Jem Carstairs Quotes

• Will has always been the brighter burning star, the one to catch attention — but Jem is a steady flame, unwavering and honest. He could make you happy.

  Cassandra Clare

  Stars, Flames, Attention

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.790, 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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• Our hearts, they need a mirror, Tessa. We see our better selves in the eyes of those who love us.

  Cassandra Clare

  Princess, Eye, Heart

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• Jem knotted his fingers in the material of Will's sleeve. "You are my parabatai," he said, "You said once I could ask anything of you.

  Cassandra Clare

  Said, Fingers, Jem

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• If there is a life after this one, he said, let me meet you in it, James Carstairs.

  Cassandra Clare

  Princess, Said, Let Me

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1151, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't know how to live in the world as a Shadowhunter without Will. I don't think i even want to. I am still a parabatai, but my other half is gone.

  Cassandra Clare

  Thinking, Gone, Half

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1439, Simon and Schuster

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• There are so many worse things than death. Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse.

  Cassandra Clare

  Able

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.414, Simon and Schuster

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• Wo wei ni xie de,” he said, as he raised the violin to his left shoulder, tucking it under his chin. He had told her many violinists used a shoulder rest, but he did not: there was a slight mark on the side of his throat, like a permanent bruise, where the violin rested. “You — made something for me?” Tessa asked. “I wrote something for you,” he corrected, with a smile, and began to play.

  Cassandra Clare

  Play, Bruises, Violin

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• Will closed his eyes. He could not hear Jem go, not anymore; he did not want to know the moment when he left and Will was alone, did now want to know when his first day as a Shawdowhunter without a parabatai truly began. And if the place over his heart, where his parabatai rune had been, flared up with a sudden burning pain as the door closed behind Jem, Will told himself it was only a stray ember from the fire.

  Cassandra Clare

  Pain, Princess, Eye

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “Clockwork Princess”, p.508, Simon and Schuster

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• I told you before, Jem, that you would not leave me. And you are still with me. When I breathe, I will think of you, for without you I would have been dead years ago. When I wake up and when I sleep, when I lift up my hands to defend myself or when I lie down to die, you will be with me. You say we are born and born again. I say there is a river that divides the dead and the living. What I do know is that if we are born again, I will meet you in another life, and if there is a river, you will wait on the shores for me to come to you, so that we can cross together.

  Cassandra Clare

  Lying, Princess, Sleep

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• Our souls are knit. We are one person, James.

  Cassandra Clare

  Soul, Clockwork Prince, Persons

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.690, Simon and Schuster

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• What I do know is that if we are born again, I will meet you in another life, and if there is a river, you will wait on the shores for me to come to you, so that we can cross together.

  Cassandra Clare

  Princess, Rivers, Waiting

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.327, Simon and Schuster

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• There's nothing you could have done that would cause me to cease loving either of you. Will is myself, my own soul, and if I am not to have the keeping of your heart, then there is not other I would rather have that honor.

  Cassandra Clare

  Princess, Heart, Soul

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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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• Wherever we are, we are as one

  Cassandra Clare

  Better Together, Will Herondale, Wholeness

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1151, Simon and Schuster

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• Jem is nothing but goodness. That he struck you last night only shows how capable you are of driving even saints to madness.

  Cassandra Clare

  Night, Saint, Lasts

  Twitter post from Apr 25, 2011

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• Remember when you tried to convince me to feed a poultry pie to the mallards in the park to see if you could breed a race of cannibal ducks?" "They ate it too," Will reminisced. "Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck.

  Cassandra Clare

  Race, Ducks, Pie

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• He touched her as he usually touched his beloved violin, with a soft and urgent grace that left her breathless.

  Cassandra Clare

  Grace, Violin, Beloved

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.650, Simon and Schuster

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• I take your hand, brother, so that you may go in peace. Will had opened his blue eyes that never lost their colour over all the passing years, and looked at Jem and then Tessa, and smiled, and died, with Tessa's head on his shoulder and and his hand in Jem's.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Eye, Years

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• Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck.- William Herondale

  Cassandra Clare

  Ducks, Littles, Never Trust

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• And now I need you to do for me what I cannot do for myself. For you to be my eyes when I do not have them. For you to be my hands when I cannot use my own. For you to be my heart when mine is done beating.

  Cassandra Clare

  Heart, Eye, Hands

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “Clockwork Princess”, p.245, 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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• The right man won't care

  Cassandra Clare

  Men, Care, Clockwork Angel

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.444, Simon and Schuster

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• Do you remember when we stood together on Blackfriars Bridge?” he asked softly, and his eyes were like that night had been, all black and silver. “Of course I remember.” “It was the moment I first knew I loved you,” Jem said. “I will make you a promise. Every year, Tessa, on one day, I will meet you on that bridge. I will come from the Silent City and I will meet you, and we will be together, if only for an hour. But you must tell no one.

  Cassandra Clare

  Princess, Eye, Night

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.499, Simon and Schuster

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• There is more to living than not dying," he said. "Look at the way you live Will. You burn as bright as a star.

  Cassandra Clare

  Stars, Princess, Dying

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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