“Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change -Clary Fray”
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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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“Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change -Clary Fray”
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“If there were such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood.”
“One does no question miracles, or complain that they are no constructed perfectly to one's liking.”
“And when I saw him[my father] lying dead in a pool of his own blood, I knew then that I hadn't stopped believing in God. I'd just stopped believing God cared. There might be a God, Clary, an...”
“Everything changes in my life, and the world stays the same.”
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“Hate is nothing when weighed against survival. (Valentine)”
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“She supposed they were imperfections, those marks, but they didn't feel that way to her; they were a history, cut into his body: the map of a life of endless war.”
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“You couldnt erase everything that caused you pain with recollection.Every memory was valuable; even the bad ones”
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“I've screwed everything up royally. I remember you saying that growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.”
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“she was glad she had been scarred. She said that whoever loved her now would love her true self, and not her pretty face.”
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“It was stupid to hope, she knew. But sometimes hope was all you had.”
“As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?”
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“I have a high pain threshold. In fact, it's more of a large and tastfully decorated foyer than a threshold. But I do get easily bored”
“It’s fascinating. You know all these words, and they’re all English, but when you string them together into sentences, they just don’t make any sense.”
“I don't do what I'm told, but I might do what you want if you ask me nicely.”
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“Going round and around inside a dryer can be fatal, whereas pasta is rarely fatal. Unless Isabelle makes it.”
“Aren’t they supposed to be hiring someone else to train me full-time anyway?” “Yes,” he said, getting up and pulling her to her feet along with him,“ and I’m worried that if you get into the...”
“Also, I'm sleeping with your mom. Just thought you should know.”
“You look lousy,' he said. Jace blinked. 'Seems an odd time to start an insult contest, but if you insist, I could probably think up something good.' 'No I mean it. You don't look good.' 'Thi...”
“Astriola. That IS demon pox. You had evidence that demon pox existed and you didnt mention it to me! Et tu, Brute!' He rolled up the paper and hit Jem over the head with it.”