Clockwork Prince (The Infernal Devices, #2)

by Cassandra Clare

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

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?

“Was it an egg?” Henry inquired.

But all these were things he could not want, because they were things he could not have, and wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness.