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“We live and breathe words. .... It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how you were lonely sometimes and afraid, but always brave; the way you saw the world, its colors and textures and sounds, I felt--I felt the way you thought, hoped, felt, dreamt. I felt I was dreaming and thinking and feeling with you. I dreamed what you dreamed, wanted what you wanted--and then I realized that truly I just wanted you.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“Ah,” said a voice from the doorway, “having your annual ‘everyone thinks Will is a lunatic’ meeting, are you?
“It’s biannual,” said Jem. “And no, this is not that meeting.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“If no one cares for you at all, do you even really exist?”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“I've never minded it," he went on. "Being lost, that is. I had always thought one could not truly be lost if one knew one's own heart. But I fear I may be lost without knowing yours.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“You had to know a person well to make them laugh like that.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“I am not the one of us who has no heart.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“God knows we’re all drawn to what’s beautiful and broken.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“She had never imagined she had the power to make someone else so happy. And not a magical power, either--a purely human one.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“What he needs now is to love and have that love returned.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“Wo ai ni, Tessa." he whispered. "Wo bu xiang shi qu ni."

I love you.
And I don't want to lose you.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“One finds nobility in the oddest places.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“He wanted to make her laugh. He wanted to sit and listen to her talk about books until his ears fell off. But all these were things he could not want, because they were things he could not have, and wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“I thought... that we could at least talk about books.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“I love you, Tessa, and I have loved you, almost since the moment I met you.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“Change is not always accomplished peacefully, but that does not make it disadventageous.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“When I think of you, and you are not there, I see you in my mind's eye always with a book in your hand.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“But am I clever and right or clever and wrong?”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“Beauty is harsh.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“When two people are at one in their inmost hearts, they shatter even the strength of iron or bronze.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince