have you been doing all night, anyway?' 'Nothing.' Beet red, his hand still clamped to his neck, Alec started down the corridor. Jace followed him. 'I went walking in the park. Tried to clear my head.' 'And ran into a vampire?' 'What? No! I fell.' 'On your neck?' Alec made a noise, and Jace decided the issue was better dropped.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Ashes (The Mortal Instruments, #2))
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Despite my staggering good looks, you actually don't like me that way. And if you're blowing off Magnus, it's not because of me. It's because you're too scared to tell anyone who you really love.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Glass (The Mortal Instruments, #3))
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Magnus asked. 'I'd say it was a pleasure to meet you, but it wasn't. Not that you aren't all fairly charming, and as for you-' He dropped a glittery wink at Alec, who looked astounded. 'Call me?' Alec blushed and stuttered and probably would have stood there all night if Jace hadn't grasped his elbow and hauled him toward the door
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Cassandra Clare (City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1))
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Alec had his arms around Magnus and was kissing him, full on the mouth. Magnus, who appeared to be in a state of shock, stood frozen. Several groups of people - Shadowhunters and Downworlders alike - were staring and whispering. Glancing to the side, Simon saw the Lightwoods, their eyes wide, gaping at the display. Maryse had her hand over her mouth. Maia looked perplexed. 'Wait a second,' she said. 'Do we all have to do that, too?
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Cassandra Clare (City of Glass (The Mortal Instruments, #3))
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You could give me the past, he said a little sadly, But Alec is my future.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Lost Souls (The Mortal Instruments, #5))
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It smells like heartbreak in here.' said Jace.
'That's the Chinese food.' Magnus threw himself onto the sofa and stretched out his long legs.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments, #6))
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Do you remember, the night of the battle on Valentine's ship, when I needed some of your strength?'
'Do you need it again now?' Alec said. 'Because you can have it.'
'I always need your strength, Alec,' Magnus said, and closed his eyes as their intertwined fingers began to shine, as if between them they held the light of a star.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Lost Souls (The Mortal Instruments, #5))
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Alec,' Magnus said. He put a hand on his boyfriend's shoulder; Alec was standing still, staring angrily at the floor. 'Are you okay?'
Alec looked at him. 'Who are you again?'
Magnus gave a little gasp; he looked - for the first time since Simon could remember - actually unnerved. It lasted only a moment, but it was there. 'Alexander,' he said.
'Too soon to joke about the happy memory thing, I take it,' Alec said.
'You think?' Magnus's voice soared.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Lost Souls (The Mortal Instruments, #5))
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I've lived a long time,' Magnus said. 'So many years, and no, it doesn't feel like enough. I won't lie and say it does. I want to live on - partly because of you, Alec. I have never wanted to live so much as I have these past few months, with you.'
Alec looked stricken. 'We'll die together,' he said. 'Let me stay at least, with you.'
'You have to go back. You have to go back to the world.'
'I don't want the world. I want you,' Alec said, and Magnus closed his eyes, as if the words almost hurt.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments, #6))
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I want to share my life with you, and that means today, and the future, and all of my past, if you want it. If you want me.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments, #6))