Jem Carstairs Quotes - Page 2

• Say something in Mandarin,” said Tessa, with a smile. Jem said something that sounded like a lot of breathy vowels and consonants run together, his voice rising and falling melodically: “Ni hen piao liang.” “What did you say?” Tessa was curious. “I said your hair is coming undone — here,” he said, and reached out and tucked an escaping curl back behind her ear. Tessa felt the blood spill hot up into her face, and was glad for the dimness of the carriage. “You have to be careful with it,” he said, taking his hand back, slowly, his fingers lingering against her cheek.

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  Running, Fall, Hair

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• I do not believe you can threaten people into goodness.” - Jem Carstairs

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  Believe, People, Goodness

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• I shall see you on Blackfriars Bridge, Tessa.

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  Princess, Bridges, Clockwork

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1386, Simon and Schuster

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• Your place is with me. It always will be. -Jem Carstairs

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  Jem, James Carstairs

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• Come with me," she said. "Stay with me. Be with me. See everything with me. I have traveled the world and seen so much, but there is so much more, and no one I would rather see it with than you. I would go everywhere and anywhere with you, Jem Carstairs.

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  World, Said, Stay With Me

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• For that was love, wasnt it--to burn bright in someone else's eyes?

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  Eye, Clockwork Angel, Clockwork Prince

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• All my life, since I came to the Institute, you were the mirror of my soul. I saw the good in me in you. In your eyes alone I found grace. When you are gone from me, who will see me like that?

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  Eye, Mirrors, Soul

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.505, Simon and Schuster

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• I know you feel inhuman, and as if you are set apart, away from life and love, but... I promise you, the right man won't care.

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  Life And Love, Men, Promise

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.444, Simon and Schuster

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• He played of love and loss and years of silence, words unsaid and vows unspoken, and all the spaces between his heart and theirs; and when he was done, and he'd set the violin back in its box, Will's eyes were closed, but Tessa's were full of tears.

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  Heart, Eye, Loss

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1434, Simon and Schuster

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• Listen to me. I am leaving, but I am living. I will not be gone from you entirely, Will. When you fight now, I will be still by you. When you walk in the world, I will be the light at your side, the ground steady under your feet, the force that drives the sword in your hand. We are bound, beyond the oath. The Marks did not change that. The oath did not change that. It merely gave words to something that existed already.

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  Fighting, Light, Hands

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.506, Simon and Schuster

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• You cannot reduce the situation to worm jokes, Will. This is Gabriel and Gideon’s father we’re discussing.” “We’re not just discussing him; we’re chasing him through an ornamental sculpture garden because he’s turned into a worm.

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  Father, Garden, Gideon

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• So you are dying for love, then," Will said finally, his voice sounding constricted to his own ears. 'Dying a little faster for love. And there are worse things to die for.

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  Voice, Dying, Ears

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1001, Simon and Schuster

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• For five years it had been his absolute truth. Jem and Will. Will and Jem. Will Herondale lives, therefore Jem Carstairs lives also.

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  Princess, Years, Jem

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.313, Simon and Schuster

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• I will still be in some part the Jem you knew, and I will see you with the eyes of my heart.

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  Eye, Heart, Jem

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1392, Simon and Schuster

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• Will’s voice dropped. “Everyone makes mistakes, Jem.” “Yes,” said Jem. “You just make more of them than most people.” “I —” “You hurt everyone,” said Jem. “Everyone whose life you touch.” “Not you,” Will whispered. “I hurt everyone but you. I never meant to hurt you.” Jem put his hands up, pressing his palms against his eyes. “Will —” “You can’t never forgive me,” Will said in disbelief, hearing the panic tinging his own voice. “I’d be —” “Alone?” Jem lowered his hand, but he was smiling now, crookedly. “And whose fault is that?

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  Hurt, Mistake, Eye

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• James, you are all the family I have. I would die for you. You know that. I would die without you. If it were not for you, I would be dead a hundred times over these past five years. I owe you everything, and if you cannot believe I have empathy, perhaps you might at least believe I know honor--honor, and debt--

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  Believe, Past, Years

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• Someday, Will, I will go where none can follow me, and I think it will be sooner rather than later. Have you ever asked yourself why I agreed to be your parabatai?

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  Thinking, Follow Me, Someday

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.691, Simon and Schuster

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• You are home for me now." --Jem to Tessa

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  Home, Jem

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• Jem shook his head. "You bit de Quincey" he said. "You fool. He's a VAMPIRE" "I had no choice" said Will " He was choking me" "I know" Jem said. " But really Will, AGAIN?

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  Choices, Vampire, Fool

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Clockwork Angel”, p.263, Simon and Schuster

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• As metal rang on metal, some inner part of Jem, some part that had been lost without his even knowing it was lost, felt the pleasure of fighting together with Will one last time.

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  Fighting, Knowing, Together

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.447, Simon and Schuster

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• This was a voice that drew out memories stretched thin by years of recollection, like paper unfolded and refolded too many times. A voice that brought back, like a wave, the memory of another time on this bridge, a night so long ago, everything black and silver and the river rushing away under her feet.

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  Memories, Princess, Night

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Princess”, p.556, Simon and Schuster

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• She knew she could not be Jem for Will. No one could. But slowly the hollow places in his heart were filling in.

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  Heart, Filling In, Jem

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1409, Simon and Schuster

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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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• We’re Nephilim. Every one of our life’s passages has some mystical component — our births, our deaths, our, marriages, everything has a ceremony and a rune. There is one as well if you wish to become someone’s parabatai. It’s no small commitment.

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  Commitment, Wish, Nephilim

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• He began it,” Cecily said, jerking her chin at Will, though she knew it was pointless. Jem, Will’s parabatai, treated her with the distant sweet kindness reserved for the little sisters of one’s friends, but he would always side with Will. Kindly, but firmly, he put Will above everything else in the world. Well, nearly everything.

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  Sweet, Kindness, Little Sister

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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