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Take my hands,” Alec said. “And take my strength too. Whatever of it you can use to— to keep yourself going.

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For the devil has no power . . . except in the dark." - Madame Dorothea

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There might not be so much of a difference between the side of Light and the side of Dark as you suppose. After all, without the Dark, there is nothin...more

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Now very much against her will, she thought of the way Jace had looked at her then, the blaze of faith in his eyes, his belief in her. He had always t...more

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Temper us in fire, and we grow stronger. When we suffer, we survive.

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Too much of anything could destroy you, Simon thought. Too much darkness could kill, but too much light could blind.

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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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There was no one at all for her. No one in the world who cared whether she lived or died. Sometimes the horror of that thought threatened to overwhelm...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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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.