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61 " I know there are monsters on this earth,' said Tessa. 'You cannot tell me otherwise. I have seen them. "
― Cassandra Clare , Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, #1)
62 " He was the one she was doing all this for, but sometimes she missed him so much it felt like she swallowed broken glass. "
63 " For so many years she had wondered what her first kiss would be like - if he would be handsome, if he would love her, if he would be kind. She had never imagined that the kiss would be so brief and desperate and wild. Or that it would taste of holy water. Holy water and blood. "
64 " Looking for an entirely reliable informant is like looking for a chaste mistress. "
65 " He always lived in his head. He never cared about how things were, only how they would be, someday, when he had everything he wanted. When we had everything we wanted. "
66 " He took her by the shoulders and pulled her closer to him, his fingers knotting in the fabric of her dress. Even more than in the attic, she felt caught in the eddy of a powerful wave that threatened to pull her over and under, to crush and break her, to wear her down to softness as the sea might wear down a piece of glass. "
67 " The light that burned twice as bright burned half as long. "
68 " Jem spoke with enormous care; talking to Will about anything personal was like trying not to startle away a wild animal. "
69 " He said there are thousands of Shadowhunters, but great love comes once in a lifetime if one is lucky, and one would be a fool to let it go. "
70 " Henry," said Charlotte, who appeared to have recovered from her shock, "if you set yourself on fire deliberately, I will institute divorce proceedings. Now sit down and eat your supper. And say hello to our guest. "
71 " Unless there was a reason for me to stay. "
72 " Were you thinking about eating me? "
73 " That though he is weak, he can still burn. "
74 " She had never thought about her name much before, but when he said it, it was as if she were hearing it for the first time - the hard T, the caress of the double S, the way it seemed to end on a breath. "
75 " the less you had, the more careful you had to be about everything you did have. "
76 " There's more to someone being lovable than the way they look." "...he told me that the way you can tell if a bug or a snake is poisonous, like, is if it's got really lovely, bright markings. The more the beautiful its skin is, the more deadly it is." "All that pretty face and whatnot just hides how twisted up and rotten he is on the inside. "
77 " He had lost Will Herondale. And he did not know if he could ever get him back. "
78 " Will spread his arms wide. On his knees, grinning like a demon, blood dripping from his mouth, he barely looked human himself. “Come and get me. "
79 " He was wearing a look that she found odd and compelling - that amusement that didn’t seem to pass beyond the surface of his features, as he found everything in the world both infinitely funny and infinitely tragic all at the same time. "
80 " Not really, but after that I think about how I could kill him while he slept if I really wanted to, and then I feel better. "