A gentle boy with a gentle soul, but every soul contains its own opposite, and the opposite of gentleness was ruthlessness-the beautiful wreckage of mercy. (Cassandra Clare)

A gentle boy with a gentle soul, but every soul contains its own opposite, and the opposite of gentleness was ruthlessness-the beautiful wreckage of mercy.

Cassandra Clare

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