Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices Book 3)
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He wondered when they had stopped reminding him of Will’s eyes; they were just Cecily’s eyes,
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“Cecy,” he said, and closed the distance between them, though it was not much, and then he was kissing her—his
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THEY ARE SO PRECIOUS
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“I am sorry I have thought and spoken so ill of you for all these years,” Sophie said.
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Im gonna cryyy
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Come back to me. For I cannot bear to lose all my heart.”
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“Jem?” she said. He froze, unmoving, his hand still wrapped about hers. Her eyes fluttered open—as
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THIS HURT MY DAMN FEELINGS
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You are my intended; we should be bound by ties that cannot sever. And yet when you were dying, I was not there. I have never said good-bye.”
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I hate that shes saying thess things ablut Jem to Will :(
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of requiring a new Consul, and when put to a vote, the foremost choice among us was yourself.
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I knew it
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For I do not want to leave you all, and besides, I wish to be here to train Will to take over the Institute for me when I do depart.”
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STOP IM GONNA CRYYY
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everything that had happened since had been a dream. Cadair Idris, Mortmain, the clockwork army, Will’s arms about her—
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Why wont you call out for Will then
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A sigh. “Yes,” he said. “Tessa. Will you look at me?”
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His voice was not the same either. There was an undertone of something cool to it, something that had not been there before.
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:(
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“No. I did not want you to look at me as you are looking at me now.” “Jem—”
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They cannot have parabatai. They can live only in the Silent City. They do not laugh. They cannot play music.”
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Fuck im crying AGAIN
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a reminder of everything I am losing. The life I will not have.”
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Most people never find one great love in their life. You are lucky enough to have found two.
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I cant stop crying
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There’s nothing you could have done that would cause me to cease loving either of you.
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Will is myself, my own soul, and if I am not to have the keeping of your heart,
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And when I am gone, you must help Will. This will be—it wil...
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I fear I will lose my self and my music. I fear I will become something other than wholly human. I know I will not be your Jem.”
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“It was the moment I first knew I loved you,” Jem said. “I will make you a promise. Every year, Tessa, on one day, I will meet you on that bridge.
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“When I am in the darkness, I want to think of it in the light, with you,”
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I LITERALLY CANT TAKE MUCH MORE
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Jem had helped him, showed him how to hold a blade, how to line up the point and throw.
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the training room was the one he most associated with Jem—save
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and that had been stripped of Jem’s belongings. It was just another emp...
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Will could see two boys in his mind, sitting on the floor in front of the fire in this same room,
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“Jem?” he said. “Is it you, James?”
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When any of them says this, it makes me cry and i dont knos why
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“And you did not think I would take the chance, whatever chance I could, to see you, too?”
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“That I might be reminded . . .” What took you away from me. What made you suffer. What I searched for and could not find. How I failed you.
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But I have lost you now—now, when I need you more than I ever did!”
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With his gaze Will searched for, and found, the parabatai rune on Jem’s shoulder; like his own, it had faded to a pale white.
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Will breathed in hard, remembering how much that voice had shaped the years of his growing up,
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“I don’t even know how to be a Shadowhunter without you. I have only ever fought with you by my side.”
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years of Jem’s light tap on his shoulder, his hand reaching to help Will up when he fell, Jem holding him back when he was furious, Will’s own hands on Jem’s thin shoulders as Jem coughed blood into his shirt.
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I dont know if im going to survive this book it is making me hurt so deeply, and i dont have any tissues left
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We are bound, beyond the oath. The Marks did not change that. The oath did not change that. It merely gave words to something that existed already.”
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“She may not want me, you know,” Will said. Jem smiled, fleetingly. “Well, that part is up to you, I think.”
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Will smiled back, and for just that moment they were Jem-and-Will again.
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Will remembered the two of them, running through the dark streets of London, jumping from rooftop to rooftop, seraph blades gleaming in their hands;
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I literally cant breathe
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I will still be in some part the Jem you knew, and I will see you with the eyes of my heart.”
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And if the place over his heart, where his parabatai rune had been, flared up with a sudden burning pain as the door closed behind Jem,
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When I am in the darkness, I will think of it in the light, with you.
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Will, whose heart was as easy to break as it was carefully guarded;
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His eyes darted away from hers, though his grip on her hands did not slacken. “It did,” he said, “and it did not.”
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“Your mind was eased,” she said, “but not your heart.”
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watching Will, whose face was bent over the pages, with a look of tenderness in her eyes, a tenderness mirrored in the softness of Will’s voice as he read.
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Sophie knelt in the center of the circles. Her dark hair was unbound and fell to her waist, a ripple of dark curls against her darker gear.
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Why did i think sophie had blonde hair
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Tessa sat forward, her chest tight with apprehension. She felt Will’s hand slide over hers, a warm, comforting weight.
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Cecily in blue, dashing here and there, delighted to be looking at everything, and Gabriel following her,
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not eating, always turning to speak to someone who was not there, the light in his face dying as he remembered and fell silent.
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My chest hurts SO BAD
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watching Will and Gabriel talking in the courtyard.
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THIS WARMS ME
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will mend the cracks in him. Shadowhunting, and you.”