Clockwork Prince (The Infernal Devices, #2)
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“No,” Will said, a little desperation in his voice. “I was looking for the opposite, really—something that might put an end to being in love.” “An ’atred potion?”
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Will, looking after her, sighed. “Not for her,” he said under his breath, though there was no one to hear him, “for me . .
Ariel
WILLIAM D':
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But Jem was always there.
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Jem is such a sweetie
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She had even found herself laughing. And she had Jem to thank for it.
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“Will. Decided to grace us with your presence after all?”
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Lmaooo not him just spitting poetry in the shadows
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but he was not hers; he was not anybody’s. Something in him was broken, and through that break spilled a blind cruelty, a need to hurt and to push away.
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Up close Tessa could see that he looked tired. His eyes were rimmed with red, the shadows beneath them nearly purple.
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Babe hes trying to find witchcraft that’ll make him stop loving you
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Tessa, nearly trapping her skirts; she pulled them away only just in time, and stepped backward quickly, turning around in what was a near pitch-darkness. “Jem?”
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I LOVE LOVE how its Jem she called out for, she adores and trusts him so much and i hope Will is jelly
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same motif, repeated over and over, of an angel rising in burning fire from a lake, carrying a sword in one hand and a cup in the other.
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“Convenient,” muttered Benedict, almost too low to be heard, but Tessa heard it, and flushed.
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Benedict is so fking suss fam
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I believe a woman cannot run an Institute; women do not think with logic and discretion but with the emotions of the heart.
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Says man who allows his emotions to take over and say this and his dammed son too
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but a man would not have been fooled by a flimsy spy like Nathaniel Gray—”
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Get this man a MUZZLE
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“No,” said the Consul.
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I thought i wouldn’t like him but i do
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Henry . . .” He cleared his throat. “HENRY.” Henry looked up, blinking. “Yes, darling?” He blinked again, looking around. “Where’s Charlotte?”
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hahahaha
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You opened a Pyxis and released a demon. It cursed you. You want me to find that demon and see if it will remove the curse. And that is all you can tell me?”
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“I will probably be reborn as a slug that someone salts.”
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I meannnn
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Tessa. Tessa, Tessa, Tessa. Her name rang in Will’s mind like the chime of a bell; he wondered if any other name on earth had such an inescapable resonance to it.
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“And you’ll be glad of it; it’s always useful for a beautiful girl to be able to fend off the unwanted attentions of gentlemen.”
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Tessa looked away hastily and caught Will watching them both, his blue eyes level and dark.
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It was Jem’s idea, anyway, wasn’t it?” Will frowned, but said nothing;
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Your jealous but its your fault so
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“It’s a request for recompense,” said Will, ignoring the fact that she had addressed her question to Jem.
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HE'S SO BLOODY JEALOUS
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“Each spake words of high disdain, And insult to his heart’s best brother—”   “Oh, by the Angel, Will, do be quiet,” said Charlotte, standing up.
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Lmaooo
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The moment passed, and a look of puzzlement crossed his face. “Blast it, I can’t remember what I was going to say,” he announced, and vanished into the kitchen.
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Henry is so innocent i love him
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And indeed Will was on it, like a spider leaping onto a particularly tasty fly. “Mr. Herondale?” he demanded. “Tessa, I thought . . .?”
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I feel so bad but also you deserve it
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he would bring you to misery, bring you to sorrow and repentance, blight you, disgrace you, pull you down with him—’”
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“Mnemosyne,”
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Isnt his one of the nine muses or am i wrong
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He was looking at the ground, his dark hair hiding his face. A little bit of her heart softened, and before she could stop herself, she said, “And good night, Will.”
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These two are HURTING MY FEELINGS
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Friendship is one mind in two bodies. —Meng-tzu
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“You could ride up to Yorkshire and chop that old goat’s head off.” Charlotte sounded mutinous.
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Lmaoo
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“Yes,” she said, knowing how much her calm demeanor drove him mad. “I should like to ride in one, very much.”
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hahahaa
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“The only alternative seems to be doing nothing, dearest Charlotte,” he said. “And doing nothing, I find, rarely accomplishes anything. Besides, what could go wrong?”
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Henry is trying so hard to be a good hubby i adore him so mucho
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Why these odd, small kindnesses in the dark, the talk about books, and the coldness the rest of the time?
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yes WhY Will
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Tessa burst out laughing, then clapped a hand over her mouth. Drat Will, for always being able to make her laugh, even when she didn’t want to,
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I LOVE THEM SO
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Tessa as she made her way through the crowd, clutching at Jem with one hand and Jessamine’s hat with the other.
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Aww
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“No,” she said. “I haven’t come across anything I particularly wanted to read lately.” Will’s jaw set, but he said nothing.
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TESSA PLEASE
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“Patriotic?” Will looked smug. “I’ll tell you what’s patriotic,” he said. “In honor of my birthplace, I’ve the dragon of Wales tattooed on my—”
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WILLIAM I CANNOT
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“I shall charm him with such force that when I am done, he will be left lying limply on the ground, trying to remember his own name.”
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He is so funny and per cosa?!
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“They’re not hideous,” said Tessa. Will blinked at her. “What?” “Gideon and Gabriel,” said Tessa. “They’re really quite good-looking, not hideous at all.”
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DEAD
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“And what color do you suppose the inner depths of your soul are, Will Herondale?” “Mauve,” said Will.
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This man never stops lmaooo
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Perhaps she’s a girl who’s fallen madly in love with me and persists in following me wherever I go.” “My talent is shape-shifting, Will, not acting,” said Tessa,
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Broooo
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“It is. Unless the Mortal Cup is used to turn that mundane into a Shadowhunter.
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He turned to Will. “What do you think?” “It seems as fine an idea as any.” Will was still looking out the window;
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Oh hes MAD MAD
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Jem made a spluttering noise. Will’s lambent blue eyes widened. “Read each other’s minds? Horrors, no.”
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But those who do can draw on the strength of their parabatai in battle.
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Now, of course warlocks are barren—” Will shifted uncomfortably in his seat, his eyes slanting away from Tessa’s.
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John Shade, was in possession of the Book of the White. Quite a powerful spell book, you understand; disappeared from the London Institute’s library under suspicious circumstances back in 1752.
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book specializes in binding and unbinding spells—tying
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Turned out the warlock was trying to animate things. He was digging up corpses or buying them off medical students and replacing t...
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Necromancy—very much again...
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And the remains of warlocks. Mummified taloned hands, like Mrs. Black’s.
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I have a feeling bruv knows she may be part warlock
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