“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
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Cassandra Clare
Cassandra Clare was born overseas and spent her early years traveling around the world with her family and several trunks of fantasy books. Cassandra worked for several years as an entertainment journalist for the Hollywood Reporter before turning her attention to fiction. She is the author of City of Bones, the first book in the Mortal Instruments trilogy and a New York Times bestseller. Cassandra lives with her fiance and their two cats in Massachusetts.
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“And now I’m looking at you,” he said, “and you’re asking me if I still want you, as if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything e...”
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“It means 'Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of our Enemies Since 1234'.”
“Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.”
“Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”
“The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”
“We live and breathe words. .... It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how...”
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“I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass.”
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“It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.”
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“Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.”
“People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.”
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“Just because you call an electric eel a rubber duck doesn't make it a rubber duck, does it? And God help the poor bastard who decides they want to take a bath with the duckie. (Jace Wayland)”
“There's plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it.”
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“Mom. I have something to tell you. I’m undead. Now, I know you may have some preconceived notions about the undead. I know you may not be comfortable with the idea of me being undead. But I’...”
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“Usually I'm remarkably good natured. Try me on a day that doesn't end in y.”
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“No, I'm just a very naughty boy. I do all sorts of bad things. I kick kittens. I make rude gestures at nuns.”
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“Ah,” said a voice from the doorway, “having your annual ‘everyone thinks Will is a lunatic’ meeting, are you? “It’s biannual,” said Jem. “And no, this is not that meeting.”
“If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?”
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“It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.”
“The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me.”