Clockwork Prince Quotes

“Demon pox," said Sophie. "Mr. Lightwood's got it, has had for years, and it'll kill him in a right couple of months if he doesn't get the cure. And Mortmain said he can get it for him."
The room exploded in a hubbub. Charlotte raced over to Sophie; Henry called after her; Will leaped from his chair and was dancing in a circle.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“Wo ai ni, Tessa,” he whispered. “Wo bu xiang shi qu ni.” She knew, without knowing how she knew, what the words meant. I love you. And I don’t want to lose you.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Prince

“The virtue of angels is that they cannot deteriorate; their flaw is that they cannot improve. Man's flaw is that he can deteriorate; and his virtue is that he can improve.”
― Hasidic Saying

“I can't - I'll chop off my own foot!"
"If you're going to chop off anyone's foot, chop off Benedict's," Will muttered.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“If the marriage were valid, she'd be your sister-in-law.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“And very amusing it is to watch,” said Jem. “Did you know you twitch your nose when you sleep, like a rabbit?”
“I do not,” she said, with a whispered laugh.- In my dreams (Chapter 17) deleted scene- Clockwork Prince”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“I know,” he said, looking down at himself — skin like papier-mache, ribs like violin strings. “I am not — I mean, I look —”

“Beautiful,” she said, and the word was a pronouncement. “You are beautiful, James Carstairs.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“He touched her as he would touch his violin: it was how he knew to touch something that was precious and loved.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“All these were things he could not want, because they were the things he could not have, and wanting you could not have led to misery and madness.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“Meanwhile, Will had begun cutting his toast into strips and was making rude pictographs out of them.
Oh, that looks rather like a ...- , Jem began.”
― Cassandra Clare

“The Law is hard,” said Charlotte, “but it is the Law.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“Will," she said softly, sleepily. "Last night-" You were kind to me, she was going to say. Thank you.
The glare from his blue eyes stabbed through her. "There was no last night," he said through his teeth.
At that, she sat up straight, almost awake. "Oh truly? We just went right from one afternoon on through till the next morning? How odd no one else has remarked on it. I should think it some sort of miracle, a day with no night-”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“Will, the boy who loved the same books she did, the same poetry she did, who made her laugh even when she was furious. And here he was standing in front of her, telling her he loved the words of her heart, the shape of her soul. Telling her something she had never imagined anyone would ever tell her. Telling her something she would never be told again, not in this way. And not by him." - Clockwork Prince”
― Cassandra Clare

“Perhaps you are a clockwork girl. Perhaps Mortmain’s warlock father built you, and now Mortmain seeks the secret of how to create such a perfect facsimile of life when all he can build are hideous monstrosities. Perhaps all that beats beneath your chest is a heart made of metal.’
Tessa drew in a breath, feeling momentarily dizzy. His soft voice was so convincing, and yet--’No,’ she said sharply. ‘You forget, I remember my childhood. Mechanical creatures do not change or grow. Nor would that explain my ability.’
‘I know,’ said Will with a grin that flashed white in the darkness. ‘I only wanted to see if I could convince you.’
Tessa looked at him steadily. ‘I am not the one who has no heart.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could never love anyone, never be loved by anyone again.”
― Will Harondale, Clockwork Prince

“Sometimes he wondered if he did these things just to test himself. To see if the feelings had gone. But they had not. When he saw her, he wanted to be with her; when he was with her, he ached to touch her; when he touched even her hand, he wanted to embrace her. He wanted to feel her against him the way he had in the attic. He wanted to know the taste of her skin and the smell of her hair. He wanted to make her laugh. He wanted to sit and listen to her talk about books until his ears fell off. But all these things he could not want, because they were things he could not have, and wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“Who ever said we were owed happiness?”
― Cassanda Clare

“And her brother John set her on her horse.'Now you are high and I am low,Give me a kiss before ye go.’She leaned down to give him a kiss,He gave her a deep wound and did not miss.And with a knife as sharp as a dart,Her brother stabbed her to the heart. ”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“If you hold it away from yourself long enough, do you lose it entirely? If no one cares for you at all, do you even exist?”
― Cassanda Clare

“Gracious, that's a lot of bosom you're showing." - Magnus Bane”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“La traición nunca prospera, cual será la razón?
Que si prospera, nadie osa llamarla traición.”
― John Harrington

“When I think of you, and you are not here, I see you in my mind's eye always with a book in your hand.”
― Cassandra Clare