Mene mene tekel upsharin,' Jace said with a faint smile. 'You don't recognize it? It's from the Bible, vampire. The old one. That's your book, isn't it?' Just because I'm Jewish doesn't mean I've memorized the Old Testament.' It's the Writing on the Wall. "God hath numbered thy kingdom, and brought it to an end; thou art weighed in the balance and found wanting." It's a portent of doom--it means the end of an empire.
Cassandra ClareIt was like a bad movie except he didnโt actually twirl his mustache.โ -Jace to Maryse about Valentine, pg.122-
Cassandra ClareI need to know you believe me when I say I love you. That is all." "I believe everything you say," Tessa said with a smile, her hands creeping doen from his waist to his weapons belt. Her fingers closed on the hilt of the dagger, and she yanked it from the belt, smiling as he looked down at her in surprise. "After all," she said, "you weren't lying about the tattoo of the dragon of Wales, were you?
Cassandra ClareNo. Absolutely not.โ โSimon,โ she said. โItโs a perfectly fine plan.โ โThe plan where you follow Jace and Sebastian off to some unknown dimensional pocket and we use these rings to communicate so those of us over here in the regular dimension of Earth can track you down? That plan?โ โYes.โ โNo,โ he said. โNo, it isnโt.โ Clary sat back. โYou donโt just get to say no.โ โThis plan involves me! I get to say no! No.โ โSimonโโ Simon patted the seat beside him as if someone were sitting there. โLet me introduce you to my good friend No.
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