Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel Quotes
Let me give you a piece of advice. The handsome young fellow who's trying to rescue you from a hideous fate is never wrong. Not even if he says the sky is purple and made of hedgehogs.
Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.
Your angel cannot protect you against that which neither god nor the devil had made
Will looked horrified. "What kind of monster could possibly hate chocolate?
It is as great a thing to love as it is to be loved. Love is not something that can be wasted.
He banged on the side of the carriage. "Thomas! We must away at once to the nearest brothel. I seek scandal and low companionship.
While the Clave disapproves of trespassers, oddly they take an even darker view of beheading and skinning people. They're peculiar that way.
When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does.
No real lady would let a dress that might have been worn by a stranger touch her skin.
Am I blind?" Will's voice floated out of the darkness, tinged with annoyance. "I'm not going to be at all pleased if you've blinded me, Henry.
You ask a lot of questions, don't you?" "My brother always says curiosity is my besetting sin.
In Will's experience, when someone who ought to be afraid wasn't, the reason was rarely bravery. Usually it meant that they knew something you didn't.
You could know a man not by what his friends said about him, but by how he treated his servants.
You've always been what you are. That's not new. What you'll get used to is knowing it.
Anyone that looked like that wouldn't need to tie up girls and imprison them in order to get them to marry him
Oh, I can never get enough. Which, incidentally, is what your sister said when--
It was odd, (Tessa thought), what brought out tenderness in people.
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.
she was glad she had been scarred. She said that whoever loved her now would love her true self, and not her pretty face.
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.
Certainly it would be wonderful if we all knew exactly who we were.
Anger, Tessa thought, was satisfying in its own way, when you gave in to it. There was something gratifying about shouting in a blind rage until your words ran out.
Will interrupted. "Henry, " he said, "you're on fire. You do know that, don't you?
One must always be careful of books, " said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.
She's alive, " Thomas said, not opening his eyes."What?" Will was caught off guard."The one you come back for. Her. Tessa. She's with Sophie.
Their beauty had always seemed to him like the beauty of pressed flowers - lovely, but dead.
Will: Have you ever seen what happens to someone with demon pox? First it lies dormant. One begins to turn yellow and green. Then the swelling sets in -Jem: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS DEMON POX.
Tessa: Are all vampires like that? Cold like that?Charlotte: Many of them have been alive a long time. They don't see things the way we do.
It's alright to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.
Will: I've never seen anyone get so excited over books before. You'd think they were diamonds.Tessa: Well, they are, aren't they? Isn't there anything you love like that?
It was so odd what brought out tenderness in people. It was never what you have expected.
Most of us do things for reasons that are more purely personal. For love, or for hate.