I screwed her over. I didn't want to see her screwed over by someone else.
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Every time you rip the bandages off, you just open the wound up again. Every time he sees you, it's like tearing off the bandages.
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You couldn’t make someone love you with a rune, and you couldn’t assuage grief with it either. So much magic, Clary thought, and nothing to mend a bro...
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Magnus did not take such suffering lightly, but even mortals did not die of broken hearts. No matter how cruel Grace had been, he told himself, James ...
