Clockwork Prince (The Infernal Devices, #2)

by Cassandra Clare

Will looked at him in puzzlement. “Is this a game? We just blurt out whatever word comes next to mind? In that case mine’s ‘genuphobia.’ It means an unreasonable fear of knees.”

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies. —Meng-tzu

“I would never let anyone touch a hair on your head. You know that, don’t you, Tess?”

Will stared at him. “Of course I do,” he said finally. “I had come to think I would never love anyone, but I love her.”

“I feel myself diminished, parts of me spiraling away into the darkness, that which is good and honest and true—If you hold it away from yourself long enough, do you lose it entirely? If no one cares for you at all, do you even really exist?”

The virtue of angels is that they cannot deteriorate; their flaw is that they cannot improve. Man’s flaw is that he can deteriorate; and his virtue is that he can improve. —Hasidic saying

“I meant the essay about how no man is an island. Everything you do touches others. Yet you never think about it. You behave as if you live on some sort of—of Will island, and none of your actions can have any consequences. Yet they do.”

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“I speak Spanish when I’m in a good mood,” he said. “You might as well know that about me.”

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“Whatever happens with the lessons—might I see you again?”

Hmmm