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“So you're a Shadowhunter,' Nate said. 'De Quincey told me that you lot were monsters.'
'Was that before or after he tried to eat you?' Will inquired.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“Will looked horrified. "What kind of monster could possibly hate chocolate?”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“Remember when you tried to convince me to feed a poultry pie to the mallards in the park to see if you could breed a race of cannibal ducks?"

"They ate it too," Will reminisced. "Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“It isn't against the Law to be an idiot.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“One must always be careful of books,' said Tessa, 'and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.'

'I'm not sure a book has ever changed me,' said Will. 'Well there is one volume that promises to teach one how to turn oneself into an entire flock of sheep-'

'Only the very weak minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry,' said Tessa, determined not to let him run wildly off with the conversation.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“Perhaps he's in love with Agatha," she said.
"I hope not. I intend to marry Agatha myself. She may be a thousand years old, but she makes an incomparable jam tart. Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“The best lies are based on the
truth, at least in part”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“She's alive," Thomas said, not opening his eyes.
"What?" Will was caught off guard.
"The one you come back for. Her. Tessa. She's with Sophie.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“James Carstairs! Jem! Where are you, you disloyal bastard?”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“Many who have gazed upon me have compared the experience to gazing at the radiance of the sun.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“It's okay to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth loving.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“Were you thinking about eating me?” Will inquired.
“No!”
“No one would blame you,” said Jem. “He’s very annoying.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“You point your feet out too much when you walk,” Will went on. He was busy polishing an apple on his shirtfront, and appeared not to notice Tessa glaring at him. “Camille walks delicately. Like a faun in the woods. Not like a duck”
“I do not walk like a duck.”
“I like ducks,” Jem observed diplomatically. “Especially the ones in Hyde Park.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“Well, I don't want you to die," Tessa said. "I don't know why I feel it so strongly -- I've just met you -- but I don't want you to die."

"And I trust you," he said. "I don't know why -- I've just met you -- but I do.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“What’s your name, then?
”Tessa looked at him in disbelief. “What’s my name?”
“Don’t you know it?”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“Shadowhunters don't say good-bye, not before a battle. Or good luck. You must behave as if return is certain, not a matter of chance”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“She smiled smugly. “We came to an agreement, the duck and I.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“His blue eyes were very dark...Will's were the colour of the sky just on the edge of the night...”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“Will interrupted. "Henry," he said, "you're on fire. You do know that, don't you?”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“You should see his older brother,” said Jem. “Makes Gabriel look sweeter than gingerbread. Hates Will even more thanGabriel, too, if that’s possible.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“Tessa looked at him in disbelief. "what's my name?"

"don't you know it?”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“It’s that I think Will is angry with me,” Tessa explained. “So whatever he told you—”
He laughed. “Will is angry with everyone,” he said. “I don’t let it color my judgment.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“She warned me about Mr. Herondale, though, said he’d likely be rude to me, and familiar. She said I could be rude right back, that nobody would mind.”

“Someone ought to be rude to him. He’s rude enough to everyone else.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“Then forget Gabriel. Is there a particular reason you keep biting vampires?"

Will touched the dried blood on his wrists, and smiled. "They don't expect it.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“He waved a hand at the ropes. “Do you often sleep tied to the bed?”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“No real lady would let a dress that might have been worn by a stranger touch her skin.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“You think she is pretty?' Will was surprised; Jem rarely opined this sort of thing.
'Yes, and you do too.'
'I hadn't noticed, really.'
'Yes, you have, and I've noticed you noticing.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“He looked at her curiously. He did something that surprised her then, and took her hand, turning it over. She looked down at it, at her bitten fingernails, the still-healing scratches along the backs of her fingers.
He kissed the back of it, just a light touch of his mouth, and his hair-as soft and light as silk-brushed her wrist as he lowered his head. She felt a shock go through her, strong enough to startle her, and she stood speechless as he straightened, his mouth curving into a smile.
"Mizpah," he said.
She blinked at him, a little dazed. "What?"
"A sort or goodbye without saying goodbye," he said.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“The young man who appeared at the mouth of the alley was pale in
the lamplight—paler even than he usually was, which was quite pale indeed.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel