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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...more

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As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.

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And she wept as well for the others lost in the Dark War, and she wept for her mother and the loss she had endured, and she wept for Emma and the Blac...more

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We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there i...more

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He remembered Tessa weeping in his arms in Paris, and thinking that he had never known the loss she felt, because he had never loved like she had, and...more

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Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.

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Most of us do things for reasons that are more purely personal. For love, or for hate.

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Whatever you are physically, male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy - all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have ...more

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It was so odd what brought out tenderness in people. It was never what you have expected.

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Tessa: Are all vampires like that? Cold like that?Charlotte: Many of them have been alive a long time. They don't see things the way we do.

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It is as great a thing to love as it is to be loved. Love is not something that can be wasted.

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Their beauty had always seemed to him like the beauty of pressed flowers - lovely, but dead.

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Pulvis et umbra sumus. It's a line from Horace. 'We are dust and shadows'. Appropriate, don't you think?" Will said. "It's not a long life, killing de...more

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She was completely alone in the world. There was no one at all for her. No one in the world who cared whether she lived or died. Sometimes the horror ...more

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It's alright to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.