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If it happens every year like clockwork, what's so extraordinary about it? — Charlie Munger

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

I really wanted to write the way Kubrick makes films - 'Strangelove,' '2001', 'Clockwork Orange', 'Barry Lyndon' - they're all so different. — Philip Kerr

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

You serve a greater cause. Your life is not yours to throw away (Magnus Bane) — 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 it
to 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

When to people tell the same lie ... "
"They are working together," Will finished — 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

Tessa could not remember a time when she had not loved the clockwork angel. — Cassandra Clare

He had lost Will Herondale. And he did not know if he could ever get him back. — 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

Every university in America teaches 'Clockwork Orange.' I get fed up with it. — Malcolm McDowell

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

Well, everything's a lesson, isn't it? Learning all the time, as you could say. — Anthony Burgess

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

Wasn't it? Is loyalty still a commendable quality when it is misdirected? — 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

Do you really wish to disobey me, Marbas? Do you wish to anger my father? — Cassandra Clare

Sometimes movie-making happens like clockwork; other times, like a car accident. — Eric Roberts

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

Do reasons matter when there's nothing that can be done to change things. — 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

The entire universe can be compared to a clockwork with wheels that engage with each other and which are interdependent with each other. — Franz Bardon

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

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

I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker. — Voltaire

I would say inhuman. But your kind perfected the clockwork of murder long ago. — Amie Kaufman

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