And now Iโm looking at you,โ he said, โand youโre asking me if I still want you, as if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has. I never dared give much of myself to anyone before โ bits of myself to the Lightwoods, to Isabelle and Alec, but it took years to do it โ but, Clary, since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me.
Cassandra ClareSimon grinned. "You've never heard of Dungeons and Dragons?" "I've heard of dungeons," Jace said. "Also dragons. Although they're mostly extinct.
Cassandra ClareFor the first time Valentine glanced down at the body of Brother Jeremiah. "I did kill him, and the rest of the Silent Brothers as well. I had to. They had something I needed." "What? A sense of decency?
Cassandra ClareI'm not unhappy," he said. "Only people with no purpose are unhappy. I've got a purpose.
Cassandra ClareShe 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?
Cassandra ClareIโd do almost anything for you,โ Simon said quietly. โIโd die for you. You know that. But would I kill someone else, someone innocent? What about a lot of innocent lives? What about the whole world? Is it really love to tell someone that if it came down to picking between them and every other life on the planet, youโd pick them? Is thatโI donโt know, is that a moral sort of love at all?
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