Clockwork Prince (The Infernal Devices, #2)

by Cassandra Clare

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

Will tried to pull his arm away. “If Cecily’s there, then the rest of them—my family—they must be there as well.”

Interesting

his gaze met hers across the clearing. Something in it made her look away. Agony stripped so raw was not meant for her eyes.

“I thought . . . I thought that your sister was dead.” Will drew his gaze from the window and looked at them both. When he smiled, it was ghastly. “My sister is dead,” he said.

Wtf

“Last night—” You were kind to me, she was going to say. Thank you. The glare from his blue eyes stabbed through her. “There was no last night,” he said through his teeth.

Ughhhh

“That’s all right,” he said in a low voice. “I like the way it looks on you.”

OPPPP

“I want you to send me through. To the demon realms.” Magnus choked. “You want me to do what?”

Jesus Cristo Will

Every day dawns blacker and blacker, and I will lose her forever if you—”

“But you love her.” 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.”

MY BABY INFANT SIZED BABY HEART

‘I curse you,’ it said. ‘All who love you will die. Their love will be their destruction.

She was swelled up, greenish-black like something had rotted her from inside. She didn’t look like my sister anymore. She didn’t look human anymore.

“But this is different. He saw his family, or his sister at least. Oh, poor Will.” Charlotte’s voice shook with anxiety.

Will, everyone here loves you like get real

“When Will truly wants something,” said Jem quietly, “when he feels something, he can break your heart.”

“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?”

BAby finna make me cry fam

“You are in love and you think that is all there is in the world. But the world is bigger than you, Will, and may have need of you. You are a Shadowhunter. You serve a greater cause. Your life is not yours to throw away.”

Magnus you are being so insensitive though i dont want you to let him go to the demon realm

The man laughed, and set the boy down on the ground, ruffling his hair. “My little clockwork prince . . .”

She looked down and saw a white shape gazing up at her from the stony courtyard below. A face, twisted but recognizable. Mrs. Dark.

Opppp

Must I be born with so little art As to love a man who’ll break my heart?” Tessa pushed her chair back from the table. “I think I had better go and get dressed.”

Lmaooo Tessa like im not doing this shit today fam

copy of Vathek Will had given her. It did not bring the thought of Will smiling to her mind, but other images of Will—Will bending over her in the Sanctuary, covered in blood;

:(

Will rolling down the hill in Yorkshire with Jem, splattering himself with mud and not caring; Will falling off the table in the dining room; Will holding her in the dark. Will, Will, Will.

This shit is breaking my heart so bad

She could not forget the look on his face as he had gazed at his sister.

“Hmph,” she said. “I’d like to see you learn how to manage sitting and standing up straight in stays and petticoats and a dress with a foot’s worth of train!”

Go off queen!!

“So would I,” said Gideon from across the room.

WE STAND GIDEON IN THIS HOUSEHOLD

good in him, as I do, Miss Gray, and that is why I humbly address my letter to you— Your servant, Magnus Bane

MAGNUS THE MAN YOU ARE

“I felt it. Here.” He put his hand over his chest.

Jemm my sweetie, hes so worried about Will

“I’m sorry—” “No. Don’t be. I like the sound of it on your lips.”

Oh my god Jem, now is not the time

“This,” he said, “is Will’s room.” “Gracious,” Tessa said. “I’ve never been in here. I was starting to imagine he slept upside down, like a bat.”

I cannot lmao

everywhere books—books on the side tables, books on the bed, books in stacks on the floor, books double-lined in shelves along the walls.

This is so dorian coded

I feel myself dissolving, vanishing into nothingness, for if there is no one in the world who cares for you, do you really exist at all?

I COULD LITERALLY CRY WILL QUOTED HER BEFORE

“He wants me to pay for his drugs.” Jem’s voice was stiff. “Come. We’ll get him to the carriage, and I’ll come back with the money.”

Jfc Will is strung out rn

Jem looked back at him. “God damn you,” he said, and hit Will across the face, sending him spinning.

DAMN

help but feel he did the things he did not because he loved himself too much but because he hated himself. And she did not know why.

This makes me so sad holy shit

“You cannot buy or drug or dream your way out of pain.” His hand tightened over hers.

“What does any of it matter? I’m dying. I won’t outlast the decade. What does it matter if the violin goes before I do?”

God this book is fucking tragic

and the one person I trusted more than any other made sport of what is killing me.”

:(

“Jem, what is it? You don’t want me to touch you?” “Not like that,” he flared, and then flushed even darker than before.

This was Jem—her friend, as steady and reliable as a heartbeat. Jem did not set her skin on fire or make the blood rush fast inside her veins until she was dizzy.

She reached up and touched his cheek, so close to hers, and then the fragile skin of his throat, where the blood beat hard beneath the surface.

I caanot believe shes going through with this, i get it but also im bloody sad about Will

woken up with what they call a Monday mouse,” he said, pointing at the bruised skin under his eye. “Any idea where I got it?” “None.”

Lmao

“Say that again,” said Will, “and I’ll darken your daylights for you.”

God i love him

There was a crack, like the sound of a rifle shot, and Gabriel fell silent. Sophie had slapped him across the face.

DAMNNNN SOPH WHAT DA FUQ I LOVE HER

But Sophie was looking anxiously up at Gideon. “I’m so sorry, sir,” she said. “There’s no excuse—I lost my head, and I—” “It was a well-placed blow,” Gideon said calmly. “I see you’ve been paying attention to my training.”

WE LoVE GIDEON

and you holding me. I knew it was you. You always smell of lavender.”

I love lavender too girli pop

“I meant the essay about how no man is an island. Everything you do touches others. Yet you never think about it.

They are so fuckin smart

What were you thinking?” “But it had nothing to do with Jem at all—” “You didn’t think about him,” said Tessa. “But perhaps you should have.

Honestly Tessa such a baddie for this

“I do care what other people think,” he said with a surprising intensity, staring into the flames. “It’s all I think about—what others think, what they feel about me, and I about them; it drives me mad. I wanted escape—”

“Tess,” he said. “That is all I think about. I never look at you without thinking about what you feel about me and fearing—”

:/

He turned toward Sophie, who was suddenly acutely aware of the largeness of the room, and how small she felt inside it. “Shall we continue with the training?”

I like these new sophie POVs i kinda love her

“I am. I was pleasantly surprised the first time I came here, and again so the next time and the next. I found that I was looking forward to it. In fact, it would be fair to say that since my return home, I have hated everything in London except these hours here, with you.”

Opppppp CUPID AND HIS EXPERT PRECISION

Though, where with Jem she had felt safe, with Gideon she felt an excitement like lightning that coursed up and down her veins, shocking her. And yet she did not want to let it go.