And indeed it was, the arrow still protruding from its wet, grayish skin, humping its body along with incredible speed. A flick of its tail caught the edge of a statue, sending it flying into the dry ornamental pool, where it shattered into dust. โBy the Angel, it just crushed Sophocles,โ noted Will. โHas no one respect for the classics these days?
Cassandra ClareGreat,โ Simon said. โMaybe Iโll even make it back before my mother notices Iโm gone. Whatโs the time difference between here and Manhattan?โ โYou have a mother?โ Aline looked amazed.
Cassandra ClareA parabatai. Like he was. And Jace knew, too, what that faded rune meant: a parabatai whose other half was dead. He felt his sympathy leap toward Brother Zachariah, as he imagined himself without Alec, with only that faded rune to remind him where once he had been bonded to someone who knew all the best and worst parts of his soul.
Cassandra ClareYou can keep it a secret.... But secrets have their own weight, and it can be a very heavy one.
Cassandra ClareAnd broken both your hearts? How would that have benefited me? You are as dear to me as another half of my soul, Jem. I could not be happy while you were unhappy. And Tessaโshe loves you. What sort of awful monster would I be, delighting in causing the two people I love the most in the world agony simply that I might have the satisfaction of knowing that if Tessa could not be mine, she could not be anybodyโs?
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