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He wanted to run to her, wrap her in his arms. Protect her. But it was Jem's place to do those things, not his. Not his. -Will Herondale
— Cassandra Clare
One can love two children. But your heart can be given romantic love to only a single other, said Woolsey.
— Cassandra Clare
The course of the seasons is a piece of clockwork, with a cuckoo to call when it is spring.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
I do not believe you can threaten people into goodness. - Jem Carstairs
— Cassandra Clare
And yet, in a sense, in choosing to be deprived of the ability to make an ethical choice, you have in a sense really chosen the good.
— Anthony Burgess
Is this one of those days where we all stalk out in fury? Because I simply haven't got the energy for it.
— Cassandra Clare
Steel under silk
— Cassandra Clare
And the gold of her ruined wedding dress.
— Cassandra Clare
If there is a life after this one, he said, let me meet you in it, James Carstairs.
— Cassandra Clare
When Will truly wants something," said Jem, quietly, "when he feels something - he can break your heart.
— Cassandra Clare
Sooner or later, clockwork requires each piece to accept its nature or break. Hearts are no different.
— Robert Appleton
Perhaps it is not such a bad thing to be set apart.
— Cassandra Clare
It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.
— Cassandra Clare
Achilles was murdered with a poisoned arrow, and Jason died alone, killed by his own rotting ship. Such is the fate of heroes.
— Cassandra Clare
There's no rule that says you have to make records constantly, like clockwork, to continue being who you are.
— Daron Malakian
Mortality, behold, and fear,What a change of flesh is here!
Think how many royal bones
Sleep within this heap of stones, — Cassandra Clare
The evidence all points to the fact that we occupy not a well-mannered clockwork universe, but a destructive, violent, and hostile zoo.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
For that was love, wasnt itto burn bright in someone else's eyes? — Cassandra Clare
The Law is hard," said Charlotte, "but it is the Law.
— Cassandra Clare
A very magnanimous statement, Gideon," said Magnus."I'm Gabriel."
Magnus waved a hand. "All Lightwoods look the same to me. — Cassandra Clare
He touched her as he would touch his violin: it was how he knew to touch something that was precious and loved.
— Cassandra Clare
Look well on this, my son," said the green-skinned man, "for one day I shall rule a clockwork kingdom of such beings, and you shall be its prince.
— Cassandra Clare
It is not easy to be different, and even less so to be unique.
— Cassandra Clare
Not all that is mortal is useless.
— Cassandra Clare
Words have the power to change us." - Tessa Gray
— Cassandra Clare
I am not the one of us who has no heart.
— Cassandra Clare
It was like the calm just as one engaged in battle, Will thought, when thought fled and inevitability took over.
— Cassandra Clare
Your angel cannot protect you against that which neither god nor the devil had made
— Cassandra Clare
Jem cried out with all his remaining strength. You cannot go where I am going! Nor would I want that for you!
— Cassandra Clare
Sometimes, when I have to do something I don't want to do, I pretend I'm a character from a book. It's easier to know what they would do.
— Cassandra Clare
Like what you see?
— Cassandra Clare
I need someone who can keep up with me, not some sickly creature that looks as if he's doddering off to the grave.
— Cassandra Clare
I would rather insult you than lose you, he said, and before any of them could make a move to stop him, he cast both items into the fire.
— Cassandra Clare
For five years it had been his absolute truth. Jem and Will. Will and Jem. Will Herondale lives, therefore Jem Carstairs lives also.
— Cassandra Clare
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
Few can claim a single angel who guards them. But you can.
— Cassandra Clare
When we're healthy we respond to the presence of the hateful with fear and nausea.
— Anthony Burgess
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.
— Cassandra Claire
Tessa touched his wrist lightly with her hand. "Be brave," she said. "It's not a duck, is it?
— Cassandra Clare
Wo men shi jie bai xiong di-we are more than brothers, Will.
— Cassandra Clare
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
The movies I cannot go without and that I watch annually are 'A Clockwork Orange,' 'Scarface' and 'Fantasia.'
— Nicolas Cage
A land of brass and steel and clockwork, of steam airships, cogs that turned and wheels that spun.
— Emma Trevayne
You may choose your friends, but not your unlikely saviors, Magnus said cheerfully.
— Cassandra Clare
My darling, you are indisposed! You must remain abed for the next eight months. Little Buford - ""I am NOT naming our child Buford ... — Cassandra Clare
You're seventeen," Magnus said. "You can't have wasted a life you've barely lived.
— Cassandra Clare
Change is not always accomplished peacefully, but that does not make it disadventageous.
— Cassandra Clare
They lay there for a few seconds, in the dark, in the future, listening to the fabulous clockwork of their hearts and lungs, and loving each other
— Michael Chabon
I was fantastically well versed by the time I left school. I had a teacher who put 'A Clockwork Orange' my way, and 'Catcher in the Rye.'
— Kenneth Cranham
Never trust a duck.
— Cassandra Clare
And those hard slovos, brothers, were like the beginning of my freedom.
— Anthony Burgess
For love is as strong as death.
— Cassandra Clare
We are not our parents, Gabriel. We do not have to carry the burden of their choices or their sins.
— Cassandra Clare
A Clockwork Orange is too didactic to be artistic. It is not the novelist's job to preach; it is his job to show.
— Anthony Burgess
A clockwork heart can't replace the real thing.
— Dru Pagliassotti
The minds of small children are more interested in clockwork trains, jumping in puddles and other important childhood endeavours.
— Maxwell Grantly
He had been wrong. But he was wrong so often, what was one more time?
— Cassandra Clare
Our souls are knit. We are one person, James.
— Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Vendetta is not steampunk; it is steamfun. I can't take myself so seriously as to write something truly punk in the true sense of the word.
— Gabbo De La Parra
The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away.
— Cassandra Clare
That August, Elodie Selkirk became the latest lady in Paris to order a coin-operated boy.
— Kirsty Logan
I have lost everything. Lost everything.Everything. - William Herondale — Cassandra Clare
It's a painful thing to look inside yourself and see the whys and the hows of your clockwork.
— Tarryn Fisher
You were not put on this Earth just to get in touch with god
— Anthony Burgess
Perhaps not," said Will, who had ears like a bat's. "But I would make a radiant bride.
— Cassandra Clare
I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things
— Guillermo Del Toro
Their beauty had always seemed to him like the beauty of pressed flowers-lovely, but dead.
— Cassandra Clare
You got shook and shook till there was nothing left. You lost your name and your body and your self and you just didn't care.
— Anthony Burgess
I played it for my bride, and one day you will play for yours.
— Cassandra Clare
The light that burned twice as bright burned half as long.
— Cassandra Clare
The queen of crime, Agatha Christie, was always more concerned about the clockwork cleverness of the plot, never the investigator.
— Christopher Fowler
You can viddy that everything in this wicked world counts. You can pony that one thing always leads to another. Right right right.
— Anthony Burgess
Clockwork, Nanny thought. Once you know about clockwork, you know about everything.
— Terry Pratchett
Somewhere, deep within her, surfaces a tiny clockwork submarine. There are times when you can only take the next step. And then another.
— William Gibson
I am not anybody's, Will. My heart is my own.
— Cassandra Clare
Any clock that can track this sideral schedule proves itself as perfect as God's magnificent clockwork.Dava Sobel — Dava Sobel
The intention to act violently is accompanied by strong feelings of physical distress.
— Anthony Burgess
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
If the marriage were valid, she'd be your sister-in-law.
— Cassandra Clare
There ain't a man in the world cares about a woman's past until he's thinking of her in his future.
— Dru Pagliassotti
Her throat ached: adoration, heartbreak, in equal measure. "Kiss me," she said. "Please.
— Cassandra Clare
Henry's breath hissed out through his teeth. That ba-bad man, he finished, with a quick glance at Cecily, who rolled her eyes.
— Cassandra Clare
But I will never have a bride.
— Cassandra Clare
Life was an uncertain thing.
— Cassandra Clare