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After the Bridge (The Infernal Devices #3.5) QUOTES

After the Bridge (The Infernal Devices #3.5) QUOTES

1 " Not forever, Tessa thought. They had a long, long time. A lifetime. His lifetime. And she would lose him one day, as she had lost Will, and her heart would break, as it had broken before. And she would put herself back together and go on, because the memory of having had Jem would be better than never having had him at all. "

― Cassandra Clare , After the Bridge (The Infernal Devices #3.5)

2 " Tessa Herondale Carstairs,” he whispered. “You should never worry about borrowing my name when you know that you can have it to keep. "

― Cassandra Clare , After the Bridge (The Infernal Devices #3.5)

3 " Forty-nine thousand, two hundred and seventy-five days since I last kissed you,” he said. “And I thought of you every single one of them. You do not have to remind me of the Tessa I loved. You were my first love and you will be my last one. I have never forgotten you. I have never not thought of you. "

― Cassandra Clare , After the Bridge (The Infernal Devices #3.5)

4 " For all my life,” he said, “when someone has said the word ‘beautiful’, it is your face I have seen. You are my own very definition of beautiful, Tessa Gray. "

― Cassandra Clare , After the Bridge (The Infernal Devices #3.5)

5 " What you said before,” she asked. “That Jace Herondale loves Clarissa Fairchild more than anyone you’ve ever known except someone — you never finished the sentence. Who was it?”
“I was going to say you and me and Will,” he said. “But — that’s rather a strange thing to say, isn’t it?”
“Not strange at all.” She cuddled in close against his side. “Exactly right. Ever and always, exactly right. "

― Cassandra Clare , After the Bridge (The Infernal Devices #3.5)

6 " I have every kind of control, and I have learned them over decades and decades, and I am using them all not to push you up against the bookcase and kiss you until neither of us can breathe.”

She lifted her chin. “And what would be wrong with that? "

― Cassandra Clare , After the Bridge (The Infernal Devices #3.5)

7 " I love you,” she said. “I always have and I always will. "

― Cassandra Clare , After the Bridge (The Infernal Devices #3.5)

8 " Jem thought of Jace Herondale. How he was like Will if someone had struck a match to Will and gilded him in living fire. "

― Cassandra Clare , After the Bridge (The Infernal Devices #3.5)

9 " Herondales, someone had told her once. They were everything that Shadowhunters had to offer, all in one family: both the best, and the worst. "

― Cassandra Clare , After the Bridge (The Infernal Devices #3.5)

10 " We have time to do everything,” he said, tracing one of his fingers down the side of her face. “We have forever. "

― Cassandra Clare , After the Bridge (The Infernal Devices #3.5)

11 " I didn’t lose everyone I loved.” He looked up at her, and she saw that his eyes had gold in them too, precious bright flakes among the brown. “I had you. "

― Cassandra Clare , After the Bridge (The Infernal Devices #3.5)

12 " I forget sometimes I need to eat and drink now. "

― Cassandra Clare , After the Bridge (The Infernal Devices #3.5)