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“Oh, good. You're starting to talk about yourself in the third person. That's not a sign of impending megalomania or anything.”
― City of Fallen Angels
― City of Fallen Angels

“Finnik?鈥 I say. 鈥淢aybe some pants?鈥濃℉e looks down at his legs as if noticing them for the first time. Then he whips of his hospital gown, leaving him in just is underwear. 鈥淲hy? Do you find this鈥-he strikes a ridiculously proactive pose-鈥渄istracting?鈥濃↖ can鈥檛 help laughing because it鈥檚 funny, and it鈥檚 extra funny because Boggs looks so uncomfortable, and I鈥檓 happy because Finnik actually sounds like the guy I met at the Quarter Quell.鈥ㄢ淚鈥檓 only human, Odair.鈥 I get in before the elevator doors close. 鈥淪orry,鈥 I say to Boggs.鈥ㄢ淒on鈥檛 be. I thought you鈥 handled that well,鈥 He says. 鈥淏etter than my having to arrest him, anyway.鈥濃
鈥‵ulvia Cardew hustles over an makes a sound of frustration when she sees my clean face. 鈥淎ll that hard work, down the drain. I鈥檓 not blaming you, Katniss. It鈥檚 just that very few people are born with camera-ready faces. Like him.鈥 She snags Gale, who鈥檚 in a conversation with Plutarch, and spins him towards us. 鈥淚sn鈥檛 he handsome?鈥濃℅ale does look stricking in the uniform, I guess. But the question just embarrasses us both Given our history. I鈥檓 trying to think of a witty comeback when Boggs says brusquely, 鈥淲ell don鈥檛 expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.”
― Mockingjay
鈥‵ulvia Cardew hustles over an makes a sound of frustration when she sees my clean face. 鈥淎ll that hard work, down the drain. I鈥檓 not blaming you, Katniss. It鈥檚 just that very few people are born with camera-ready faces. Like him.鈥 She snags Gale, who鈥檚 in a conversation with Plutarch, and spins him towards us. 鈥淚sn鈥檛 he handsome?鈥濃℅ale does look stricking in the uniform, I guess. But the question just embarrasses us both Given our history. I鈥檓 trying to think of a witty comeback when Boggs says brusquely, 鈥淲ell don鈥檛 expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.”
― Mockingjay

“You know, some people think Shadowhunters are just myths. Like mummies and genies." Kyle grinned at Jace. "Can you grant wishes?"
"That depends," he said. "Do you wish to be punched in the face?”
― City of Fallen Angels
"That depends," he said. "Do you wish to be punched in the face?”
― City of Fallen Angels

“He looks," Simon had once said to Isabelle, "like he's thinking about something deep and meaningful, but if you ask him what it is, he'll punch you in the face.”
― City of Fallen Angels
― City of Fallen Angels

“Clary,
Despite everything, I can't bear the thought of this ring being lost forever, any more then I can bear the thought of leaving you forever. And though I have no choice about the one, at least I can choose about the other. I'm leaving you our family ring because you have as much right to it as I do.
I'm writing this watching the sun come up. You're asleep, dreams moving behind your restless eyelids. I wish I knew what you were thinking. I wish I could slip into your head and see the world the way you do. I wish I could see myself the way you do. But maybe I dont want to see that. Maybe it would make me feel even more than I already do that I'm perpetuating some kind of Great Lie on you, and I couldn't stand that.
I belong to you. You could do anything you wanted with me and I would let you. You could ask anything of me and I'd break myself trying to make you happy. My heart tells me this is the best and greatest feeling I have ever had. But my mind knows the difference between wanting what you can't have and wanting what you shouldn't want. And I shouldn't want you.
All night I've watched you sleeping, watched the moonlight come and go, casting its shadows across your face in black and white. I've never seen anything more beautiful. I think of the life we could have had if things were different, a life where this night is not a singular event, separate from everything else that's real, but every night. But things aren't different, and I can't look at you without feeling like I've tricked you into loving me.
The truth no one is willing to say out loud is that no one has a shot against Valentine but me. I can get close to him like no one else can. I can pretend I want to join him and he'll believe me, up until that last moment where I end it all, one way or another. I have something of Sebastian's; I can track him to where my father's hiding, and that's what I'm going to do. So I lied to you last night. I said I just wanted one night with you. But I want every night with you. And that's why I have to slip out of your window now, like a coward. Because if I had to tell you this to your face, I couldn't make myself go.
I don't blame you if you hate me, I wish you would. As long as I can still dream, I will dream of you.
_Jace”
― City of Glass
Despite everything, I can't bear the thought of this ring being lost forever, any more then I can bear the thought of leaving you forever. And though I have no choice about the one, at least I can choose about the other. I'm leaving you our family ring because you have as much right to it as I do.
I'm writing this watching the sun come up. You're asleep, dreams moving behind your restless eyelids. I wish I knew what you were thinking. I wish I could slip into your head and see the world the way you do. I wish I could see myself the way you do. But maybe I dont want to see that. Maybe it would make me feel even more than I already do that I'm perpetuating some kind of Great Lie on you, and I couldn't stand that.
I belong to you. You could do anything you wanted with me and I would let you. You could ask anything of me and I'd break myself trying to make you happy. My heart tells me this is the best and greatest feeling I have ever had. But my mind knows the difference between wanting what you can't have and wanting what you shouldn't want. And I shouldn't want you.
All night I've watched you sleeping, watched the moonlight come and go, casting its shadows across your face in black and white. I've never seen anything more beautiful. I think of the life we could have had if things were different, a life where this night is not a singular event, separate from everything else that's real, but every night. But things aren't different, and I can't look at you without feeling like I've tricked you into loving me.
The truth no one is willing to say out loud is that no one has a shot against Valentine but me. I can get close to him like no one else can. I can pretend I want to join him and he'll believe me, up until that last moment where I end it all, one way or another. I have something of Sebastian's; I can track him to where my father's hiding, and that's what I'm going to do. So I lied to you last night. I said I just wanted one night with you. But I want every night with you. And that's why I have to slip out of your window now, like a coward. Because if I had to tell you this to your face, I couldn't make myself go.
I don't blame you if you hate me, I wish you would. As long as I can still dream, I will dream of you.
_Jace”
― City of Glass

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