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If the marriage were valid, she'd be your sister-in-law. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

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For I wondered that others, subject to death, did live, since he whom I loved, as if he should never die, was dead; and I wondered yet more that myself, who was to him a second self, could live, he being dead. Well said one of his friend, "Thou half of my soul"; for I felt that my soul and his soul were "one soul in two bodies": and therefore was my life a horror to me, because I would not live halved. And therefore perchance I feared to die, lest he whom I had much loved should die wholly. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

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The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub. ↗

— Virgil

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Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke. ↗

— Willa Cather

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You serve a greater cause. Your life is not yours to throw away (Magnus Bane) ↗

— Cassandra Clare

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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I'm trying to figure out how someone could live in a brothel for a month and not notice. You must be terribly dull-witted." Tessa glared. "If it helps at all, it seemed to be quite a high-class establishment. Nicely furnished, fairly clean..." "Sounds as if you've visited your fair share of brothels," Tessa said, sourly. "Making a study of them?" "More of a hobby," said Will, and smiled like a bad angel. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

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wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness ↗

— Cassandra Clare

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Never trust a duck. ↗

— Will Herondale

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Gideon Lightwood said he was at the Institute in Madrid. What on earth was he doing there?' 'Faffing about, most likely', said Will. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

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