Clockwork Princess Quotes - Page 2

• You know that feeling,” she said, “when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel the cold and darkness coming, see the net drawing tight around the characters who live and breathe on the pages. But you are tied to the story as if being dragged behind a carriage and you cannot let go or turn the course aside.” His blue eyes were dark with understanding — of course Will would understand.

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  Letting Go, Reading, Book

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• You would make a very ugly woman" "I would not. I would be stunning

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  Would Be, Ugly, Stunning

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1407, Simon and Schuster

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• One must always be careful of books.

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  Book, Infernal Devices, Shadowhunters

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• Pointless, needless suffering and pain? I don’t suppose it would help if I told you that was the way life is. The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away.

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  Pain, Evil, Suffering

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• Unfortunatley, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remains my self.

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  Self, One True Love, Remains

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• All Lightwoods look the same to me—

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  Looks, Gabriel Lightwood

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.262, Simon and Schuster

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• By the Angel, it just crushed Sophocles," noted Will. "Has no one respect for the classics these days?

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  Angel, These Days, Crushed

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.967, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm afraid to answer that. I've heard that when I speak, it makes American women wish to strike me with umbrellas.

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  Wish, Answers, Speak

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1407, Simon and Schuster

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• Gabriel’s green eyes sought Will. “It was demon pox, wasn’t it? You know all about it, don’t you? Aren’t you some sort of expert?” “Well, you needn’t act as if I invented it,” said Will.

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  Eye, Demon Pox, Experts

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• And now I need you to do for me what I cannot do for myself. For you to be my eyes when I do not have them. For you to be my hands when I cannot use my own. For you to be my heart when mine is done beating.

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  Heart, Eye, Hands

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “Clockwork Princess”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

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• The first one is always the hardest," he said. "The first?" "The first one you love who dies," he said. "It gets easier, after.

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  Firsts, One You Love, Easier

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.555, Simon and Schuster

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• Mr. Rochester never courted Jane Eyre, Tessa pointed out. No, he dressed up as a woman and terrified the poor girl out of her wits. Is that what you want?

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  Girl, Want, Poor

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Princess”, p.522, Simon and Schuster

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• Will gave a short laugh. He was in gear as if he had just come from the practice room, and his hair curled damply against his temples. He was not looking at Tessa, but she had grown used to that. Will hardly ever looked at her unless he had to.

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  Hair, Practice, Laughing

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “Clockwork Princess”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• Marry me," he said. "Marry me, Tess. Marry me and be Tessa Herondale. Or be Tessa Gray, or be whatever you wish to call yourself, but marry me and stay with me and never leave me, for I cannot bear another day of my life to go by that does not have you in it.

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  Wish, Doe, Another Day

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.539, Simon and Schuster

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• Men may be stronger, but it is women who endure.

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  Truth, Men, Stronger

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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• Rage flared up in Tessa and she considered belting Woolsey with the poker whether he came near her or not. He had moved awfully quickly while fighting Will, though, and she didn’t fancy her chances. “You don’t know James Carstairs. Don’t speak about him.” “Love him, do you?” Woolsey managed to make it sound unpleasant. “But you love Will, too.” Tessa froze. She had known that Magnus knew of Will’s affection for her, but the idea that what she felt for him in return was written across her face was too terrifying to contemplate.

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  Fighting, Ideas, Sound

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• Surely the Shadowhunter community must honor you and hold you in high esteem as a gentleman who has truly advanced their race. No, Henry said sadly. Mostly they wish that I would stop suggesting new inventions and cease setting fire to things.

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  Fire, Race, Community

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.281, Simon and Schuster

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• Wasn't it? Is loyalty still a commendable quality when it is misdirected?

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  Loyalty, Quality, Stills

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1203, Simon and Schuster

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• Tessa had lain down beside him and slid her arm beneath his head, and put her head on his chest,listening to the ever-weakening beat of his heart. And in the shadows they'd whispered, reminding each other of the stories only they knew. Of the girl who had hit over the head with a water jug the boy who had come to rescue her, and how he had fallen in love with her in that instant. Of a ballroom and a balcony and the moon sailing like a ship untethered through the sky. Of the flutter of the wings of the clockwork Angel. Of holy water and blood.

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  Girl, Princess, Heart

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.551, Simon and Schuster

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• One can love two children. But your heart can be given romantic love to only a single other, said Woolsey.

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  Children, Heart, Romantic Love

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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• I love you so much, so incredibly much," he went on, "and I forget when you're close to me, I forget who you are. I forget that you're Jem's. I'd have to be the worst sort of person to think what I'm thinking right now. But I am thinking it.

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  Princess, Love You, Thinking

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• I think there is hope for you yet, Will Herondale. I will try to learn how to have it, without you to show me. Tessa, Jem said. She knows despair, and hope as well. you can teach each other. Find her, Will, and tell her that I loved her always. My blessings, for all that it is worth, is on you both.

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  Princess, Thinking, Blessing

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1151, Simon and Schuster

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• And you should not be out and about in your nightgown. There are Lightwoods wandering these halls.

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  Princess, Should, Wander

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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• Will closed his eyes. He could not hear Jem go, not anymore; he did not want to know the moment when he left and Will was alone, did now want to know when his first day as a Shawdowhunter without a parabatai truly began. And if the place over his heart, where his parabatai rune had been, flared up with a sudden burning pain as the door closed behind Jem, Will told himself it was only a stray ember from the fire.

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  Pain, Princess, Eye

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “Clockwork Princess”, p.508, Simon and Schuster

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• There's nothing you could have done that would cause me to cease loving either of you. Will is myself, my own soul, and if I am not to have the keeping of your heart, then there is not other I would rather have that honor.

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  Princess, Heart, Soul

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