“The rules are the rules for a reason. Being a Shadowhunter, a good one, is about more than just training fourteen hours a day and knowing sixty-five ways of killing a man with salad tongs.”

—  Cassandra Clare, book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

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