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Cassandra Clare

" ...As if you have discovered a beach you have been visiting all your life is made not of sand but of diamonds, and they blind you with their beauty...Diamonds might be blinding in their beauty, but they were also the hardest and sharpest gems in the world. They could cut you or grind you down, smash and slice you apart. Malcolm, deranged with love, had not thought of that. But Julian could think of nothing else. "

Cassandra Clare

Love

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" Haven't you ever heard of pornographic gibberish before? "

Cassandra Clare

Funny , Humor

" One must always be careful of books,' said Tessa, 'and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.' 'I'm not sure a book has ever changed me,' Will finished. 'Well, there is one volume that promises to teach one how to turn into an entire flock of sheep-' 'Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry,' said Tessa, determined not to let him run wildly off with the course. 'Of course, why one would want to be and fire flock of sheep is another matter entirely,' Will finished. "

Cassandra Clare

Books , Funny

" Once there was a boy,‚Äù said Jace.Clary interrupted immediately. ‚ÄúA Shadowhunter boy?‚Äù‚ÄúOf course.‚Äù For a moment a bleak amusement colored his voice. Then it was gone. ‚ÄúWhen the boy was six years old, his father gave him a falcon to train. Falcons are raptors ‚Äì killing birds, his father told him, the Shadowhunters of the sky.‚ÄúThe falcon didn‚Äôt like the boy, and the boy didn‚Äôt like it, either. Its sharp beak made him nervous, and its bright eyes always seemed to be watching him. It would slash at him with beak and talons when he came near: For weeks his wrists and hands were always bleeding. He didn‚Äôt know it, but his father had selected a falcon that had lived in the wild for over a year, and thus was nearly impossible to tame. But the boy tried, because his father told him to make the falcon obedient, and he wanted to please his father.‚ÄúHe stayed with the falcon constantly, keeping it awake by talking to it and even playing music to it, because a tired bird was meant to be easier to tame. He learned the equipment: the jesses, the hood, the brail, the leash that bound the bird to his wrist. He was meant to keep the falcon blind, but he couldn‚Äôt bring himself to do it ‚Äì instead he tried to sit where the bird could see him as he touched and stroked its wings, willing it to trust him. Hee fed it from his hand, and at first it would not eat. Later it ate so savagely that its beak cut the skin of his palm. But the boy was glad, because it was progress, and because he wanted the bird to know him, even if the bird had to consume his blood to make that happen.‚ÄúHe began to see that the falcon was beautiful, that its slim wings were built for the speed of flight, that it was strong and swift, fierce and gentle. When it dived to the ground, it moved like likght. When it learned to circle and come to his wrist, he neary shouted with delight Sometimes the bird would hope to his shoulder and put its beak in his hair. He knew his falcon loved him, and when he was certain it was not just tamed but perfectly tamed, he went to his father and showed him what he had done, expecting him to be proud.‚ÄúInstead his father took the bird, now tame and trusting, in his hands and broke its neck. ‚ÄòI told you to make it obedient,‚Äô his father said, and dropped the falcon‚Äôs lifeless body to the ground. ‚ÄòInstead, you taught it to love you. Falcons are not meant to be loving pets: They are fierce and wild, savage and cruel. This bird was not tamed; it was broken.‚Äô‚ÄúLater, when his father left him, the boy cried over his pet, until eventually his father sent a servant to take the body of the bird away and bury it. The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he‚Äôd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed. "

Cassandra Clare

clary , destroyed

" One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us. "

Cassandra Clare

Books

" We live and breathe words. "

Cassandra Clare

Living , Books

" How can you tell? That I like books, I mean.The look on your face when you walked in, somehow I doubted you were that impressed by me. "

Cassandra Clare

Books

" You know that feeling,‚Äù she said, ‚Äúwhen you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel the cold and darkness coming, see the net drawing tight around the characters who live and breathe on the pages. But you are tied to the story as if being dragged behind a carriage and you cannot let go or turn the course aside. "

Cassandra Clare

Books , Reading

" Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck. "

Cassandra Clare

Books

" There were valuable first editions of books in the enormous library, most of them had been scribbled in by some idiot named Will H. "

Cassandra Clare

Books

" I thought... that we could at least talk about books. "

Cassandra Clare

Books

" And what do you like to do, little man?" "I like-books," James had said. While standing in the bookshop, with a parcel of books under his arm. The lady had given him a pitying look. "I read-erm-rather a lot," James went on, dreary master of the obvious. King of the obvious. Emperor of the obvious. "

Cassandra Clare

Books

" You know that feeling when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel the cold and darkness coming, see the net drawing close around the characters who live and breathe on the pages. But you are tied to the story as if being dragged behind a carriage, and you cannot let go or turn the course aside. "

Cassandra Clare

Tragedy

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