Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices Book 3)

by Cassandra Clare

“They say you cannot divide your heart, and yet—”

Oopsie omgggg

“Will! Tessa!” It was Charlotte’s voice, calling up to them from the entryway. “Do stop dawdling!

Charlotte respectfully no one gives a fuck that Jessie is back after betraying everyone like wtf

What had she almost done? What had she nearly told Will? And yet I love you.

AT last were not pretending anymore

Someone else to love. She stepped out onto the front stairs of the Institute, feeling the wind cut through her dress like a knife.

Listen i KNOW she loves Jem but i cant imagine her reacting in this way to the thought of Jem choosing to be with someone else for some reason

She felt sick at the heart and knew it was not the cold. It was the idea of Will in love with someone else.

Yep like it almost feels like shes makin the wedding sooner becaue sh thinks it will stop her feelings for Will. Its like shes using Jem for that

“An escort,” said Gabriel. “Perhaps the Silent Brothers are worried she will try to escape.” “No,” said Charlotte, bewilderment shading her voice. “She wouldn’t—”

Mortmain?

about the horses drawing the second carriage: their bodies gleamed not like the pelts of animals but like metal, and their movements were unnaturally swift.

Automations yall

The liquid ore he drained

Highlighting because liquid ore is a good term for something in my book MOVE ALONG NOTHING TO SEE HERE

—John Milton, Paradise Lost

Funny that i just started to reread PL bc its a fave and now theres a quote in here

Silent Brothers, Tessa saw with a frozen shock, bled as red as any mortal man did.

For the record im also shocked

ragged white dress Tessa had seen her in when she had visited her in the Silent City, and her lovely blond hair was shorn close to her skull like a fever patient’s.

DAMN

tip of Jem’s sword-cane, heard the murmur of Latin as seraph blades blazed up around her like a circle of holy fire.

Dope

She heard Jem call her name, and realized she had no weapon. She had not planned to train today.

You should always have one tho you're most wanted

They moved more swiftly, with less jerking to their steps, their copper joints folding and unfolding smoothly.

HEs had ample time to tinker them whilst yall were fucking around

Charlotte’s whip flashed through the air like lightning, slicing the crossbow arm from the first automaton.

Shes fking preggers

The blade fell, shearing away the creature’s second arm. This time blackish fluid jetted from the wound.

Why do I feel like Mortmain makes them bleed motor oil for dramatics

Charlotte yanked her wrist back, and the head, sheared away, fell to the side;

Char char fighting with an electric whip while preg is so baddie

as familiar and horrible as a recurring nightmare. “Hello, Miss Gray,” said Mrs. Black.

OH HELLLL nAWwwAaawwww

They say you cannot divide your heart, and yet— And yet what? What had she been about to say?

“‘Oh, Mother, Mother, make my bed Make it soft and narrow. My William died for love of me, And I shall die of sorrow.’

Yeah that’s what Will wants to hear after everything lmaooo

Will was wondering idly how Sophie refrained from hitting Bridget over the head with a plate,

shock went through him as if he had been struck in the chest. He stumbled back against the wall with a short gasp, his hand going to his throat.

OH SHIT

“Now, now, Miss Gray. Aren’t you at least a little glad to see me?

No.

He looked automatically for Tessa first, but she was nowhere to be seen—thank God. She must have had the sense to hide herself away.

About that…

Bridget, a whirl of red hair and slashing blades, was busy reducing a surprisingly enormous automaton to scrap metal with a ferocity

I have such a image of what Bridget looks like in my head and it’s being verified rn and I love it

“It pierced my heart. I can feel it.” “An iratze—” Will began to fumble at his belt for his stele.

Damn

I cannot bear to have them touch me again. I would rather die. I am dying, and I am glad of it.”

The others all came. Tessa and Jem, Henry and Charlotte. But not you. You are not forgiving, Will.” “No.” He said

part of the reason he had never liked Jessamine was that in some ways she reminded him of himself.

“Jem is the forgiving one.” “And yet I always li...

But the way you hated yourself . . . I understood that. Jem always wante...

“Take care of them,” she whispered. “Baby Jessie and the others.” It took Will a moment before he realized that she meant her dolls. Good God.

Honestly made me sad

“Though surely you would all have liked me a bit better if I had told you where Mortmain was. I might not have lost your love then.” “Tell me now,” Will urged. “Tell me, if you can, and earn that love back—”

I wondered yet more that myself, who was to him a second self, could live, he being dead.

Well said one of his friends, “Thou half of my soul”; for I felt that my soul and his soul were “one soul in two

therefore was my life a horror to me, because I would...

Gods this is so relevant

“Do not go in there,” Gabriel said in a low voice. “They are trying to save Jem. Your brother needs to be there for him.”

Gabriel protecting Will mAkes me wanna cry

“I do not know who to be without him,” he said. “Tessa is gone, and every moment she is gone is a knife ripping me apart

The Consul was leaning against the desk, his eyes on the map beneath Charlotte’s hands. “It is not enough.”

Hes so fking sketchy now

“And to the devil with it if she is!” said the Consul. “One girl, who is not Nephilim, is not, cannot, be our priority!” “She is my priority!” Will shouted.

Nothing would dissuade him, though she was no candidate for Ascension. I had hoped for more amenability in his children.”

Fuck this dude

“This ridiculous missive, calculated to annoy me?” “Did it work?”

Love this

that brief moment when you were apt to notice changes in familiar faces before they became part of the scenery of one’s life once again.

Jem looked so thin—how had Will not noticed?—all

Since you met him, you have never left him and never not loved him. That is what matters.”

“You asked me how I, being immortal, survive so many deaths. There is no great secret. You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.”

:(

He looked again at Jem, motionless in the bed. I must accept that this is the end, he thought,

Forever and ever, my brother, hail and farewell.

“I am not dead yet, Will,” Jem said in a soft voice, thin but as strong as wire.

Oh shit did he hear that Will is in love w tessa

“What did Magnus mean by asking you if I knew you were in love with Tessa?”

aHHHHH