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f20862f "They're not hideous," said Tessa. Will blinked at her. "What?" "Gideon and Gabriel," said Tessa. "They're really quite good-looking, not hideous at all." "I spoke," said Will, in sepulchral tones, "of the pitch-black inner depths of their souls." Tessa snorted. "And what color do you suppose the inner depths of your soul are, Will Herondale?" "Mauve," said Will." tessa-gray will-herondale Cassandra Clare
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
50f2db7 "Tessa craned her head back to look at Will. "You know that feeling," she said, "when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel the cold and darkness coming, see the net drawing tight around the characters who live and breathe on the pages. But you are tied to the story as if being dragged behind a carriage and you cannot let go or turn the course aside." His blue eyes were dark with understanding -- of course Will would understand -- and she hurried on. "I feel now as if the same is happening, only not to characters on a page but to my own beloved friends and companions. I do not want to sit by while tragedy comes for us. I would turn it aside, only I struggle to discover how that might be done." "You fear for Jem," Will said. "Yes," she said. "And I fear for you, too." "No," Will said, hoarsely. "Don't waste that on me, Tess." tessa-gray will-herondale Cassandra Clare
ff0b32b "Of course you can have a true Shadowhunter name," Will said. "You can have mine." Tessa stared at him, all black and white against the black-and-white snow and stone. "Your name?" Will took a step toward her, till they stood face-to-face. Then he reached to take her hand and slid off her glove, which he put into his pocket. He held her bare hand in his, his fingers curved around hers. His hand was warm and callused, and his touch made her shiver. His eyes were steady and blue; they were everything that Will was: true and tender, sharp and witty, loving and kind. "Marry me," he said. "Marry me, Tess. Marry me and be called Tessa Herondale. Or be Tessa Gray, or be whatever you wish to call yourself, but marry me and stay with me and never leave me, for I cannot bear another day of my life to go by that does not have you in it." love tessa-gray will-herondale marriage-proposal 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
e103853 "And to the devil with it if she is!" said the Consul. "One girl, who is not Nephilim, is not, , be our priority." "She is priority!" Will shouted." -- tessa-gray will-herondale Cassandra Clare
7c48e16 "You speak of sacrifice, but it is not my sacrifice I offer. It is yours I ask of you," he went on. "I can offer you my life, but it is a short life; I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many more beats it shall sustain. But I love you enough to hope that you wil not care that I am being selfish in trying to make the rest of my life - whatever length - happy, by spending it with you. I want to be married to you, Tessa. I want it more than I have ever wanted anything else in my life." He looked up at her through the veil of silvery hair that fell over his eyes. "That is," he said shyly, "if you love me, too." tessa-gray 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
5750cbd "Tessa touched his wrist lightly with her hand. "Be brave," she said. "It's not a duck, is it?" bravery ducks clockwork-princess william-herondale tessa-gray Cassandra Clare
724a8e0 "You haven't broken his heart yet, have you?" "No," Tessa said. "I haven't broken his heart at all." tessa-gray Cassandra Clare
565a5b4 She leaned forward and caught at his hand, pressing it between her own. The touch was like white fire through his veins. He could not feel her skin only the cloth of her gloves, and yet it did not matter. He had wondered once why love was always phrased in terms of burning. The conflagration in his own veins, now, gave the answer. love tessa-gray will-herondale fire Cassandra Clare
f2a290b "If you do not help me," Tessa said to Jem, "I swear, I will change into you, and I will lift him myself. And then everyone here will see what you look like in a dress." She fixed him with a look. "Do you understand?" -- tessa-gray Cassandra Clare
8e78b20 "They say you cannot love two people equally at once," she said. "And perhaps for others that is so. But you and Will--you are not like two ordinary people, two people who might have been jealous of each other, or who would have imagined my love for one of them diminished by my love of the other. You merged your souls when you were both children. I could not have loved Will so much if I had not loved you as well. And I could not love you as I do if I had not loved Will as I did." epilogue james-castairs jem-castairs tessa theresa-gray william-herondale the-infernal-devices tessa-gray infernal-devices will-herondale jem will soul 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
0cf8fc0 "You know that feeling," she said, "when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel the cold and darkness coming, see the net drawing tight around the characters who live and breathe on the pages. But you are tied to the story as if being dragged behind a carriage and you cannot let go or turn the course aside." reading tessa-gray will-herondale reading-books Cassandra Clare
19947ac "Jem told me what Ragnor Fell said about my father," Will said. "That for my father, there was only ever one woman he loved, and it was her for him, or nothing. You are that for me. I love you, and I will only ever love you until I die --" -- tessa-gray will-herondale 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
bfce5e8 I am not the one of us who has no heart. tessa-gray will-herondale Cassandra Clare
8ecdc5a I suspect he's sweet on Sophie and doesn't like to see her work too hard.' Tessa was glad to hear it. She'd felt awful about her reaction to Sophie's scar, and the thought that Sophie had a male admirer - and a handsome one like that- eased her conscience slightly. '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. humorous glib infenal-devices jam clockwork-angel tessa-gray will-herondale Cassandra Clare
c2c1add "Wo wei ni xie de," he said, as he raised the violin to his left shoulder, tucking it under his chin. He had told her many violinists used a shoulder rest, but he did not: there was a slight mark on the side of his throat, like a permanent bruise, where the violin rested. "You -- made something for me?" Tessa asked. "I wrote something for you," he corrected, with a smile, and began to play." tessa-gray Cassandra Clare
381a0ef I thought perhaps that when you told me you did not love me that my own feelings would fall away and atrophy, but they have not. They have grown every day. I love you now more desperately, this moment, than I have ever loved you before, and in an hour I will love you more than that tessa-gray will-herondale Cassandra Clare
7ad3ff2 One does no question miracles, or complain that they are no constructed perfectly to one's liking. life tessa-gray miracles Cassandra Clare
c71fea3 "He gazed amusedly down the table at Tessa. "You're the shape-changer, aren't you?" he said. "Magnus Bane told me about you. No mark on you at all, they say." Tessa swallowed and looked him straight in the eye. They were discordantly human eyes, ordinary in his extraordinary face. "No. No mark." He grinned around his fork. "I do suppose they've looked everywhere?" "I'm sure Will's tried," said Jessamine in a bored tone." tessa-gray Cassandra Clare
0266206 "I love you so much, so incredibly much," he went on, "and I forget when you're close to me, I forget who you are. I forget that you're Jem's. I'd have to be the worst sort of person to think what I'm thinking right now. But I am thinking it." but-this-book-ruined-them cp2 i-used-to-have-a-heart tid james-carstairs clockwork-princess william-herondale the-infernal-devices parabatai tessa-gray Cassandra Clare
3f51315 I want you to be happy, and him to be happy. And yet when you walk that aisle to meet him and join yourselves forever you will walk an invisible path of the shards of my heart, Tessa. I would give over my own life for your happiness. I thought perhaps that when you told me you did not love me that my own feelings would fall away and atrophy, but they have not. They have grown every day. I love you now more desperately, this moment, than I have ever loved you before, and in an hour I will love you more than that. page-196 clockwork-princess tessa-gray will-herondale Cassandra Clare
a8947e6 "He opened his mouth. The words were there. He was about to say them when a jolt of terror went through him, the terror of someone who, wandering in a mist, pauses only to realise that they have stopped inches from the edge of a gaping abyss. The way she was looking at him - she could read what was in his eyes, he realised. It must have been written plainly there, like words on the page of a book. There had been no time, no chance, to hide it. "Will," she whispered. "Say something, Will." love clockwork-angel tessa-gray will-herondale despair Cassandra Clare
628e476 "As the carriage whipped forward, they passed the alley she had spent so many days staring at--it was there, and then gone as they careened around a corner, nearly knocking over a costermonger pushing a donkey cart piled high with new potatoes. Tessa screamed. Will reached past her and yanked the curtain shut. "It's better if you don't look," he told her pleasantly. "He's going to kill someone. Or get us killed." "No, he won't. Thomas is an excellent driver." Tessa glared at him. "Clearly the word excellent means something else on this side of the Atlantic." the-infernal-devices clockwork-angel tessa-gray will-herondale Cassandra Clare
d6087ab "...In Paris she found Magnus, who was living in a garret apartment and paiting, an occupation for which he had no aptitude whatsoever. He let her sleep on a mattress by the window, and in the night, when she woke up screaming for Will, he came and put his arms around her, smelling of turpentine. "The first one is always the hardest," he said. "The first?" "The first one you love who dies," he said. "It gets easier, after." clockwork-princess tessa-gray magnus-bane 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
bd889b7 Come back to me, Tessa. Henry said that perhaps, since you had touched the soul of an angel, that you dream of Heaven now, of fields of angels and flowers of fire. Perhaps you are happy in those dreams. But I ask this out of pure selfishness. Come back to me. For I cannot bear to lose all my heart. heaven page-479 clockwork-princess tessa-gray 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
0df23f3 I feel like you can look inside me and see all the places I am odd or unusual and fit your heart around them, for you are odd and unusual in just the same way. We are the same. tessa-gray will-herondale Cassandra Clare
86fdc0c He remembered Tessa weeping in his arms in Paris, and thinking that he had never known the loss she felt, because he had never loved like she had, and that he was afraid that someday he would, and like Tessa he would lose his mortal love. And that it was better to be the one who died than the one who lived on. He had dismissed that, later, as a morbid fantasy, and had not remembered it again until Alec. loss love page-502 part-2 city-of-heavenly-fire tessa-gray magnus-bane immortal cassandra-clare mortal 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
421431e "I adore Wilkie Collins," Tessa cried. "Oh--Armadale! And The Woman in White ... Are you laughing at me?" "Not at you," said Will, grinning, "more because of you. I've never seen anyone get so excited over books before. You'd think they were diamonds." "Well, they are, aren't they? Isn't there anything you love like that? And don't say 'spats' or 'lawn tennis' or something silly." "Good Lord," he said with mock horror, "it's like she knows me already." tessa-gray will-herondale 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
c47ff34 Tessa was laying on her side, her brown hair spread over the pillow, 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. love tessa-gray will-herondale tenderness 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
d56b54e Hell is cold. Do you remember when you told me that? We were in the cellars of the Dark House. Anyone else would have been panicking, but you were as calm as a governess, telling me Hell was covered in ice. If it is the fire of Heaven that takes you from me, what a cruel irony that would be. page-478 page-479 clockwork-princess tessa-gray will-herondale Cassandra Clare
0f5d82d Jem always said that Will rushed toward the end of a mission rather than proceeding in a measured manner, and that one must look at the next step on the path ahead, rather than the destination in the distance, or one would never reach one's goal. Will closed his eyes for a moment. He knew that Jem was right, but it was hard to remember, when the goal that he sought was the girl that he loved. tessa-gray will-herondale Cassandra Clare
9f636c6 "We should go back inside," she said, in a half whisper. She did not want to go back inside. She wanted to stay here, with Will achingly close, almost leaning into her. She could feel the heat that radiated from his body. His dark hair fell around the mask, into his eyes, tangling with his long eyelashes. "We have only a little time-" She took a step forward-and stumbled into Will, who caught her. She froze-and then her arms crept around him, her fingers lacing themselves behind his neck. Her face was pressed against his throat, his soft hair under her fingers. She closed her eyes, shutting out the dizzying world, the light beyond the French windows, the glow of the sky. She wanted to be here with Will, cocooned in this moment, inhaling the clean sharp scent of him., feeling the beat of his heart against hers, as steady and strong as the pulse of the ocean. She felt him inhale. "Tess," he said. "Tess, look at me." She raised her eyes to his, slow and unwilling, braced for anger or coldness-but his gaze was fixed on hers, his dark blue eyes somber beneath their thick black lashes, and they were stripped of all their usual cool, aloof distance. They were as clear as glass and full of desire. And more than desire-a tenderness she had never seen in them before, had never even associated with Will Herondale. That, more than anything else, stopped her protest as he raised his hands and methodically began to take the pins from her hair, one by one. This is madness, she thought, as the first pin rattled to the ground. They should be running, fleeing this place. Instead she stood, wordless, as Will cast Jessamine's pearl clasps aside as if they were so much paste jewelry. Her own long, curling dark hair fell down around her shoulders, and Will slid his hands into it. She heard him exhale as he did so, as if he had been holding his breath for months and had only just let it out. She stood as if mesmerized as he gathered her hair in his hands, draping it over one of her shoulders, winding her curls between his fingers. "My Tessa," he said, and this time she did not tell him that she was not his. tessa-gray clockwork-prince infernal-devices will-herondale Cassandra Clare
53dcd81 Was this what it meant to love someone? That any burden was a burden shared, that they could give you comfort with a word or a touch? love tessa-gray Cassandra Clare
1ea895e "Tessa reached to brush the damp hair from his forehead. He leaned into her touch, his eyes closing. "Jem--have you ever--" She hesitated. "Have you ever thought of ways to prolong your life that are not a cure for the drug?" At that his eyelids flew open. "What do you mean?" She thought of Will, on the floor of the attic, choking on holy water. "Becoming a vampire. You would live forever--" He scrambled upright against the pillows of the bed. "Tessa, no. Don't--you can't think that way." "Is the thought of becoming a Downworlder truly so horrible to you?" "Tessa ..." He exhaled slowly. "I am a Shadowhunter. Nephilim. Like my parents before me. It is the heritage I claim, just as I claim my mother's heritage as part of myself. It does not mean I hate my father. But I honor the gift they gave me, the blood of the Angel, the trust placed in me, the vows I have taken. Nor, I think, would I make a very good vampire. [redacted for spoilers] I would no longer be Will's parabatai, no longer be welcome in the Institute. No, Tessa. I would rather die and be reborn and see the sun again, than live to the end of the world without daylight." "A Silent Brother, then," she said. His eyes softened slightly. "The path of Silent Brotherhood is not open to me." silent-brothers tessa-gray 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
14521c7 " ," he said. She blinked at him, a little dazed. "What?" "A sort of good-bye without saying good-bye," he said. "It is a reference to a passage in the Bible. 'And Mizpah, for he said, the Lord watch between me and thee when we are absent one from another." tessa-gray Cassandra Clare
46f592c Will. For a moment her heart hesitated. She remembered when Will had died, her agony, the long nights alone, reaching across the bed every morning when she woke up, for years expecting to find him there, and only slowly growing accustomed to the fact that side of the bed would always be empty. The moments when she had found something funny and turned to share the joke with him, only to be shocked anew that he was not there. The worst moments, when, sitting alone at breakfast, she had realized that she had forgotten the precise blue of his eyes or the depth of his laugh; that, like the sound of Jem's violin music, they had faded into the distance where memories are silent. loneliness loss memories love tessa-gray will-herondale Cassandra Clare
da5acba "I don't remember ordering the bride of an evil maniac," said Magnus. "It was definitely beef and broccoli. What about you, Tessa? Did you order the bride of an evil maniac?" valentine-morgenstern tessa-gray magnus-bane Cassandra Clare
e8c769f Tessa is gone, and every moment she is gone is a knife ripping me apart from the inside. tessa-gray will-herondale Cassandra Clare
41c47b9 "The moment the door closed behind him, Tessa was in Will's arms, her hands locked about his neck. "Oh, by the Angel," she said. "That was mortifying." Will slid his hands into her hair and was kissing her, kissing her eyelids and her cheeks and then her mouth, quickly but with fervor and concentration, as if nothing could be more important. "Listen to you," he said. "You said 'by the angel.' Like a Shadowhunter." He kissed the side of her mouth. "I love you. God, I love you. I waited so long to say it." love mortifying p-435 william-herondale tessa-gray Cassandra Clare
c3e962f "Why are we bringing him along, again?" Will inquired, of the world in general as well as his sister. Cecily put her hands on her hips. "Why are you bringing Tessa?" "Because Tessa and I are going to be married," Will said, and Tessa smiled; the way that Will's little sister could ruffle his feathers like no one else was still amusing to her. "Well, Gabriel and I might well be married," Cecily said. "Someday." Gabriel made a choking noise, and turned an alarming shade of purple. Will threw up his hands. "You can't be married Cecily! You're only fifteen! When I get married, I'll be eighteen! An adult!" Cecily did not look impressed. "We may have a long engagement," she said. "But I cannot see why you are counseling me to marry a man my parents have never met." marriage humor p-541 gabriel-lightwood william-herondale tessa-gray Cassandra Clare
fc69f63 "Will began to straighten up, to turn away from the bed. And as he did, he felt something wrap tightly around his wrist. He glanced down and saw Jem's hand braceleting his own. For a moment he was too shocked to do anything but stare. "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?" -- tessa-gray will-herondale 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
f862670 Mr. Rochester never courted Jane Eyre, Tessa pointed out. No, he dressed up as a woman and terrified the poor girl out of her wits. Is that what you want? page-522 clockwork-princess tessa-gray will-herondale Cassandra Clare
8eb2972 wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness madness tessa-gray clockwork-prince infernal-devices will-herondale misery Cassandra Clare
a0fb7d8 To his children, Will showed the same love he had always shown to her, fierce and unyielding. And the same protectiveness he had only ever showed to one other person: the person James had been named after. Will's parabatai, Jem. love james-herondale lucie-herondale unyielding james-carstairs tessa-gray will-herondale protectiveness 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
4122a65 "I am Tessa Gray," she said in a low, clear voice. "And I believe in the importance of stories." tessa-gray stories Cassandra Clare
69a6eb1 "I believe everything you say," Tessa said with a smile, her hands creeping down from his waist to his weapons belt. Her fingers closed on the hilt of a dagger, and she yanked it from the belt, smiling as he looked down at her in surprise. She kissed his cheek and stepped back. "After all," she said, "you weren't lying about that tattoo of the dragon of Wales, were you?" will-s-dragon-tattoo wessa tessa-gray will-herondale will Cassandra Clare
4d43dc6 "I need some beef and broccoli before I face any more Mr. Darcy. It's a truth universally acknowledged that if you watch too much television on am empty stomach, your head falls off." "If your head fall off, " Tessa said, "the hairdressing industry would go into an economic meltdown" tessa-gray mr-darcy Cassandra Clare
bef19e7 "Will stopped glaring at Gabriel, and turned to Tessa. He looked at her and his face softened: the traces of the wild, broken boy he had been vanished, replaced with the expression often worn by the man he was now, who knew what it was to love and be loved. "Dear heart," he said. He took her hand and kissed it. "Who knows your courage better than I?" love dear-heart wessa tessa-gray will-herondale Cassandra Clare
b3dcb6f "Julian: "Wikipedia knows about everything. It might be run by warlocks." Emma: "You think that's what they do all day in the Spiral Labyrinth? Run Wikipedia?" Julian: "I admit it seems like a letdown." spiral-labyrinth wikipedia tessa-gray emma-carstairs julian-blackthorn lord-of-shadows Cassandra Clare
bf41152 [Jem] 'It will help you sleep.' 'All I've been doing is sleeping!' [Tessa] 'And very amusing it is to watch, said Jem. 'Did you know you twitch your nose when you sleep, like a rabbit?' 'I do not,' she said, with a whispered laugh. 'You do,' he said. 'Fortunately, I like rabbits. tessa-gray rabbits Cassandra Clare
8e1b8dd "Will grinned. "Some of these books are dangerous," he said. "It's wise to be careful.""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" -- poetry books fandom fandom-talk literarature the-clockwork-angel tid william-herondale the-infernal-devices clockwork-angel tessa-gray will-herondale cassandra-clare bookworms 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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