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“You are the only thing I have that is neither duty nor obligation, the only thing I chose for myself. The only thing I want. ”
― Ironside
― Ironside
“Taking no chances means wasting your dreams..”
― Crank
― Crank
“Love means holding on to someone just as hard as you can because if you don't, one blink and they might disappear...forever.”
― Impulse
― Impulse
“You see, cuckoos are parasites. They lay their eggs in other birds' nests. When the egg hatches, the baby cuckoo pushes the other baby birds out of the nest. The poor parent birds work themselves to death trying to find enough food to feed the enormous cuckoo child who has murdered their babies and taken their places."
"Enormous?" said Jace. "Did you just call me fat?"
"It was an analogy."
"I am not fat.”
― City of Ashes
"Enormous?" said Jace. "Did you just call me fat?"
"It was an analogy."
"I am not fat.”
― City of Ashes
“She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair.”
― Ironside
― Ironside
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