It means 'Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of our Enemies Since 1234'.
Cassandra ClareIt's love, not the Battle of Thermopylae. You don't have to treat everything like it's a last stand.
Cassandra ClareBut they love each other. Isn't that what love means? That you're supposed to be there for the other person to turn to, no matter what?
Cassandra ClareDo not make the mistake of believing that he does not love you because he plays at not caring.
Cassandra ClareI have a fetish for damsels in distress.โ โDonโt be sexist.โ โNot at all. My services are also available to gentlemen in distress. Itโs an equal opportunity fetish.
Cassandra ClareIf you love someone, you're not supposed to want them to come back. Better a peaceful sleep in the earth than the life of a zombie--not really dead but not really alive, either.
Cassandra ClareAnd maybe it would have bitten you in half," said Will. "What you are describing, the transformation into a demon, is the last stage of the pox." "Will!" Charlotte threw up her hands. "Why didn't you say so?" "You know, the books on demon pox are in the library," Will said with an injured tone. "I wasn't preventing anyone from reading them." "Yes, but if Benedict was going to turn into an enormous serpent, you'd think you could at least have mentioned it," said Charlotte. "As a matter of general interest.
Cassandra ClareHe held her close enough to kiss, close enough to whisper the most important secrets in the world, and he spoke to her as he would have wanted some good angel to speak to his family, to his own shivering young soul, long ago and in a land far away.
Cassandra ClareJem drew back from her, looking dazed. "By the Angel," he said. "Perhaps we do need a chaperon.
Cassandra ClareI'm not unhappy," he said. "Only people with no purpose are unhappy. I've got a purpose.
Cassandra ClareYou love each other โ anyone can see that, looking at you โ that kind of love that can burn down the world or raise it up in glory.
Cassandra ClareI would have given it up--all of it up--to be married to you for a day. A day that would never have come. You are a reminder--a reminder of everything I am losting. The Life I will not have.
Cassandra ClareIf there was an arrow speeding toward Will, I would be bound by oath to step in front of it.' 'Handy, that,' said Will.
Cassandra ClareAnd 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 ClareYou told us to leave you in the desert, because you planned to start a new life as cactus," Catarina said, her voice flat. "Then you conjured up tiny needles and threw them at us. With pinpoint accuracy.
Cassandra ClareI want you to say dreadfully mad, funny things and make up songs and be--' The Will I fell in love with, she almost said. "And be Will," she finished instead. "Or I shall hit you with my umbrella." *** "You would make a very ugly woman." "I would not. I would be stunning." Tessa laughed. โThere,โ she said. โThere is Will. Isnโt that better? Donโt you think so?โ โI donโt know,โ Will said, eyeing her. โIโm afraid to answer that. Iโve heard that when I speak, it makes American women wish to strike me with umbrellas.
Cassandra ClareThe moment the door closed behind him, Tessa was in Will's arms, her hands locked about his neck. "Oh, by the Angel," she said. "That was mortifying." Will slid his hands into her hair and was kissing her, kissing her eyelids and her cheeks and then her mouth, quickly but with fervor and concentration, as if nothing could be more important. "Listen to you," he said. "You said 'by the angel.' Like a Shadowhunter." He kissed the side of her mouth. "I love you. God, I love you. I waited so long to say it.
Cassandra ClareDid you just kiss me?" Will inquired. Magnus made a slip-second decision. "No." "I thought-" "On occasion the aftereffects of the painkilling spells can result in hallucinations of the most bizarre sort." "Oh," Will said. "How peculiar.
Cassandra ClareForever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable, Brother Zachariah to Clary Fray
Cassandra ClareAnd Jessamine-Jessamine was gazing at her in abject horror, like someone who has seen a vision of their own ghost. For a moment Tessa felt a stab of guilt. It lasted only a moment, though. Slowly Jessamine lowered her hand from her mouth, her face still very pale. "Goodness, my nose is enormous," she exclaimed. "Why didn't anyone tell me?
Cassandra ClareHOUSE RULES [at the Praetor Lupus Headquarters] No shape-shifting in the hallways. No howling. No silver. Clothing must be worn at all times. ALL TIMES. No fighting. No biting. Mark all your food before you put it in the communal refrigerator.
Cassandra ClareI didn't know," he said. "I didn't know you needed me." Her voice shook. "I always need you
Cassandra ClareJem--Jem is all the better part of myself. I would not expect you to understand. I owe him this." "Then what am I?" Cecily asked. Will exhaled, too exasperated to check himself. "You are my weakness." "And Tessa is your heart," she said, not angrily, but thoughtfully. "Not a fool, as I told you," she added at his startled expression. I know that you love her.
Cassandra ClareWeakness and corruption isn't in the world," Clary snapped. "It's in people. And it always will be. The world just needs good people to balance it out. And you're planning to kill them all.
Cassandra ClareWhen I went to stay with Iโm, he asked me for something of my fathers to make the tracking easier. I gave him the Morgenstern ring. He said heโd let me know if he senses Valentine anywhere in the city, but so far he hasnโt.โ โMaybe he just wanted your ring,โ Clary said. โHe sure wears lot of jewelry.
Cassandra ClareI don't care what you think. You're not my brother," Clary said. "You're a murderer." "I really don't see how those things cancel each other out," said Sebastian.
Cassandra ClareDamnit.' Isabelle, standing in the mouth of the alley, her wet black hair like a cloak around her shoulders, kicked a trash can out of her way and glowered. 'Oh, for goodness's sake,' she said. 'I can't believe you two. Why? What's wrong with bedrooms? And pivacy?
Cassandra ClareJace laughed, that soft rich sound Clary loved so much. "I'm warning you, that jacket is sexy. The Institute could go up in sexy, sexy flames.
Cassandra ClareWill: "Nice place to live, isn't it? Let's hope they left something behind other than filth. Forwarding addresses, a few severed limbs, a prostitute or two ..." Jem: "Indeed. Perhaps, if we're fortunate, we can still catch syphilis." "Or demon pox," Will suggested cheerfully, trying the door under the stairs.
Cassandra ClareI donโt like keeping her in the dark,โ Jace said. โWeโll tell her in a week. What difference does a week make?โ Jace gave him a look. โTwo weeks ago you were dead.โ โWell, I wasnโt suggesting two weeks,โ said Sebastian. โThat would be insane.
Cassandra ClareStrangely, what pierced his heart and mind most sharply was not the memory of her lips under his at the ball, but the way she had leaned into his neck, as if she trusted him utterly. He would have given everything he had in the world and everything he would ever have, just to lie beside her in the narrow infirmary bed and hold her while she slept. Pulling away from her had been like pulling his own skin off, but he'd had to do it.
Cassandra ClareHe said there are thousands of Shadowhunters, but great love comes once in a lifetime if one is lucky, and one would be a fool to let it go.
Cassandra ClareMy shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health." - City of Bones (said by Jace Wayland)
Cassandra ClareAt the moment, he is in shock," said Magnus. "He has believed one thing for five years, and now he has realized that all this time he has been looking at the world through a faulty mechanism - that all the things he sacrificed in the name of what he thought was good and noble have been a waste, and that he has only hurt what he he loved." "Good God," said Woolsey. "Are you quite sure you've helped him?
Cassandra ClareBut-Jace what are you doing?' 'Finishing my shower. And if youโve made me run through all the hot water, Iโll be very annoyed.
Cassandra ClareStill I pictured having you for fifty, sixty more years. I thought I might be ready then to let you go. But it's you, and I realize now that I won't be anymore ready to lose you then than I am right now. Which is not at all.
Cassandra ClareHe's not in a very good mood," said Luke, pausing in front of a closed door. "I shut him up in Freaky Pete's office after he nearly killed half my pack with his bare hands. He wouldn't talk to me, so"โLuke shruggedโ"I thought of you." He looked from Clary's baffled face to Simon's. "What?" "I can't believe he came here," Clary said. "I can't believe you know someone named Freaky Pete," said Simon. "I know a lot of people," said Luke. "Not that Freaky Pete is strictly people, but I'm hardly one to talk.
Cassandra ClareHis beauty did not blaze like Will's did in fierce colors and repressed fire, but it had its own muted perfection, the loveliness of snow falling against a silver gray sky.
Cassandra Clareโ Turned you gay?โ She sounded incredulous. โ Alec, you didnโ t tell me gay?โ She sounded incredulous. โ Alec, you didnโ t tell me that.โ โ I hope you told him you were bitten by a gay spider,โ said Simon.
Cassandra ClareGreen-eyed monsters,โ said Magnus, and grinned. He deposited Chairman Meow on the ground, and the cat moved over to Alec, and rubbed against his leg. โThe Chairman likes you.โ โIs that good?โ โI never date anyone my cat doesnโt like,โ Magnus said easily, and stood up. โSo letโs say Friday night?โ A great wave of relief came over Alec. โReally? You want to go out with me?โ Magnus shook his head. โYou have to stop playing hard to get, Alexander. It makes things difficult.โ He grinned.
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