Clockwork Princess Quotes
"Marry on Monday for health, Tuesday for wealth, Wednesday the best day of all, Thursday for crosses, Friday for losses, and Saturday for no luck at all." — Folk rhyme
"When December snows fall fast, marry, and true love will last."
"It is your wedding day, Tessa. If there is ever an excuse for excessive adornment, it is that."
"There is no such thing as perfect, Tessa."
"You fear for Jem. Yes, and I fear for you, too."
"Sometimes one must choose whether to be kind or honorable. Sometimes one cannot be both."
"There is more to living than not dying."
"For to be wise and love exceeds man's might." — Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida
"You cannot reduce the situation to worm jokes, Will. This is Gabriel and Gideon’s father we’re discussing."
"I do not want to sit by while tragedy comes for us. I would turn it aside, only I struggle to discover how that might be done."
"I am not going to live, and I can choose to be as much for her as I can be, to burn as brightly for her as I wish, and for a shorter time, than to burden her with someone only half-alive for a longer time."
"When did you become reckless and I cautious? Since when have I had to guard you from yourself?"
"Dying a little faster for love. And there are worse things to die for."
"I cannot ask you to do something that goes against your conscience."
"I’ll do as much for my sweetheart as any young woman may; I’ll sit and mourn at his graveside a twelve-month and a day."
"Let Love clasp Grief lest both be drown’d, let darkness keep her raven gloss."
"Did you think I did not know you had a secret?"
"Our hearts, they need a mirror, Tessa. We see our better selves in the eyes of those who love us."
"Despite the horror of the situation, Gabriel felt a flash of satisfaction at knowing something his brother hadn’t known."
"Every heart has its own melody. You know mine."
"We have honor, we are Nephilim. If he takes that, we truly have nothing."
"I was wrong about our father. I believed in him, and I should not have."
"I would give over my own life for either of yours."
"I want to be married to you. I would wait for you forever, but—"
"It is a very strange thing, to be in love. It changes you."
"You are not hated, Jessamine. Whatever world lies beyond this one, do not go to it thinking that."
He went off after Tessa," said Cecily. "What do you mean?
"I will not cooperate in harming the Shadowhunters. I would die or be tortured first."
"Being a Shadowhunter was all I ever wanted."
"It is not ugly. It is just another beautiful part of the most beautiful girl I have ever seen."
"I would have liked to see the baby." - Aloysius Starkweather
"What strength I have is yours." - Jem Carstairs
"You are completely immured behind it." - Mortmain
"We are bound, you and I, over the divide of death, down through whatever generations may come. Forever." - Will Herondale
"You will be a wonderful mother." - Jem Carstairs
"He wasn’t a man, he was an Unseelie Court faerie." - Gabriel Lightwood
"He had no business showing images like that to a lady." - Gabriel Lightwood
"I am glad I did not have to wait until the end." - Jem Carstairs
"I command the armies of the Shadowhunters, madam, not yourself." - Consul Josiah Wayland
"You are half-Shadowhunter, half-demon. That is the first thing you should know."
"He was a Greater Demon, if that comforts you. Most of them were angels once."
"You will never understand. You say that you build, that you invent, but I know an inventor—Henry Branwell—and you are nothing like him. He brings things to life; you just destroy."
"Your clockwork angel protects your life, but the lives of other innocents are in my hands—in your hands. Do not test me, and there will not be a second such village."
"For this alone on Death I wreak. The wrath that garners in my heart: He put our lives so far apart. We cannot hear each other speak."
"Now I will burn you back, I will burn you through, Though I am damned for it we two will lie And burn."
"But why would you do that? Life is a gift."
"I have created an army. An army that, once the final piece of the puzzle is in place, will be invincible."
"I cannot imagine how you came to find me, how difficult it must have been. It is incredible."
"You are not the one to blame. You did not imprison me. Our spirits are bound, it is true, but even as I protected you in the womb, I knew you were blameless."
"The bond between us being severed. It was as if a great pair of scissors had cut my heart in half."
"You were always half his heart as well."
"He was never as happy as when he was with you."
"I would not have left him. I would have stayed with him if he had asked, until he died."
"I am well punished for that hubris, at any rate."
"You are a good man, one of the best I’ve ever known."
"I am—I am catastrophically in love with you."
"My heart is my own. It is beyond you to control it."
"There are so many worse things than death."
"An honorable death—I have always wanted that."
"I can choose to be as much for her as I can be, to burn as brightly for her as I wish."
"For this I would have been damned forever. For this I would have given up everything."
"Dw i’n dy garu di am byth. I love you. Always."
"The Infernal Devices are without pity. The Infernal Devices are without regret. The Infernal Devices are without number. The Infernal Devices will never stop coming."
"Bring me my bow of burning gold: Bring me my arrows of desire: Bring me my spear: O clouds unfold! Bring me my chariot of fire!"
"Soul may divide from body, but not we One from another."
"I would read them together with you, as many as I can, before I die."
"Life is a book, and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read."
"Your words have changed me, Tess; they have made me a better man than I would have been otherwise."
"You are that for me. I love you, and I will only ever love you until I die."
"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."
"Marry me, Tess. Marry me and be Tessa Herondale."
"What you are, what you can do, it is like some great miracle of the earth, like fire or wildflowers or the breadth of the sea."
I am trying to court you," Will said in exasperation. "Court you properly. That's what all this has been about. You know that, don't you?
"I am not a Londoner, Will. I have been stopping with Woolsey for some time, but his home is not my home, and Woolsey and I wear out each other's company after not much duration."
"Alas, my love, ye do me wrong. To cast me off discourteously."