Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices Book 3)

by Cassandra Clare

“Pointless, needless suffering and pain? I don’t suppose it would help if I told you that is the way life is. The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away.”

“Perhaps, but you would not exist without a woman, would you? However little use you may find us, we are cleverer and more determined and more patient than men. Men may be stronger, but it is women who endure.”

“Most people are lucky to have even one great love in their life. You have found two.”

Our hearts, they need a mirror, Tessa. We see our better selves in the eyes of those who love us. And there is a beauty that brevity alone provides.”

There is no great secret. You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.”

Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. —Sarah Williams, “The Old Astronomer”

“Change is not loss, Will. Not always.”

she had realized that she had forgotten the precise blue of his eyes