Tessa Gray 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.

  Cassandra Clare

  Fate, Sky, Purple

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

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• Men may be stronger, but it is women who endure.

  Cassandra Clare

  Truth, Men, Stronger

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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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," 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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• We live and breathe words. It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could never love anyone, never be loved again. It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.

  Cassandra Clare

  Book, Honest, Breathe

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.468, Simon and Schuster

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• If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?

  Cassandra Clare

  World, Ifs

  Shannon Messenger, Suzanne Young, Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer, Lauren Barnholdt (2013). “Get a Taste of Pulseit!: Free Pulseit eSampler”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• It is not easy to be different, and even less so to be unique.

  Cassandra Clare

  Unique, Different, Easy

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.537, Simon and Schuster

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• You kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire. He had wondered once why love was always phrased in terms of burning. The conflagration in his own veins, now, gave the answer.

  Cassandra Clare

  Fire, Ashes, Burning

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.

  Cassandra Clare

  Book, Love At First Sight, Honest

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.468, Simon and Schuster

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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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• You are not the last dream of my soul. You are the first dream, the only dream I ever was unable to stop myself from dreaming. You are the first dream of my soul, and from that dream I hope will come all other dreams, a lifetime’s worth.

  Cassandra Clare

  Dream, Soul, Lasts

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.524, Simon and Schuster

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• I know how you are with your words, and, Will- I love all of them. Every word you say. The silly ones, the mad ones, the beautiful ones, and the ones that are only for me. I love them, and I love you." - Tessa Gray

  Cassandra Clare

  Beautiful, Silly, Princess

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• Tess, Tess, Tessa. Was there ever a more beautiful sound than your name? To speak it aloud makes my heart ring like a bell. Strange to imagine that, isn’t it—a heart ringing? But when you touch me, that is what it is like, as if my heart is ringing in my chest and the sound shivers down my veins and splinters my bones with joy.

  Cassandra Clare

  Beautiful, Heart, Names

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.523, Simon and Schuster

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• Clary,” Jocelyn said. “I want you to meet Tessa Gray.

  Cassandra Clare

  Want, Said, Gray

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• You know that feeling,” she said, “when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel the cold and darkness coming, see the net drawing tight around the characters who live and breathe on the pages. But you are tied to the story as if being dragged behind a carriage and you cannot let go or turn the course aside.” His blue eyes were dark with understanding — of course Will would understand.

  Cassandra Clare

  Letting Go, Reading, Book

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• And what colour do you suppose the inner depths of your soul are, Will Herondale?' 'Mauve,' said Will.

  Cassandra Clare

  Soul, Depth, Said

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• Marry me," he said. "Marry me, Tess. Marry me and be Tessa Herondale. Or be Tessa Gray, or be whatever you wish to call yourself, but marry me and stay with me and never leave me, for I cannot bear another day of my life to go by that does not have you in it.

  Cassandra Clare

  Wish, Doe, Another Day

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.539, Simon and Schuster

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• It's too late," she said. "Don't say that." His voice was half a whisper. "I love you, Tessa. I love you.

  Cassandra Clare

  Love You, Voice, Too Late

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.468, 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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• Do not seek revenge and call it justice.

  Cassandra Clare

  Revenge, Justice

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.385, Simon and Schuster

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• If you do not help me," Tessa said to Jem, "I swear, I will change into you, and I will lift him myself. And then everyone here will see what you look like in a dress." She fixed him with a look. "Do you understand?

  Cassandra Clare

  Dresses, Looks, Helping

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• 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

  Princess, Heart, Looks

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1306, 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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• Trains are great dirty smoky things," said Will. "You won't like it." Tessa was unmoved. "I won't know if I like it until I try it, will I?" "I've never swum naked in the Thames before, but I know I wouldn't like it." "But think how entertaining for sightseers," said Tessa, and she saw Jem duck his head to hide the quick flash of his grin.

  Cassandra Clare

  Dirty, Thinking, Ducks

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Prince”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• I am not the one of us who has no heart.

  Cassandra Clare

  Heart, Clockwork Prince, Will Herondale

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