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41 " The choices we make, make us. "
― Cassandra Clare , Lady Midnight (The Dark Artifices, #1)
42 " Everyone’s death means something, "
43 " Cristina looked after Emma, her hand going to the pendant at her own throat. It was silver, in the shape of a circle with a rose inside it. The rose was wrapped around with thorny briars. Words were written in Latin on the back: she didn’t need to look at them to know them. She’d known them all her life. Blessed be the Angel my strength who teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to fight. The rose for Rosales, the words for Raziel, the Angel who had created the Shadowhunters a thousand years ago. Cristina had always thought Emma fought for her parabatai and for revenge, while she fought for family and faith. But maybe it was all the same thing: maybe it was all love, in the end. "
44 " We all find out the people who are supposed to take care of us are human eventually. That they make mistakes. "
45 " He hadn't wanted to leave Emma, but at the same time he'd thought it would help. Like an addict getting away from the source of his addiction. "
46 " The cycle hit the beach and spun out. Emma went into a rolling crouch as she flew free of it, keeping her elbows in, pushing the air hard out of her lungs. She turned her head as she hit the sand, slapping her palms down to roll herself forward, absorbing the impact of the fall through her arms and shoulders, her knees folding up into her chest. The stars wheeled crazily overhead as she spun, sucking in her breath as her body slowed its rolling. She came to a stop on her back, her hair and clothes full of sand and her ears full of the sound of the wildly crashing ocean… "
47 " The Law is annoying, but it is also flexible. "
48 " You belong where you're loved. "
49 " Lex malla, lex nulla. A bad law is no law. "
50 " No one is ever the villain of their own story. "
51 " Malcolm looked warily at her. 'She may be dangerous,' he said to Julian. 'Then again, all women are dangerous. "
52 " It was an odd bit of doggerel. First the flame and then the flood, in the end it's Blackthorn blood. "
53 " He seemed to bring a sense of infinite possibility with him wherever he went. "
54 " Are you going to cut my throat?" Mark asked.I'm going to cur your hair. Hold still," Christina said."As my lady requests. "
55 " The whale without Ahab is just a whale. A whale with no problems. A stress-free whale." - Julian Blackthorn "
56 " It has been many years since I have eaten freely at my choice, fair one, and a plate of strawberries is all that I desire." - Mark Blackthorn "
57 " Yeah,” he said, eyelashes lowering as his gaze traced the movement of her fingers. “It hurt me being away from you. It feels like there’s a hook dug in under my ribs, and there’s something pulling at the other end. Like I’m tethered to you, no matter the distance. "
58 " Why did you pull the arrow out?” she demanded, pulling her sweater over her head. She had a tank top on under it. She patted his chest and side with the sweater, absorbing as much of the blood as she could.Jules’s breath was coming in harsh pants. “Because when someone—shoots you with an arrow—” he gasped, “your immediate response is not—‘Thanks for the arrow, I think I’ll keep it for a while.’”“Good to know your sense of humor is intact. "
59 " Threatening the High Warlock. Better and better. Maybe we should head down to vampire clan headquarters and punch Anselm Nightshade in the face. "
60 " That's not the spirit of the law, Emma. Remember? The Law is hard, but it is the Law.""I thought it was 'the Law is annoying, but it is also flexible. "
