Will Herondale Quotes - Page 2

• Tess, Tess, Tessa. Was there ever a more beautiful sound than your name? To speak it aloud makes my heart ring like a bell. Strange to imagine that, isn’t it—a heart ringing? But when you touch me, that is what it is like, as if my heart is ringing in my chest and the sound shivers down my veins and splinters my bones with joy.

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  Beautiful, Heart, Names

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.523, Simon and Schuster

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• And what colour do you suppose the inner depths of your soul are, Will Herondale?' 'Mauve,' said Will.

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  Soul, Depth, Said

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• 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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• Reparations,” said Jem very suddenly, setting down the pen he was holding. Will looked at him in puzzlement. “Is this a game? We just blurt out whatever word comes next to mind? In that case mine is ‘genuphobia’. It means an unreasonable fear of knees.” “What’s the word for a perfectly reasonable fear of annoying idiots?” inquired Jessamine.

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  Mean, Games, Mind

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• The witchlight made his skin paler, his eyes more intently blue. They were the color of the water in the North Atlantic, where the ice drifted on its blue-black surface like the snow clinging to the dark glass pane of a window.

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  Eye, Dark, Glasses

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Angel”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• If no one cares for you at all, do you even really exist?

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  Care, Ifs, No One Cares

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.602, Simon and Schuster

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• He bent to put his cheek against hers. His breath against her ear made her shudder with each deliberately spoken word. "I have wanted to do this," he said, "every moment of every hour of every day that I have been with you since the day I met you.

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  Ears, Moments, Hours

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.729, Simon and Schuster

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• One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.

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  Inspirational, Book, Healing

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

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• Jessamine recoiled from the paper as if it were a snake. "A lady does not read the newspaper. The society pages, perhaps, or the theater news. Not this filth." "But you are not a lady, Jessamine---," Charlotte began. "Dear me," said Will. "Such harsh truths so early in the morning cannot be good for the digestion.

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  Morning, Snakes, Doe

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Angel”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• Astriola. That IS demon pox. You had evidence that demon pox existed and you didnt mention it to me! Et tu, Brute!' He rolled up the paper and hit Jem over the head with it.

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  Paper, Pox, Demon

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Prince”, p.441, Simon and Schuster

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• I thought perhaps that when you told me you did not love me that my own feelings would fall away and atrophy, but they have not. They have grown every day. I love you now more desperately, this moment, than I have ever loved you before, and in an hour I will love you more than that

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  Fall, Love You, Feelings

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• Do you often sleep tied to the bed?

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  Sleep, Bed, Tied

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Angel”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• Trains are great dirty smoky things," said Will. "You won't like it." Tessa was unmoved. "I won't know if I like it until I try it, will I?" "I've never swum naked in the Thames before, but I know I wouldn't like it." "But think how entertaining for sightseers," said Tessa, and she saw Jem duck his head to hide the quick flash of his grin.

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  Dirty, Thinking, Ducks

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Prince”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• Jem told me what Ragnor Fell said about my father,” Will said. “That for my father, there was only ever one woman he loved, and it was her for him, or nothing. You are that for me. I love you, and I will only ever love you until I die —

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  Father, Love You, Said

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• Jem is nothing but goodness. That he struck you last night only shows how capable you are of driving even saints to madness.

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  Night, Saint, Lasts

  Twitter post from Apr 25, 2011

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• I am not the one of us who has no heart.

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  Heart, Clockwork Prince, Tessa Gray

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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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• 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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• under his dripping hair, he was as white as parchment, his hands clenched at his sides so tightly that they were shaking. It seemed clear that some terrible turmoil was ripping him apart from the inside out.

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  Hair, Hands, White

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.448, 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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• My name is Herondale," the boy said cheerfully. "William Herondale, but everyone calls me Will. Is this really your room? Not very nice, is it?" He wandered toward the window, pausing to examine the stacks of books on her bedside table, and then the bed itself. He waved a hand at the ropes. "Do you often sleep tied to the bed?

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  Nice, Book, Sleep

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Angel”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.

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  Cooking, Beauty Fades, Incomparable

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• He banged on the side of the carriage. "Thomas! We must away at once to the nearest brothel. I seek scandal and low companionship.

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  Scandal, Sides, Companionship

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Clockwork Angel”, p.268, Simon and Schuster

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• There's plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it.

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  Life, Wish, Looks

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite

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  Sad, Time, Get Well

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.601, Simon and Schuster

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