Infernal Devices Quotes

• It is the mundanes who look at me and see something they do not understand—a boy who is not quite white and not quite foreign either." "Just as I am not human, and not demon either," Tessa said softly. His eyes softened. "You are human," he said. "Never think you are not. I have seen you with your brother; I know how you care for him. If you can feel hope, guilt, sorrow, love—then you are human.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Eye, Boys

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• As the carriage whipped forward, they passed the alley she had spent so many days staring at—it was there, and then gone as they careened around a corner, nearly knocking over a costermonger pushing a donkey cart piled high with new potatoes. Tessa screamed. Will reached past her and yanked the curtain shut. "It's better if you don't look," he told her pleasantly. "He's going to kill someone. Or get us killed." "No, he won't. Thomas is an excellent driver." Tessa glared at him. "Clearly the word excellent means something else on this side of the Atlantic.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mean, Past, Looks

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• I'm trying to figure out how someone could live in a brothel for a month and not notice. You must be terribly dull-witted." Tessa glared. "If it helps at all, it seemed to be quite a high-class establishment. Nicely furnished, fairly clean..." "Sounds as if you've visited your fair share of brothels," Tessa said, sourly. "Making a study of them?" "More of a hobby," said Will, and smiled like a bad angel.

  Cassandra Clare

  Angel, Class, Trying

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• One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.

  Cassandra Clare

  Inspirational, Book, Healing

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• I can offer you my life, but it is a short life; I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many more beats it shall sustain

  Cassandra Clare

  Short Life, Heart, Ideas

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Prince”, p.430, Simon and Schuster

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

  Cassandra Clare

  Inspirational, Funny, Book

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Cassandra Clare

  Fate, Sky, Purple

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Angel”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you.

  Cassandra Clare

  Love, Happy Anniversary, World

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• 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

  Love You, Knowing, Want

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Prince”, p.398, Simon and Schuster

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• Ah,” said a voice from the doorway, “having your annual ‘everyone thinks Will is a lunatic’ meeting, are you? “It’s biannual,” said Jem. “And no, this is not that meeting.

  Cassandra Clare

  Thinking, Voice, Doorways

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Prince”, p.327, Simon and Schuster

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• It is as great a thing to love as it is to be loved. Love is not something that can be wasted.

  Cassandra Clare

  Love Is

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Angel”, p.470, Simon and Schuster

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• You speak of sacrifice, but it is not my sacrifice I offer. It is yours I ask of you," he went on. "I can offer you my life, but it is a short life; I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many more beats it shall sustain. But I love you enough to hope that you will not care that I am being selfish in trying to make the rest of my life--whatever its length--happy, by spending it with you. I want to be married to you, Tessa. I want it more than I have ever wanted anything else in my life.

  Cassandra Clare

  Love, Selfish, Short Life

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• They say you cannot love two people equally at once,” she said. “And perhaps for others that is so. But you and Will—you are not like two ordinary people, two people who might have been jealous of each other, or who would have imagined my love for one of them diminished by my love of the other. You merged your souls when you were both children. I could not have loved Will so much if I had not loved you as well. And I could not love you as I do if I had not loved Will as I did.

  Cassandra Clare

  Children, Princess, Love You

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Princess”, p.564, Simon and Schuster

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• One must always be careful of books.

  Cassandra Clare

  Book, Shadowhunters, City Of Lost Souls

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• I love you. And I don't want to lose you.

  Cassandra Clare

  Love You, Found You, Want

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Prince”, p.398, Simon and Schuster

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• Amor verus numquam moritur: True love never dies

  Cassandra Clare

  Amor, Love Never Dies, Dies

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• If I might make a suggestion,” said Will. “About twenty paces behind us, in the Council room, is Benedict. If you’d like to go back in there and try kicking him, I recommend aiming upward and a bit to the left—

  Cassandra Clare

  Trying, Twenties, Suggestions

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily.

  Cassandra Clare

  Death, Princess, Found

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.294, Simon and Schuster

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• The more beautiful the skin is, the more deadly it is. That's what Will's like. All that pretty face and whatnot just hides how twisted up and rotten he is on the inside.

  Cassandra Clare

  Beautiful, Skins, Rotten

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• For I wondered that others, subject to death, did live, since he whom I loved, as if he should never die, was dead; and I wondered yet more that myself, who was to him a second self, could live, he being dead. Well said one of his friend, "Thou half of my soul"; for I felt that my soul and his soul were "one soul in two bodies": and therefore was my life a horror to me, because I would not live halved. And therefore perchance I feared to die, lest he whom I had much loved should die wholly.

  Saint Augustine

  Self, Two, Soul

  Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Saint Augustine of Hippo (2006). “The Confessions of Saint Augustine”, p.53, 1st World Publishing

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• Gideon Lightwood said he was at the Institute in Madrid. What on earth was he doing there?' 'Faffing about, most likely', said Will.

  Cassandra Clare

  Gideon, Earth, Madrid

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.543, Simon and Schuster

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• Well, I don't want you to die," Tessa said. "I don't know why I feel it so strongly -- I've just met you -- but I don't want you to die." "And I trust you," he said. "I don't know why -- I've just met you -- but I do.

  Cassandra Clare

  Want, I Trust You, Mets

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Angel”, p.342, Simon and Schuster

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• Of course, the guests were also staring because they know of my relationship with Camille, and are wondering what we might be doing here in the library... alone." He wiggled his eyebrows at Tessa.

  Cassandra Clare

  Eyebrows, Library, Guests

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.227, Simon and Schuster

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