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While this is all very amusing, the kiss that will free the girl is the kiss that she most desires,” she said. “Only that and nothing more.”Jace’s hea...more

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We need to talk. All of us About what we're going to do now.""I was going to watch Project Runway.

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I was even a little glad that if it wasn’t going to be me she wanted, it was going to be someone who really deserved her.

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I may not believe in sin,” he said, “but I do feel guilt. We Shadowhunters live by a code, and that code isn’t flexible. Honor, fault, penance, those ...more

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Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.

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It's not gray," Clary felt compelled to point out. "It's green.""If there was such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood," said...more

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What's this?" he demanded, looking from Clary to his companions, as if they might know what she was doing there."It's a girl," Jace said,recovering hi...more

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Demons," drawled the blond boy, tracing the word on the air with his finger. "Religiously defined as hell's denizens, the servants of Satan, but under...more

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And next time you're planning to injure yourself to get me attention, just remember that a little sweet talk works wonders.

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Sed lex dura lex," said Jace automatically. "The Law is hard, but it is the Law.

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You really want to know what else it was my mom said about you?" he asked.She shook her head.He didn't seem to notice. "She said you'd break my heart,...more

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I wish you'd stop desperately trying to get my attention like this," he said. "It's become embarrassing.""Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginativ...more

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Once there was a boy,” said Jace.Clary interrupted immediately. “A Shadowhunter boy?”“Of course.” For a moment a bleak amusement colored his voice. Th...more

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I love you, Clary," he said without looking at her. He was staring out into the church, at the row of lighted candles, their fold reflected in his eye...more

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Everything that happens to you matters to me.