#tda snippets

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Daily TDA Quote or Snippet #45

Julian sighed. 

He wanted to relax into his older brother, let Mark hold him up the way he once had. But Mark was slighter than he was, fragile under his hands.

He would be holding Mark up from now on. It was not what he had imagined, dreamed of, but it was the reality. 

It was his brother. He tightened his hands on Mark and adjusted his heart to bear the new burden.

-Lady Midnight, The Dark Artifices #1 by Cassandra Clare [ @cassandraclare ]

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Daily TDA Quote or Snippet #39

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“...But he hurt Jules, so when we track him down, I’m going to chop him up and feed him to my fish.”

“You don’t have fish,” Julian said.

“Well, I’m going to buy some,” said Emma. “I’m going to buy goldfish and feed them blood until they acquire a taste for human flesh.”

“That’s disgusting,” said Livvy.

-Lady Midnight, The Dark Artifices #1 by Cassandra Clare 

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Daily TDA Quote or Snippet #42

She [Emma] could see it on his face. 

To save her he [Julian] would kill everyone else in the vicinity. 

He wouldn’t think twice until it was over, when he’d wash the blood down the drain of the sink like scarlet paint. And he would not regret it.

-Lady Midnight, The Dark Artifices #1 by Cassandra Clare [ @cassandraclare ]

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Daily TDA Quote or Snippet #46

“Why must you state things that are obvious? Why must all humans do it? Foolish girl—” 

Julian changed; his attention snapped away from Mark, his spine straightening, his voice hardening.

He sounded calm, but Emma, who knew him so well, could hear the ice in his voice.

“Emma is my parabatai,” he said. “If you ever speak to her like that again, there will be blood on the floor of the Sanctuary, and I do not care if they put me to death for it.”

-Lady Midnight, The Dark Artifices #1 by Cassandra Clare [ @cassandraclare ]

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Daily TDA Quote or Snippet #4

“I’m your parabatai. I have to show off occasionally. Otherwise no one would understand why you keep me around.” 

[....]

“I keep you around because I need an audience for my witty remarks,” she said.

-Lady Midnight, The Dark Artifices #1 by Cassandra Clare

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Daily TDA Quote or Snippet #26

He [Julian] was clearly just awake and tousle-haired and so adorable that she [Emma] could only keep herself from attacking him by putting her hands behind her back.

“Why are you putting your hands behind your back?” he asked.

“No reason.”

-Lady Midnight, The Dark Artifices #1 by Cassandra Clare 

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Daily TDA Quote or Snippet #28

“I tried to stop,” he said. “That’s why I went to England. I thought if I was away from you, maybe I’d stop feeling what I was feeling.”

“But as soon as I got back, the first second that I saw you, I knew it hadn’t made any difference.” 

He looked around the room, his expression almost resigned. 

“Why all these paintings of you? Because I’m an artist, Emma. These pictures are my heart. And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you.”

-Lady Midnight, The Dark Artifices #1 by Cassandra Clare

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Daily TDA Quote or Snippet #34

“Get up and set the table, you useless layabouts—not you, Cristina,” he [Julian] added, looking embarrassed. “You’re a guest.”

“I’ll be here for a year. I’m not really a guest,” Cristina said, and went with the rest of them to get cutlery and plates.

-Lady Midnight, The Dark Artifices #1 by Cassandra Clare