Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices Book 3)

by Cassandra Clare

“I am not a certified idiot—” “Lack of certification hardly proves intelligence,” Will muttered.

Sophie swallowed. “Mr. Lightwood—” But his fingers had spread out to cup her cheek, and he was bending to kiss her. “Sophie,” he breathed, and then their lips found each other,

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“What good will it do you to die for James Carstairs, when he is dying anyway?” “Because if I save him, then it is worth it—” “God!” Magnus’s eyes narrowed. “What is worth it? What could possibly be worth it?” “Everything I have lost!” Will shouted. “Tessa!”

Magnus continued to look astonished. “You summoned me here—a warlock to the Institute, just after a battle in which you were nearly all killed—to talk?”

of course, Will does what he wants.

“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.”

“I am not dead yet, Will,” Jem said in a soft voice, thin but as strong as wire. “What did Magnus mean by asking you if I knew you were in love with Tessa?”

Ahhhh

Magnus waved a hand. “All Lightwoods look the same to me—”

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“I ask only one thing of you, Charlotte. When you find Tessa Gray, and you will find her, tell her she is welcome to the name of Starkweather.”

You are immortal, girl, but you are not invulnerable. You can be killed. The angel is tuned to your life; it is designed to save you if you are dying.

“It’s all very romantic,” Gabriel said, and then frowned. “Or it would be, if my brother could get a word out without sounding like a choking frog. I fear he will not go down in history as one of the world’s great wooers of women.”

“Oh, my Will.”

“I did not die. I changed. If I could have told you—if there was a way—”

It was a near incomprehensible tangle, the three of them, but there was one certainty, and that was that there was no lack of love between them.

“I will make you a promise. Every year, Tessa, on one day, I will meet you on that bridge. I will come from the Silent City and I will meet you, and we will be together, if only for an hour. But you must tell no one.”