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Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, #1) QUOTES

Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, #1) QUOTES

1 " she was glad she had been scarred. She said that whoever loved her now would love her true self, and not her pretty face. "

― Cassandra Clare , Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, #1)

2 " Charlotte, darling, Henry said to his wife, who was staring at im in gape-mouthed horror. Jassamine, beside her, was wided eyed. Sorry im late. You know, i think i might nearly have the sensor working-
Will interrupted. Henry, he said, your on fire. You do know that, don't you?

Oh, yes, Henry said eagerly. The flames were now nearly to his shoulder. I've been working like a man possessed all day. Charlotte, did you hear what i said about the sensor?
Charlotte dropped her hand from her mouth. Henry! She shrieked. Your arm!

Henry glanced down at his arm, and his mouth dropped open.
Bloody hell! "

― Cassandra Clare , Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, #1)

3 " I adore Wilkie Collins,” Tessa cried. “Oh—Armadale! And The Woman in White …
Are you laughing at me?”
“Not at you,” said Will, grinning, “more because of you. I’ve never seen anyone get so
excited over books before. You’d think they were diamonds.”
“Well, they are, aren’t they? Isn’t there anything you love like that? And don’t say ‘spats’ or ‘lawn tennis’ or something silly.”
“Good Lord,” he said with mock horror, “it’s like she knows me already. "

― Cassandra Clare , Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, #1)

4 " It was odd, (Tessa thought), what brought out tenderness in people. "

― Cassandra Clare , Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, #1)

5 " The best lies are based on the
truth, at least in part "

― Cassandra Clare , Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, #1)

6 " Your angel cannot protect you against that which neither god nor the devil had made "

― Cassandra Clare , Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, #1)

7 " She was completely alone in the world. There was no one at all for her. No one in the world who cared whether she lived or died. Sometimes the horror of that thought threatened to overwhelm her and plunge her down into a bottomless darkness from which there would be no return. If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all? "

― Cassandra Clare , Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, #1)

8 " Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry. "

― Cassandra Clare , Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, #1)

9 " Will grinned. “Some of these books are dangerous,” he said. “It’s wise to be careful.”“One must always be careful of books,” said Tessa, “and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”“I’m not sure a book has ever changed me,” said Will. “Well, there is one volume that promises to teach one how to turn oneself into an entire flock of sheep—”“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry,” said Tessa "

― Cassandra Clare , Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, #1)

10 " Being a vampire is not a curse. It’s a disease,” Tessa filled in. “But they still can’t enter hallowed ground, then? Does that mean they’re damned?”
“That depends on what you believe,” said Jem. “And whether you believe in damnation at all.”
“But you hunt demons. You must believe in damnation!”
“I believe in good and evil,” said Jem. “And I believe the soul is eternal. I don’t believe in the fiery pit, the pitchforks, or the endless torment. I do not believe you can threaten people into goodness. "

― Cassandra Clare , Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, #1)

11 " Jem gave her a wistful look. “Must you go? I was rather hoping that you’d stay and be a ministering angel, but if you must go, you must.”
“I’ll stay,” Will said a bit crossly, and threw himself down in the armchair Tessa had just vacated. “I can minister angelically.”
“None too convincingly. And you’re not as pretty to look at as Tessa is,” Jem said, closing his eyes as he leaned back against the pillow.
“How rude. Many who have gazed upon me have compared it to gazing at the radiance of the sun.”
Jem still had his eyes closed. “If they mean that it gives you a headache, they aren’t wrong. "

― Cassandra Clare , Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, #1)

12 " Will suspected Jem was in fact cleverer than he was himself - but he lacked Will's tendency to assume the absolute worst about people and proceed from there. "

― Cassandra Clare , Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, #1)

13 " She smiled smugly. “We came to an agreement, the duck and I. "

― Cassandra Clare , Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, #1)

14 " Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck. "

― Cassandra Clare , Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, #1)

15 " So you're a Shadowhunter,' Nate said. 'De Quincey told me that you lot were monsters.'
'Was that before or after he tried to eat you?' Will inquired. "

― Cassandra Clare , Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, #1)

16 " While the Clave disapproves of trespassers, oddly they take an even darker view of beheading and skinning people. They're peculiar that way. "

― Cassandra Clare , Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, #1)

17 " Oh, I can never get enough. Which, incidentally, is what your sister said when-- "

― Cassandra Clare , Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, #1)

18 " I suspect he's sweet on Sophie and doesn't like to see her work too hard.'
Tessa was glad to hear it. She'd felt awful about her reaction to Sophie's scar, and the thought that Sophie had a male admirer - and a handsome one like that- eased her conscience slightly. 'Perhaps he's in love with Agatha', she said.
'I hope not. I intend to marry Agatha myself. She may be a thousand years old, but she makes an incomparable jam tart. Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal. "

― Cassandra Clare , Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, #1)

19 " Whatever you are physically, male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy – all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. Whatever the color, the shape, the design of the shade that conceals it, the flame inside the lamp remains the same. You are that flame. "

― Cassandra Clare , Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, #1)

20 " He made it very clear that he didn’t want me here,” she said at last. “That my remaining at the Institute is not the happy chance I thought it was. Not in his view.”
“And after I just finished telling you why you should consider him family,” Jem said, a bit ruefully. “No wonder you looked as if I’d just told you something awful just happened.”
“I’m sorry,” Tessa whispered.
“Don’t be. It’s Will who ought to be sorry.” Jem’s eyes darkened. “We shall throw him out onto the streets,” he proclaimed. “I promise you he’ll be gone by morning.”
Tessa started and sat upright. “Oh – no, you can’t mean that─”
He grinned. “Of course I don’t. But you did feel better for a moment there, didn’t you? "

― Cassandra Clare , Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, #1)