If you donโt go after Luke,โ Clary said, enunciating very clearly, โI, personally, will kill you.โ For a moment Jocelyn looked astonished. Then she smiled. โWell,โ she said, โif you put it like that.
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?
Cassandra ClareSomething in him was broken, and through that break spilled a blind cruelty, a need to hurt and to push away
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