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"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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""...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)

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"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,194 people liked it

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
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"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: dreams, love, reality, sleep
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"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor
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"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: wisdom
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"So did you stab Edward Cullen with a pencil or what?"
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

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"Elena gasped back, "I can touch the ground!"
"I can see you touching it!", Bonnie exclaimed with tears of joy."
— L.J. Smith (Dark Reunion)

tags: fiction
31 people liked it

"Edward - I wasn't about to send you off alone. With your luck, not even the black box would survive.
Bella - So let's say my bad luck did crash the plane. What exactly were you going to do about it?
Edward - Why is the plane crashing?
He was trying to hide a smile now.
Bella - The pilots are passed out drunk.
Edward - Easy. I'd fly the plane.
Of course. I pursed my lips and tried again.
Bella - Both engines have exploded and we're falling in a death spiral toward the earth.
Edward - I'd wait till we were close enough to the ground, get a good grip on you, kick out the wall, and jump. Then I'd run you back to the scene of the accident, and we'd stumble around like the two luckiest survivors in history.
I stared at him wordlessly.
"What?" he whispered."
— Stephenie Meyer (Eclipse)

tags: humor
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"Seth, are you gonna get mad at me if I kill your sister?"
He pretended to think about it for a minute. "Well...yeah, probably."
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)

tags: fantasy, fiction, romance
216 people liked it

"Your father always suspected that being pretty-minded is simply the natural state for most people. They want to be vapid and lazy and vain—Maddy glanced at Tally—and selfish. It only takes a twist to lock in that part of their personalities. He always thought that some people could think their way out of it."
— Scott Westerfeld (Uglies)

tags: fiction, science, ya
31 people liked it

"Is there any turkey legs in the fifteenth century"
— Margret Haddix

tags: around, complete, fiction, science, turn
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"I was thinking about the first time I ever saw you," he said, "and how after that I couldn't forget you. I wanted to, but I couldn't stop myself. I forced Hodge to let me be the one who came to find you and bring you back to the Institue. And even back then, in that stupid coffee shop, when I saw you sitting on that couch with Simon, even then that felt wrong to me-- I should have been the one sitting with you. The one who made you laugh like that. I couldn't get rid of that feeling. That it should have been me. And the more I knew you, the more I felt it--it had never been like that for me before. I'd always wanted a girl and then gotten to know her and not wanted her anymore, but with you the feeling just got stronger and stronger until that night when you showed up at Renwick's and I knew."
— Cassandra Clare (City of Glass)

tags: teen-fantasy, the-mortal-instruments-series
148 people liked it

"‘Well, I’m not kissing the mundane,’ said Jace. ‘I’d rather stay down here and rot.’
‘Forever?’ said Simon. ‘Forever’s an awfully long time.’
Jace raised his eyebrows. ‘I knew it,’ he said. ‘You want to kiss me, don’t you?’
"
— Cassandra Clare (City of Ashes)

tags: humor, jace-wayland, simon-lewis
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""I am a man" he told her,"and men do not consume pink beverages. Get thee gone woman, and bring me something brown"
-Jace Wayland"
— Cassandra Clare (City of Glass)

tags: brown, city-of-glass, clare, isabelle, jace
174 people liked it

""You said you were going for a walk!? What kind of walk takes six hours?"
""A long one?"
-Alec and Jace (mortal Instruments, City of Glass)"
— Cassandra Clare (City of Glass)

tags: alec, herondale, instruments, jace, lightwood, mortal, wayland
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"Just kissing? How quickly you dismiss out love.
-Jace"
— Cassandra Clare

tags: bones, city, instruments, jace, mortal
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""Just take the weapon you hold in your hand and drive it through his heart," Valentine's voice was soft. "One simple motion. Nothing you haven't done before."
Jace met his father's stare with a level gaze. "I saw Agramon," he said. "It had your face."
"You saw Agramon?" The Soul-Sword glittered as Valentine moved toward his son. "And you lived?"
"I killed it."
"You killed the Demon of Fear, but you won't kill a single vampire, not even at my order?"
Jace stood watching Valentine without expression. "He's a vampire, that's true," he said. "But his name is Simon.""
— Cassandra Clare (City of Ashes)

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"I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass"
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)

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" "I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teeenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead."
"Well," said Luke, "you're doing a vantastic job.""
— Cassandra Clare (City of Ashes)

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"If you were half as funny as you think you are, you'd be twice as funny as you are now."
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)

226 people liked it

"'We came to see Jace. Is he alright?' -Clary

'I don't know,' Magnus said. 'Does he normally just lie on the floor like that without moving?'"
— Cassandra Clare (City of Ashes)

tags: clary, jace, magnus
183 people liked it

"Not everything is about you," Clary said furiously.
"Possibly," Jace said, "but you do have to admit that the majority of things are."
— Cassandra Clare (City of Glass)

tags: teen-fantasy, the-mortal-instruments-series
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"And I'm suppose to sit by while you date boys and fall in love with someone else, get married...?" His voice tightened. "And meanwhile, I'll die a little bit more every day, watching."
— Cassandra Clare (City of Glass)

tags: romance, teen-fantasy, the-mortal-instruments-series
149 people liked it

"Clary blinked momentarily caught off gaurd. "What?"
"I said his poetry was terribl. It sounds like he ate a dictionary and started vomiting up words at random.""
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)

tags: humor
54 people liked it

"'well there goes my plan for selling them 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)

tags: humour
20 people liked it

"Where there is love, there is often also hate. They can exist side by side."
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)

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""Are you the one with the blue eyes?"

"Actually, my eyes are usually described as golden...and luminous.""
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)

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"'Patience grasshopper,' said Maia. 'Good things come to those who wait.'
'I always thought that was "Good things come to those who do the wave,"' said Simon. 'No wonder i've been so confused all my life.'"
— Cassandra Clare (City of Glass)

tags: cassandra, city, clare, glass, wave
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"There is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then."
— Cassandra Clare (City of Glass)

tags: romance, teen-fantasy, the-mortal-instruments-series
313 people liked it

"It means 'Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of our Enemies Since 1234.'""
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)

tags: city, humor, jace, silent
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"Isabelle drifted over, Jace a pace behind her. She was wearing a long black dress with boots and an even longer cutaway coat of soft green velvet, the color of moss. "I can't believe you did it!" she exclaimed. "How did you get Magnus to let Jace leave?"

"Traded him for Alec," Clary said.

Isabelle looked mildly alarmed. "Not permanently?"

"No," said Jace. "Just for a few hours. Unless I don't come back," he added thoughtfully. "In which case, maybe he does get to keep Alec. Think of it as a lease with an option to buy."

Isabelle looked dubious. "Mom and Dad won't be pleased if they find out."

"That you freed a possible criminal by trading away your brother to a warlock who looks like a gay Sonic the Hedgehog and dresses like the Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?" Simon inquired. "No, probably not.""
— Cassandra Clare (City of Ashes)

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"No, I'm just a very naughty boy. I do all sorts of bad things. I kick kittens. I make rude gestures at nuns."
— Cassandra Clare (City of Ashes)

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""When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, and then throw it in the
face of the person who gave you the lemons until they give you the
oranges you originally asked for."
"
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)

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"Usually I'm remarkably good natured. Try me on a day that doesn't end in y.
-Jace"
— Cassandra Clare

tags: instruments, jace, mortal
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"Clary: We need to talk. All of us About what we're going to do now.
Jace: I was going to watch Project Runway."
— Cassandra Clare (City of Ashes)

tags: ashes, city, clary, humor, jace
50 people liked it

""Lawful good to lawful evil!" said Simon, pleased.
"He's quoting Dungeons and Dragons," said Clary. "Ignore him.""
— Cassandra Clare (City of Ashes)

tags: ashes, city, clary, humor, simon
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"Never give us what we really want. Cut the dream into pieces and scatter them like ashes. Dole out the empty promises. Package our aspirations and sell them to us, cheaply made enough to fall apart."
— Scott Westerfeld (So Yesterday)

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"You see, freedom has a way of destroying things."
— Scott Westerfeld (Extras)

tags: destruction, freedom
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"I can’t imagine anything worse than being required to have fun. "
— Scott Westerfeld

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"And over all those sleepy weeks, the dream always ended the same way, with the dragon coming for the princess saying the same words every time....
"Face it, Tally-wa, you're Special.""
— Scott Westerfeld (Pretties)

46 people liked it

"You all say you need us. Well, maybe you do, but not to help, with the millions of bubbly new minds about to be unleashed, with all the cities coming awake at last. Together, you're more than enough to change the world without us. So from now on, David and I are here to stand in your way. You see, freedom has a way of destroying things."
— Scott Westerfeld

tags: extras
23 people liked it

""Come on, it's almost midnight. Let's go watch them cut the cake.""
— Scott Westerfeld (Extras)

26 people liked it

"Listen, you bubblehead-up-until-five-minutes-ago..."
— Scott Westerfeld (Specials)

21 people liked it

"You are so... 11:59"
— Scott Westerfeld (The Secret Hour)

tags: best, book, ever-, fantasy, fiction, horror, midnigters, science
24 people liked it

"Tally, do you ever suffer from sudden flashes of anger or euphoria, countersocial impulses, or feelings of superiority?"
— Scott Westerfeld (Specials)

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"Im Tally Youngblood.Make me pretty."
— Scott Westerfeld (Uglies)

tags: fiction, science
14 people liked it

""You're insane!" she shouted.
"Pretty cool, huh?"
"No!"Tally yelled. "Why didn't you tell me it was broken?"
Shay shrugged. "More fun that way?"
"More fun?" Her heart beating fast,her vision strangely clear. She was full of anger and relief and...joy.
"Well, kind of. But you suck!""
— Scott Westerfeld (Uglies)

tags: alchemist, anger, coaster, fma, full, fun, funny, humor, insane, joy, metal, more, relief, roller, scott, shay, tally, twilight, uglies, weterfeld
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