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62f81f0 "Trains are great dirty smoky things," said Will. "You won't like it." Tessa was unmoved. "I won't know if I like it until I try it, will I?" "I've never swum naked in the Thames before, but I know I wouldn't like it." "But think how entertaining for sightseers," said Tessa, and she saw Jem duck his head to hide the quick flash of his grin." humor tessa-gray jem-carstairs will-herondale teasing Cassandra Clare
2d6aa88 Whatever you are physically...male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy--all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but are the light inside. light lamp clockwork-angel jem-carstairs warrior soul Cassandra Clare
3748c90 "Reparations," said Jem very suddenly, setting down the pen he was holding. Will looked at him in puzzlement. "Is this a game? We just blurt out whatever word comes next to mind? In that case mine is 'genuphobia'. It means an unreasonable fear of knees." "What's the word for a perfectly reasonable fear of annoying idiots?" inquired Jessamine." jessamine-lovelace jem-carstairs will-herondale Cassandra Clare
cf6b5f0 Jem is nothing but goodness. That he struck you last night only shows how capable you are of driving even saints to madness. tessa-gray jem-carstairs will-herondale Cassandra Clare
d3ff57b Will has always been the brighter burning star, the one to catch attention -- but Jem is a steady flame, unwavering and honest. He could make you happy. jem-carstairs will-herondale Cassandra Clare
0c2c5b8 We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss. loss fear hope life love the-infernal-devices jem-carstairs shadowhunters memory Cassandra Clare
9867b1c "Will's voice dropped. "Everyone makes mistakes, Jem." "Yes," said Jem. "You just make more of them than most people." "I --" "You hurt everyone," said Jem. "Everyone whose life you touch." "Not you," Will whispered. "I hurt everyone but you. I never meant to hurt you." Jem put his hands up, pressing his palms against his eyes. "Will --" "You can't never forgive me," Will said in disbelief, hearing the panic tinging his own voice. "I'd be --" "Alone?" Jem lowered his hand, but he was smiling now, crookedly. "And whose fault is that?" loneliness jem-carstairs will-herondale mistakes Cassandra Clare
357eb1e "When Will truly wants something," said Jem, quietly, "when he feels something -- he can break your heart." jem-carstairs will-herondale Cassandra Clare
8549546 There are so many worse things than death. Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse. tessa-gray jem-carstairs will-herondale Cassandra Clare
162eb88 "Will: "Nice place to live, isn't it? Let's hope they left something behind other than filth. Forwarding addresses, a few severed limbs, a prostitute or two ..." Jem: "Indeed. Perhaps, if we're fortunate, we can still catch syphilis." "Or demon pox," Will suggested cheerfully, trying the door under the stairs." -- jem-carstairs will-herondale Cassandra Clare
66be344 Astriola. That IS demon pox. You had evidence that demon pox existed and you didnt mention it to me! Et tu, Brute!' He rolled up the paper and hit Jem over the head with it. humor jem-carstairs will-herondale Cassandra Clare
f54e843 "Jem knotted his fingers in the material of Will's sleeve. "You are my parabatai," he said, "You said once I could ask anything of you." jem-carstairs will-herondale Cassandra Clare
8cf3e40 Our souls are knit. We are one person, James. jem-carstairs will-herondale Cassandra Clare
93023a8 Dreams can be dangerous things. jem-carstairs jem Cassandra Clare
2141a16 "Say something in Mandarin," said Tessa, with a smile. Jem said something that sounded like a lot of breathy vowels and consonants run together, his voice rising and falling melodically: "Ni hen piao liang." "What did you say?" Tessa was curious. "I said your hair is coming undone -- here," he said, and reached out and tucked an escaping curl back behind her ear. Tessa felt the blood spill hot up into her face, and was glad for the dimness of the carriage. "You have to be careful with it," he said, taking his hand back, slowly, his fingers lingering against her cheek." tessa-gray jem-carstairs Cassandra Clare
69b81b4 She smiled. Her skin looked whiter than he recalled, and dark spidery veins were beginning to show beneath its surface. Her hair was still the color of spun silver and her eyes were still green as a cat's. She was still beautiful. Looking at her, he was in London again. He saw the gaslight and smelled the smoke and dirt and horses, the metallic tang of fog, the flowers in Kew Gardens. He saw a boy with black hair and blue eyes like Alec's, heard violin music like the sound of silver water. He saw a girl with long brown hair and a serious face. In a world where everything went away from him eventually, she was one of the few remaining constants. And then there was Camille. city-of-fallen-angels tessa-gray magnus-bane jem-carstairs will-herondale Cassandra Clare
881c941 Someday, Will, I will go where none can follow me, and I think it will be sooner rather than later. Have you ever asked yourself why I agreed to be your parabatai? jem-carstairs will-herondale friendships Cassandra Clare
864606b "She smiled at him. "How did you know just what I'd want to see?" "How could I not?" he said. "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." He looked away from her as he said it, but not before she caught the slight flush on his cheekbones. He was so pale, he could never hide even the least blush, she thought -- and was surprised how affectionate the thought was." tessa-gray jem-carstairs Cassandra Clare
855d346 "Herondales." Zachariah's voice was a breath, half laughter, half pain. "I had almost forgotten. No other family does so much for love, or feels so much guilt for it. Don't carry the weight of the world on you, Jace. It's too heavy for even a Herondale to bear." love pg-234 jem-carstairs jace-herondale Cassandra Clare
74be42d "Do you think Charlotte will let me handle the investigation?" "Do think you can be trusted in Downworld? The gaming hells, the dens of magical vice, the women of loose morals..." Will smiled the way Lucifer might have smiled, moments before he fell from heaven. "Would tomorrow be to early to start looking, do you think? Jem sighed. 'Do what you like, William. You always do." jem-carstairs will-herondale Cassandra Clare
39390a1 I promise to charm the dickens out of him,' said Will, sitting up and readjusting his crushed hat. 'I shall charm him with such force that when I am done, he will be left lying limply on the ground, trying to remember his own name.' 'The man's eighty-nine', muttered Jem. 'He may well have the problem anyway. clockwork-prince infernal-devices jem-carstairs will-herondale Cassandra Clare
87e3a20 "You bit de Quincey," he said. "You fool. He's a vampire. You know what it means to bite a vampire." "I had no choice," said Will. "He was choking me." "I know," Jem said. "But really, Will. Again?" the-infernal-devices jem-carstairs will-herondale Cassandra Clare
049f868 "It is the mundanes who look at me and see something they do not understand--a boy who is not quite white and not quite foreign either." "Just as I am not human, and not demon either," Tessa said softly. His eyes softened. "You are human," he said. "Never think you are not. I have seen you with your brother; I know how you care for him. If you can feel hope, guilt, sorrow, love--then you are human." the-infernal-devices clockwork-angel tessa-gray jem-carstairs Cassandra Clare
0a352f6 Wo men shi jie bai xiong di-we are more than brothers, Will. page-245 clockwork-princess jem-carstairs will-herondale Cassandra Clare
627966b "Your place is with me," Jem said. "It always will be." "What do you mean?" He flushed, the color dark against his pale skin. "I mean," he said, "Tessa Gray, will you do me the honor of becoming my wife?" Tessa sat bolt upright. "Jem!" They stared at each other for a moment. At last he said, trying for lightness, though his voice cracked, "That was not a no, I suppose, though neither was it a yes." "You can't mean it." "I do mean it." "You can't--I'm not a Shadowhunter. They'll expel you from the Clave--" He took a step closer to her, his eyes eager. "You may not be precisely a Shadowhunter. But you are not a mundane either, nor provably a Downworlder. Your situation is unique, so I do not know what the Clave will do. But they cannot forbid something that is not forbidden by the Law. They will have to take your--our--individual case into consideration, and that could take months. In the meantime they cannot prevent our engagement." "You are serious." Her mouth was dry. "Jem, such a kindness on your part is indeed incredible. It does you credit. But I cannot let you sacrifice marriage love tessa-gray jem-carstairs Cassandra Clare
9b00ef8 He played of love and loss and years of silence, words unsaid and vows unspoken, and all the spaces between his heart and theirs; and when he was done, and he'd set the violin back in its box, Will's eyes were closed, but Tessa's were full of tears. tessa-gray jem-carstairs will-herondale Cassandra Clare
db5b2d8 "Do you remember when we stood together on Blackfriars Bridge?" he asked softly, and his eyes were like that night had been, all black and silver. "Of course I remember." "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. 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." james-carstairs tessa-gray jem-carstairs Cassandra Clare
3907436 Jem's knees gave out, and he sank to the trunk at the foot of his bed, still playing. He played Will breathing the name Cecily, and he played himself watching the glint of his own ring on Tessa's hand on the train from York, knowing it was all a charade, knowing, too, that he wished that it wasn't. He played the sorrow in Tessa's eyes when she had come into the music room after Will had told her she would never have children. Unforgivable, that, what a thing to do, and yet Jem had forgiven him. Love was forgiveness, he had always believed that, and the things that Will did, he did out of some bottomless well of pain. Jem did not know the source of that pain, but he knew it existed and was real, knew it as he knew of the inevitability of his own death, knew it as he knew that he had fallen in love with Tessa Gray and that there was nothing he or anyone else could do about it. clockwork-prince jem-carstairs Cassandra Clare
aecb7ed I have not stopped loving her, nor my parabatai; love does not stop when someone dies. love page-718 the-beauty-of-a-thousand-stars epilogue city-of-heavenly-fire the-mortal-instruments parabatai jem-carstairs Cassandra Clare
f44782d I think there is hope for you yet, Will Herondale. I will try to learn how to have it, without you to show me. Tessa, Jem said. She knows despair, and hope as well. you can teach each other. Find her, Will, and tell her that I loved her always. My blessings, for all that it is worth, is on you both. page-246 clockwork-princess tessa-gray jem-carstairs will-herondale Cassandra Clare
d19787e In all the world, you are what I love the most. tessa-gray jem-carstairs Cassandra Clare
03f2d39 I always loved you, Will, whatever you did. And now I need you to do for me what I cannot do for myself. For you to be my eyes when I do not have them. For you to be my hands when I cannot use my own. For you to be my hear when mine is done with beating. No, said Will wildly. No, no, no. I will not be those things. Your eyes will see, your hands will feel, your hear will continue to beat. But if not, Will- If I could tear myself in half, I would-that half of me might remain with you and half follow Tessa- Half of you would be no good to either of us, said Jem. page-245 clockwork-princess jem-carstairs will-herondale Cassandra Clare
70313ab "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." tid the-infernal-devices clockwork-angel tessa-gray jem-carstairs Cassandra Clare
0551ad4 "He dropped his voice, so low that Tessa wasn't sure if what he said next was real or part of the dream darkness rising to claim her, though she fought against it. "I've never minded it," he went on. "Being lost, that is. I had always thought one could not be truly lost if one knew one's own heart. But I fear I may be lost without knowing yours." He closed his eyes as if he were bone-weary, and she saw how thin his eyelids were, like parchment paper, and how tired he looked. "Wo ai ni, Tessa," he whispered. "Wo bu xiang shi qu ni." She knew, without knowing how she knew, what the words meant. romance love tessa-gray jem-carstairs Cassandra Clare
0724ded I am leaving, but I am living. I will not be gone from you entirely, Will. When you fight now, I will be still by you. When you walk in the world, I will be the light at your side, the ground steady under your feet, the force that drives the sword in your hand. parting-ways jem-carstairs will-herondale Cassandra Clare
a722e50 Will closed his eyes. He could not hear Jem go, not anymore; he did not want to know the moment when he left and Will was alone, did now want to know when his first day as a Shawdowhunter without a parabatai truly began. 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, Will told himself it was only a stray ember from the fire. page-507 page-508 clockwork-princess parabatai jem-carstairs will-herondale Cassandra Clare
efc4624 "He made it very clear that he didn't want me here," she said at last. "That my remaining at the Institute is not the happy chance I thought it was. Not in his view." "And after I just finished telling you why you should consider him family," Jem said, a bit ruefully. "No wonder you looked as if I'd just told you something awful just happened." "I'm sorry," Tessa whispered. "Don't be. It's Will who ought to be sorry." Jem's eyes darkened. "We shall throw him out onto the streets," he proclaimed. "I promise you he'll be gone by morning." Tessa started and sat upright. "Oh - no, you can't mean that-" He grinned. "Of course I don't. But you did feel better for a moment there, didn't you?" friends jem-carstairs rejection Cassandra Clare
2419b55 "He wanted to run to her, wrap her in his arms. Protect her. But it was Jem's place to do those things, not his. Not his." -Will Herondale" -- clockwork-princess tessa-gray infernal-devices jem-carstairs will-herondale love-triangle Cassandra Clare
09828f4 "This cat is looking at me with judgment.""He's not," said Jules. "That's just his face.""You look at me the same way," Mark said, glancing at Julian. "Judgy face." funny church-the-cat jules-blackthorn tda james-carstairs mark-blackthorn lady-midnight jem-carstairs the-dark-artifices emma-carstairs jemma julian-blackthorn judgment Cassandra Clare
6562d92 Jem cried out with all his remaining strength. You cannot go where I am going! Nor would I want that for you! clockwork-princess jem-carstairs will-herondale page-244 Cassandra Clare
eaa091b "Will is... difficult," Jem said. "But family is difficult. If I didn't think the Institute was the best place for you, Tessa, I wouldn't say it was. And one can build one's own family. I know you feel inhuman, and as if you were set apart, away from life and love, but..." His voice cracked a little, the first time Tessa had heard him sound unsure. He cleared his throat. "I promise you, the right man won't care." family love jem-carstairs Cassandra Clare
b2dd135 She did not belong to Will-she was too much herself to belong to anyone, even Jem-but she belonged with them, and silently he cursed the Consul for not seeing it. page-260 clockwork-princess tessa-gray jem-carstairs will-herondale Cassandra Clare
7c97f6d A great sadness welled up in Magnus at the sight of him. It was human to age and die, and Jem stood outside that humanity now, outside the light that burned so brightly and so briefly. It was cold outside that light and fire. No one had greater cause to know that cold than Magnus did. magnus-bane jem-carstairs Cassandra Clare
26bc4ab "You have been known to call upon Brother Zachariah for a broken toe. "It was turning green," said Will" heronstairs brother-zachariah jem-carstairs will-herondale Cassandra Clare
fac37b0 I played it for my bride, and one day you will play for yours. clockwork-angel clockwork-prince jem-carstairs cassandra-clare Cassandra Clare
579bedf There's nothing you could have done that would cause me to cease loving either of you. Will is myself, my own soul, and if I am not to have the keeping of your heart, then there is not other I would rather have that honor. page-497 page-498 clockwork-princess tessa-gray jem-carstairs will-herondale Cassandra Clare
2f31e57 Not forever, Tessa thought. They had a long, long time. A lifetime. His lifetime. And she would lose him one day, as she had lost Will, and her heart would break, as it had broken before. And she would put herself back together and go on, because the memory of having had Jem would be better than never having had him at all. love the-infernal-devices tessa-gray jem-carstairs beautiful Cassandra Clare
e1a7ad9 "Being a vampire is not a curse. It's a disease," Tessa filled in. "But they still can't enter hallowed ground, then? Does that mean they're damned?" "That depends on what you believe," said Jem. "And whether you believe in damnation at all." "But you hunt demons. You must believe in damnation!" "I believe in good and evil," said Jem. "And I believe the soul is eternal. I don't believe in the fiery pit, the pitchforks, or the endless torment. I do not believe you can threaten people into goodness." religion tessa-gray jem-carstairs Cassandra Clare
3b35b25 "Oh, I can never get enough," he said. "Which, incidentally, is what your sister said to me when-" The carriage door flew open. A hand shot out, grabbed Will by the back of the shirt, and hauled him inside." gabriel-lightwood the-infernal-devices jem-carstairs will-herondale Cassandra Clare
3e5d2bc Life was an uncertain thing. tdi clockwork-princess the-infernal-devices tessa-gray jem-carstairs will-herondale shadowhunters Cassandra Clare
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