“You know, most psychologists agree that hostility is really just sublimated sexual attraction.”

— Cassandra Clare , book City of Bones

"Ah, that might explain why I so often run into people who seem to dislike me."
Clary and Jace, pg. 331
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

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