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Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices, #3) QUOTES

Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices, #3) QUOTES

41 " I want to kiss you one more time before I die. "

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42 " To lose an arm or a leg would be painful, but to lose the central truth of your life felt—fatal. "

― Cassandra Clare , Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices, #3)

43 " Hope is not an illusion. "

― Cassandra Clare , Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices, #3)

44 " Who am I?” he whispered. “For years I pretended I was other than I was, and then I gloried that I might return to the truth of myself, only to find there is no truth to return to. I was an ordinary child, and then I was a not very good man, and now I do not know how to be either of those things any longer. I do not know what I am, and when Jem is gone, there will be no one to show me. "

― Cassandra Clare , Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices, #3)

45 " Those of us who do not live forever do not like change perhaps as much as those of you who do. "

― Cassandra Clare , Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices, #3)

46 " Yes, he would have done that for Tessa - died to keep the ones she needed beside her - and so would Jem have done that for him or for Tessa, and so would Tessa, he thought, do that for both of them. It was a near incomprehensible tangle, the three of them, but there was one certainty, and that was that there was no lack of love between them. "

― Cassandra Clare , Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices, #3)

47 " I feel like you can look inside me and see all the places I am odd or unusual and fit your heart around them, for you are odd and unusual in just the same way. We are the same. "

― Cassandra Clare , Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices, #3)

48 " When I am in the darkness, I want to think of it in the light, with you. - James Carstairs "

― Cassandra Clare , Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices, #3)

49 " Achilles was murdered with a poisoned arrow, and Jason died alone, killed by his own rotting ship. Such is the fate of heroes. "

― Cassandra Clare , Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices, #3)

50 " I am dramatic," said Will. "If i had not been a Shadowhunter, i would have had a future on the stage. "

― Cassandra Clare , Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices, #3)

51 " We are not our parents, Gabriel. We do not have to carry the burden of their choices or their sins. "

― Cassandra Clare , Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices, #3)

52 " Perhaps not," said Will, who had ears like a bat's. "But I would make a radiant bride. "

― Cassandra Clare , Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices, #3)

53 " Tessa was laying on her side, her brown hair spread over the pillow, watching Will, whose face was bent over the pages, with a look of tenderness in her eyes, a tenderness mirrored in the softness of Will's voice as he read. "

― Cassandra Clare , Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices, #3)

54 " Jem’s eyes had widened, and then he’d laughed, a soft laugh. “Did you think I did not know you had a secret?” he’d said. “Did you think I walked into my friendship with you with my eyes shut? I did not know the nature of the burden you carried. But I knew there was a burden.” He’d stood up. “I knew you thought yourself poison to all those around you,” he’d added. “I knew you thought there to be some corruptive force about you that would break me. I meant to show you that I would not break, that love was not so fragile. Did I do that? "

― Cassandra Clare , Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices, #3)

55 " Hell is cold. Do you remember when you told me that? We were in the cellars of the Dark House. Anyone else would have been panicking, but you were as calm as a governess, telling me Hell was covered in ice. If it is the fire of Heaven that takes you from me, what a cruel irony that would be. "

― Cassandra Clare , Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices, #3)

56 " I would have given it up--all of it up--to be married to you for a day. A day that would never have come. You are a reminder--a reminder of everything I am losting. The Life I will not have. "

― Cassandra Clare , Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices, #3)

57 " Eventually I fell asleep in the Rabies and Lycanthropy section. Woolsey bites on occasion, and I'm concerned.' - Magnus Bane "

― Cassandra Clare , Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices, #3)

58 " Will pushed his hands through his damp hair. “Oh, yes,” he said bitterly. “Perhaps in some other life, beyond this one, when we have passed beyond the river, or turned upon the Wheel, or whatever kind words you want to use to describe leaving this world, I shall find my friend again, my parabatai. But I have lost you now—now, when I need you more than I ever did! "

― Cassandra Clare , Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices, #3)

59 " Silence. "

― Cassandra Clare , Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices, #3)

60 " Go in peace, James Carstairs. "

― Cassandra Clare , Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices, #3)