Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices Book 3)

by Cassandra Clare

Every night we sit down to a dinner of gruel as she sits at table dripping with gems and gewgaws.

Yall are doing too much now, im screaming

He was beginning to suspect that behind his brother’s dour facade lay an unsung comic genius.

Katana blades from Japan, double-handed broadswords, thin-bladed misericords, morning stars and maces, curved Turkish blades, crossbows and slingshots

Will had explained to her that the way to hold a two-handed sword was just below the rib cage,

I hate two handed swords in botw

The weight of the sword in her hand was comforting, almost as if it served as a barrier between herself and her feelings.

“Not you. Gabriel Lightworm over here.” Will jerked his chin toward the other boy. “Sorry. Lightwood.”

NOT GABRIEL LIGHTWORM IM IN STITCHES

He had looked up as the door had opened and, as he always did, had seemed to glow a little brighter when he saw Will.

This is so precious

Cecily had never been able to decide if he did this because he was perpetually cold or because he thought he looked dashing standing before the leaping flames.

Def the latter lmao

Not only was he marrying the girl Will loved, but when he himself died, she feared, Will would never recover.

:(

The tension between Will, Jem, and Tessa felt like a powder keg that needed only a match to blow it to kingdom come.

“I would rather insult you than lose you,” he said,

:(

Will’s hands were scarlet, livid white where blisters were already forming on the skin, and patched black with soot.

Why am i abt to cry

His breath was hitching and harsh in Cecily’s ear—gasps of pain, the way he had sounded when he’d fallen off the roof of their house when he was nine

Ughhh

“Will,” Jem said, half under his breath. “Will, I’m so sorry, I’m so sorry. Will—”

with Jem and Cecily and Charlotte, to be surrounded by their affection, but without her there would always be something missing,

a Tessa-shaped part chiseled out of his heart that he would never get back.

“Do you remember the sea?” he said, exhaustion making his voice heavy. “The lake at Tal-y-Llyn? There is nothing so blue here in London as either of those things.”

He heard Cecily take a sharp breath. “Of course I remember. I thought you did not.”

So much of Will's heart makes me so sad

I care neither about her manner of dress nor about your daily menu.

Dick

You call it hope—that fire of fire! It is but agony of desire. —Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”

I like to go back and read these when I'm done with the chapter

She hadn’t been able to bear it. They had been in agony, both of them, and she loved them both. Their pain had been because of her—

Same

She was the cause of Jem’s yin fen being gone, and Will’s misery.

How could three people who cared for one another so much cause one another so much pain?

They were all honorable. If they had not been, she thought, looking down at her hands, perhaps everything would not be so awful.

“Zhe shi jie shang, wo shi zui ai ne de,” he whispered. She understood it. In all the world, you are what I love the most.

“I wrote something for you,” he corrected with a smile, and began to play.

"anyway, here’s Wonderwall…"

The melody rolled over her, as cool and sweet as water, as hopeful and lovely as sunrise.

bow moved faster, Jem’s forearm sawing back and forth, his slim body seeming to blur into motion from the shoulder.

every second im like is Jem gonna die here? Is this okay for Jems health?

Tessa was aware that her face was wet, but only when the last of the music had faded away and he had lowered the violin did she realize she had been crying.

“It was like I saw your soul in the notes of the music. And it was beautiful.”

“I saw rivers, boats like flowers, all the colors of the night sky.”

“That is a rare magic,” he said. He leaned his head against her, his temple against her knee, and she kept up the stroking of his hair, carding her fingers through its softness.

I love that this is a common way Jem sits with someone he loves, he always sits below tham and leans against their leg or lies in their lap… i think Will does that too or am i wrong

“People still use the expression ‘zhi yin’ to mean ‘close friends’ or ‘soul mates,’ but what it really means is ‘understanding music.’ ”

“When I played, you saw what I saw. You understand my music.”

“Every heart has its own melody,” he said. “You know mine.”

Jem’s smile was sad. “Zhong Ziqi died, and Yu Boya played his last song over his friend’s grave. Then he broke his qin and never played again.”

Parallels to Will and Jem i fear

Our hearts, they need a mirror, Tessa. We see our better selves in the eyes of those who love us.

Oh my goddddd wtf it just felt like someone shot their hand through my chest and ripped my heart out Killua style

thoughts ghosted back to Will, to the way he had put his hands in the fire to save Jem’s drugs,

she could not help but remember that day in the drawing room when he had told her he loved her,

when he had left, she had closed her hand around a poker, that the burning pain of it against her skin might shut out, even for a moment, the pain in her heart.

FuckkkkkkkkkkWHY WOULD U WANT TO HURT HIM MORE

And if there was some part of her heart that belonged to Will and Will alone,

I’m getting that ouabh ache in my chest rn

She believed that. He could not love her forever.

That is the least true thing in the world

He was so thin, his spine sharp under her touch. Against the firelight she could see him painted in shadow and fire,

These descriptions are eating

Tessa thought of the delicate rapport they had begun to build between them over the past few days and wondered if this would destroy it,

Yeah i dont know why you would do something so hurtful

“To marry a girl just to make her a widow,” said Gabriel Lightwood. “Many would say that was not a kindness.”

I mean honestly, i think he was selfish when he asked

The words were encouraging, but there was something in his voice, something dead that frightened her.

My heart is breaking

And yet when you walk that aisle to meet him and join yourselves forever you will walk an invisible path of the shards of my heart, Tessa.

FUCKKKKKK I’m only 30 % in and I’m suffering immensely, i don’t know what I’m gonna be dealing w for the remainder of the book

I thought perhaps that when you told me you did not love me that my own feelings would fall away and atrophy, but they have not.

They have grown every day. I love you now more desperately, this moment, than I have ever loved you before, and in an hour I will love you more than that.

“I have expected everything of you, Will,” she whispered. “More than you ever expected of yourself. But you have given even more than that.”