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“I just don't see why the past has to matter.”
“I didn't call you because I'm tired of you only wanting me around when you need something. I'm tired of watching you be in love with someone else - someone, incidentally, who will never love you ba...”
“He knew Alec enough by now to know the conflicting impulses that warred in him. He was conscientious, the kind of person who believed that the others around him were so much more important than he ...”
“Magnus remembered a town in Peru whose Quechua name meant quiet place. He recalled even more vividly being obscenely drunk and unhappy over his heartbreak of that time, and the maudlin thoughts tha...”
“Isabelle drifted over, Jace a pace behind her. She was wearing a long black dress with boots and an even longer cutaway coat of soft green velvet, the color of moss. "I can't believe you did it!" s...”
“Alec looked at her and shook his head. "How do you manage never to get mud on your clothes?"Isabelle shrugged philosophically. "I'm pure at heart. It repels the dirt.”
“Wear that scarf," he said, pointing to a blue cashmere scarf hanging on a peg. "It matches your eyes."Alec looked at it. Suddenly he was filled with hate - for the scarf, for Magnus, and most of al...”
“So it's true what they say about warlocks, then?" true?". "You can't be rude to everyone who talks to me."Alec made a wide, sweeping gesture. "And why not? Cramping your style, am I? I mean, maybe ...”
“Alec?" Magnus was staring at him. He had dispatched the remaining Iblis demons, and the square was empty but for the two of them. "Did you just- did you just save my life?" Alec knew he ought to sa...”
“Izzy, are you he began. His eyes flew wide, and he backed up fast enough to smack his head into the wall behind him. What is he doing here?Isabelle tugged her tank top back down and glared at her b...”
“But sleep didn't come. She could hear Jace's soft piano playing through the walls, but that wasn't what was keeping her awake. She was thinking of Simon, leaving for a house that no longer felt lik...”
“Just because you said dragon demons were extinct""I said mostly extinct."Alec jabbed a finger toward him."Mostly extinct," he said, his voice trembling with rage, "is NOTEXTINCT ENOUGH.""I see," sa...”
“Hello? This is Clary Fairchild.Clary? Its me, Emma.Oh, Emma, hi! I havent heard from you in ages. My mom says thanks for the wedding flowers, by the way. She wanted to send a note but Luke whisked ...”
“Take my hands, Alec said. And take my strength too. Whatever of it you can use to to keep yourself going.”
“So it's true what they say about warlocks, ”
“Though Alec had never seen the occupants of the first floor loft, they seemed to be engaged in a tempestuous romance. Once there had been a bunch of someone's belongings strewn all over the landing...”
“You dated a vampire? A girl vampire?" (Simon)"It was a hundred and thirty years ago," (Magnus)"I haven't seen her since." (Magnus)"Why didn't you tell me?" (Alec)"Alexander, I've been alive for hun...”
“I thought you came down right on the side of go directly to jail, do not pass Go, do not collect two hundred dollars.”
“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 that he was afraid that someday he would, and ...”
“Goodness, that stuff rips like paper, she exclaimed, reaching to pull her tank top off. She was halfway through the action when the door opened and Alec walked into the room.Izzy, are you he began....”
