Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.
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The Red Scrolls of Magic
Magnus wondered if he would ever get used to being surprised by Alec Lightwood. He hoped not.
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Ninth House (Alex Stern #1)
“All you children playing with fire, looking surprised when the house burns down.”
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The Night Circus
You’re not destined or chosen, I wish I could tell you that you were if that would make it easier, but it’s not true. You’re in the right place at the right time, and you care enough to do what needs to be done. Sometimes that’s enough.
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The Infernal Devices
“Whatever you are physically,” he said, “male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy—all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. Whatever the color, the shape, the design of the shade that conceals it, the flame inside the lamp remains the same. You are that flame.”
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The Dark Artifices
“I’ll kill him,” Emma muttered. “I’ll kill him while talking the whole time.”
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City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls, and City of Heavenly Fire
“Heroes aren’t always the ones who win,” she said. “They’re the ones who lose, sometimes. But they keep fighting, they keep coming back. They don’t give up. That’s what makes them heroes.”
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Circe
That is one thing gods and mortals share. When we are young, we think ourselves the first to have each feeling in the world.
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City of Bones, City of Ashes, and City of Glass
Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of our Enemies Since 1234.
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City of Girls
People will tell you not to waste your youth having too much fun, but they’re wrong. Youth is an irreplaceable treasure, and the only respectable thing to do with irreplaceable treasure is to waste it. So do the right thing with your youth, Vivian—squander it.
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