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  • #1
    Cassandra Clare
    “Have you fallen in love with the wrong person yet?'
    Jace said, "Unfortunately, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remains myself."
    ..."At least," she said, "you don't have to worry about rejection, Jace Wayland."
    "Not necessarily. I turn myself down occasionally, just to keep it interesting.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

  • #2
    Cassandra Clare
    “Is this the part where you start tearing off strips of your shirt to bind my wounds?"
    "If you wanted me to rip my clothes off, you should have just asked.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

  • #3
    Cassandra Clare
    “Don't touch any of my weapons without my permission."
    "Well, there goes my plan for selling them all on eBay," Clary muttered.
    "Selling them on what?"
    Clary smiled blandly at him. "A mythical place of great magical power.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

  • #4
    Cassandra Clare
    “It means 'Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of our Enemies Since 1234'.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

  • #5
    Cassandra Clare
    “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.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

  • #6
    Cassandra Clare
    “One of the Silent Brothers is here to see you. Hodge sent me to wake you up. Actually he offered to wake you himself, but since it's 5 a.m., I figured you'd be less cranky if you had something nice to look at."
    "Meaning you?"
    "What else?”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

  • #7
    Cassandra Clare
    “You guessed? You must have been pretty sure, considering you could have killed me."
    "I was ninety percent sure."
    "I see," Clary said. There must have been something in her voice, because he turned to look at her. Her hand cracked across his face, a slap that rocked him back on his heels. He put his hands on his cheek, more in surprise than pain.
    "What the hell was that for?"
    "The other ten percent.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

  • #8
    Cassandra Clare
    “Can I help you with something?"
    Clary turned instant traitor against her gender. "Those girls on the other side of the car are staring at you."
    Jace assumed an air of mellow gratification. "Of course they are," he said, "I am stunningly attractive.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

  • #9
    Cassandra Clare
    “Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

  • #10
    Cassandra Clare
    “What's this?" he demanded, looking from Clary to his companions, as if they might know what she was doing there.
    "It's a girl," Jace said,recovering his composure. "Surely you've seen girls before, Alec. Your sister Isabelle is one.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

  • #11
    Cassandra Clare
    “Investigation?" Isabelle laughed. "Now we're detectives? Maybe we should all have code names."
    "Good idea," said Jace. "I shall be Baron Hotschaft Von Hugenstein.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

  • #12
    Cassandra Clare
    “Don't." Clary raised a warning hand. "I'm not really in the mood right now."
    "That's got to be the first time a girl's ever said that to me," Jace mused.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

  • #13
    Cassandra Clare
    “Out of the corner of her eye she thought she saw Jace shoot her a look of white rage - but when she glanced at him, he looked as he always did: easy, confident, slightly bored.
    "In future, Clarissa," he said, "it might be wise to mention that you already have a man in your bed, to avoid such tedious situations."
    "You invited him into bed?" Simon demanded, looking shaken.
    "Ridiculous, isn't it?" said Jace. "We would never have all fit."
    "I didn't invite him into bed," Clary snapped. "We were just kissing."
    "Just kissing?" Jace's tone mocked her with its false hurt. "How swiftly you dismiss our love.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

  • #14
    Cassandra Clare
    “Don't tell me," Jace said, "Simon's turned himself into an ocelot and you want me to do something about it before Isabelle makes him into a stole. Well, you'll have have to wait till tomorrow. I'm out of commission." He pointed at himself - he was wearing blue pajamas with a hole in the sleeve. "Look. Jammies."
    "Jace," Clary said, "this is important."
    "Don't tell me," he said. "You've got a drawing emergency. You need a nude model. Well, I'm not in the mood. You could always ask Hodge," he said as an afterthought. "I hear he'll do anything for a -"
    "JACE!" she interrupted him, her voice rising to a scream. "JUST SHUT UP FOR A SECOND AND LISTEN, WILL YOU?”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

  • #15
    Cassandra Clare
    “The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

  • #16
    Cassandra Clare
    “A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance covers?”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

  • #17
    Holly Black
    “Come home and shout at me. Come home and fight with me. Come home and break my heart, if you must.”
    Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

  • #18
    Holly Black
    “By you, I am forever undone.”
    Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

  • #19
    Holly Black
    “It’s you I love,” he says. “I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn’t have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours.” He walks to the door to the royal chambers, as though to end the conversation. “You probably guessed as much,” he says. “But just in case you didn’t.”
    Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

  • #20
    Holly Black
    “Mock me all you like. Whatever I imagined then, now it is I who would beg and grovel for a kind word from your lips." His eyes are black with desire. "By you, I am forever undone.”
    Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

  • #21
    Holly Black
    “I missed you," I whisper against his skin and feel dizzy with the intimacy of the admission, feel more naked than when he could see every inch of me. "In the mortal world, when I thought you were my enemy, I still missed you."
    "My sweet nemesis, how glad I am that you returned.”
    Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing
    tags: love

  • #22
    Holly Black
    “This is my room,” he points out, affronted. “And that’s my wife.”

    “So you keep telling everyone,” the Bomb says. “But I am going to take out her stitches, and I don’t think you want to watch that.”

    “Oh, I don’t know,” I say. “Maybe he’d like to hear me scream.”

    “I would,” Cardan says, standing. “And perhaps one day I will.”
    Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

  • #23
    Holly Black
    “Jude, you can't really think I don't know it's you. I knew you from the moment you walked into the brugh.”
    Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

  • #24
    Holly Black
    “And yet my heart is buried with you in the strange soil of the mortal world, as it was drowned with you in the cold waters of the undersea.
    It was yours before I could ever admit it, and yours it shall ever remain.”
    Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

  • #25
    Holly Black
    “No, I won’t help you. No, I won’t hear you explain why I should. It really is a magical word: no. You say whatever bullshit you want and I just say no.”
    Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

  • #26
    Holly Black
    “I feel like a constellation of wounds, held together with string and stubbornness.”
    Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

  • #27
    Holly Black
    “I start to speak, but he stops me with a gesture. “And you.” He looks at me, his lips curving in something that’s not quite a smile; it’s more and less than that. “I knew little else, but I always knew you.” And when he kisses me, I feel as though I can finally breathe again.”
    Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

  • #28
    Holly Black
    “Seelie and Unseelie, Wild Folk and Shy Folk, I am glad to have you march under my banner, glad of your loyalty, grateful for your honor.” His gaze goes to me. “To you, I offer honey wine and the hospitality of my table. But to traitors and oath breakers, I offer my queen’s hospitality instead. The hospitality of knives.”
    Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

  • #29
    Holly Black
    “Tell me what I must slay, what I must steal, tell me the riddle I must solve or the hag I must trick. Only tell me the way, and I will do it, no matter the danger, no matter the hardship, no matter the cost.”
    Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

  • #30
    Holly Black
    “I raise a plastic glass. “To family.”
    “And Faerieland,” says Taryn, raising hers.
    “And pizza,” says Oak.
    “And stories,” says Heather.
    “And new beginnings,” says Vivi.
    Cardan smiles, his gaze on me. “And scheming great schemes.”
    To family and Faerieland and pizza and stories and new beginnings and scheming great schemes. I can toast to that.”
    Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing



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