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057cfd3 "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." will-herondale Cassandra Clare
4a281bf "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." will-herondale Cassandra Clare
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
a7acc57 Sometimes, when I have to do something I don't want to do, I pretend I'm a character from a book. It's easier to know what they would do. william-herondale 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
ed2977d They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite time magnus-bane will-herondale healing Cassandra Clare
cd7411d 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. humour nathaniel-gray will-herondale wit Cassandra Clare
2f235f1 "Jessamine recoiled from the paper as if it were a snake. "A lady does not read the newspaper. The society pages, perhaps, or the theater news. Not this filth." "But you are not a lady, Jessamine---," Charlotte began. "Dear me," said Will. "Such harsh truths so early in the morning cannot be good for the digestion." jessamine-lovelace will-herondale journalism newspapers 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
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
62c6701 "It's too late," she said. "Don't say that." His voice was half a whisper. "I love you, Tessa. I love you." 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
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
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
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
e684d5c Do reasons matter when there's nothing that can be done to change things. william-herondale will-herondale Cassandra Clare
3fece3e "This about Tessa. I knew it was." Will flushed, a wash of color across the pallor of this face. "Not just her." "But you love her." Will stared at him. "Of course I do," he said finally. "I had come to think i would never love anyone, but I love her." will-herondale Cassandra Clare
757732c "If Jem dies, I cannot be with Tessa," said Will. "Because it will be as if I were waiting for him to die, or took some joy in his death, if it let me have her. And I will not be that person. I will not profit from his death. So he must live." He lowered his arm, his sleeve bloody. "It is the only way any of this can ever mean anything. Otherwise it is only --" "Pointless, needless suffering and pain? I don't suppose it would help if I told you that was the way life is. The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away," Magnus said. "I want more than that," said Will. "You made me want more than that. You showed me I was only ever cursed because I had chosen to believe myself so. You told me there was possibility, meaning. And now you would turn your back on what you created." clockwork-princess the-infernal-devices magnus-bane 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
85d2e00 "And indeed it was, the arrow still protruding from its wet, grayish skin, humping its body along with incredible speed. A flick of its tail caught the edge of a statue, sending it flying into the dry ornamental pool, where it shattered into dust. "By the Angel, it just crushed Sophocles," noted Will. "Has no one respect for the classics these days?" will-herondale Cassandra Clare
ed22be0 We live and breathe words. It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could never love anyone, never be loved again. It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. will-herondale 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
2298e4b "Excellent. I've been told I have a lovely, melodic reading voice." He flipped the book open to the front page, where the title was printed in ornate script. Across from it was a long dedication, the ink faded now and barely legible, though Clary could make out the signature: " will-herondale 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
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
9662f09 While the Clave disapproves of trespassers, oddly they take an even darker view of beheading and skinning people. They're peculiar that way. humour will-herondale sarcasm Cassandra Clare
cd8c6fb "Bright star," Magnus said, and his eyes were thoughtful, as if he were remembering something, or someone. "Those of you who are mortal, you burn so fiercely. And you fiercer than most, Will. I will not ever forget you." will-herondale 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
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
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
f07744e Love potions? For Will Herondale? T'aint my way to turn down payment, but any man who looks like you has got no need of love potions, and that's a fact. will-herondale Cassandra Clare
a22b15b "Jem shook his head. "You bit de Quincey" he said. "You fool. He's a VAMPIRE" will-herondale 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
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
02531a5 "By the Angel, Bridget's depressing," said Henry, setting down his newspaper directly on his plate and causing the edge to soak through with egg yolk. Charlotte opened her mouth as if to object, and closed it again. "It's all heartbreak, death and unrequited love." "Well, that is what most songs are about," said Will. "Requited love is nice, but it doesn't make much of a ballad." -- will-herondale Cassandra Clare
1a2fbcd Oh, I can never get enough. Which, incidentally, is what your sister said when-- innuendo 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
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
ba7f000 "Tess?" A soft voice at the door; she looked up and saw Will there, silhouetted in the light from the corridor." will-herondale Cassandra Clare
99f521b I thought... that we could at least talk about books. 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
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
16d6ecc If love is great, then it is worth fighting for. will-herondale 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
597fe1c "I want you to say dreadfully mad, funny things and make up songs and be--' The Will I fell in love with, she almost said. "And be Will," she finished instead. "Or I shall hit you with my umbrella." *** "You would make a very ugly woman." "I would not. I would be stunning." Tessa laughed. "There," she said. "There is Will. Isn't that better? Don't you think so?" "I don't know," Will said, eyeing her. "I'm afraid to answer that. I've heard that when I speak, it makes American women wish to strike me with umbrellas." will-herondale Cassandra Clare
2c2ce44 "Will tossed the bloody cloth aside. "And you wonder why we aren't friends." "I just wondered," Gabriel said, in more subdued voice, "if perhaps you have ever had enough." "Enough of what?" "Enough of behaving as you do." Will crossed his arms over his chest. His eyes glistening dangerously. "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 his shirt, and hauled him inside." gabriel-lightwood will-herondale Cassandra Clare
0b2e38b "Indeed." Will let his cutlery clatter onto his plate. "The Consul? Breaking up our breakfast time? Whatever next? The Inquisitor over for tea? Picnics with the Silent Brothers?" "Duck pies in the park," said Jem under his breath, and he and Will smiled at each other, just a flash, before the door opened and the Consul swept it." will-herondale Cassandra Clare
3c27d6b "Marry me," he said. "Marry me, Tess. Marry me and be 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." will-herondale Cassandra Clare
b4aff04 Gideon Lightwood said he was at the Institute in Madrid. What on earth was he doing there?' 'Faffing about, most likely', said Will. tessa-grey the-infernal-devices clockwork-prince 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
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
0a352f6 Wo men shi jie bai xiong di-we are more than brothers, Will. page-245 clockwork-princess jem-carstairs will-herondale Cassandra Clare
a347b95 "Will," she whispered against his mouth. She wanted him closer to her so badly, it was like an ache, a painful hot ache that spread from her stomach to speed her heart and knot her hands in his hair and set her skin burning. "Will, you need not be so careful. I will not break." will-herondale Cassandra Clare
3e62988 "Nice work in there, Herondale, setting the place on fire," Gabriel observed. "Good thing we were there to clean up after you, or the whole plan would have gone down in flames, along with the shreds of your reputation." "Are you implying that shreds of my reputation remain intact?" Will demanded with mock horror. "Clearly I have done something wrong. Or not doing something wrong as the case may be." He banged on the side of the carriage. "Thomas! We must away at once to the nearest brothel! I seek scandal and low companionship." will-herondale 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
8f89d52 "When Will says 'enterprising', he means 'morally deficient.'" "No, I mean enterprising," said Will. "When I mean morally deficient, I say, 'Now, that's something I would have done." the-infernal-devices will-herondale Cassandra Clare
6513856 "Father . . . ," Gabriel began. "Father is a worm." Will gave a short laugh. He was in gear as if he had just come from the practice room, and his hair curled damply against his temples. He was not looking at Tessa, but she had grown used to that. Will hardly ever looked at her unless he had to. "It's good to see you've come round to our view of things, Gabriel, but this is an unusual way of announcing it." Gideon shot Will a reproachful look before turning back to his brother. "What do you mean, Gabriel? What did Father do?" Gabriel shook his head. "He's a worm," he said again, tonelessly. "I know. He has brought shame on the name of Lightwood, and lied to both of us. He shamed and destroyed our mother. But we need not be like him." Gabriel pulled away from his brother's grip, his teeth suddenly flashing in an angry scowl. "You're not listening to me," he said. "He's a worm. A worm. A bloody great serpentlike thing. Since Mortmain stopped sending the medicine, he's been getting worse. Changing. Those sores upon his arms, they started to cover him. His hands, his neck, h-his face . . ." Gabriel's green eyes sought Will. "It was the pox, wasn't it? You know all about it, don't you? Aren't you some sort of expert?" "Well, you needn't act as if I invented it," said Will. "Just because I believed it existed. There are accounts of it--old stories in the library--" gideon-lightwood gabriel-lightwood will-herondale Cassandra Clare
48d50c0 "I should have known what you would do," Jem said in a low voice. "I always know what you will do. I should have known you would put your hands into the fire." "And I should have known you would throw that packet away," said Will, without rancor. "It was--it was a madly noble thing to do. I understand why you did it." "I was thinking of Tessa." Jem drew his knees up and rested his chin on them, then laughed softly. "Madly noble. Isn't that meant to be your area of expertise? Suddenly I am the one who does ridiculous things and you tell me to stop?" "God," said Will. "When did we change places?" The firelight played over Jem's face and hair as he shook his head. "It is a very strange thing, to be in love," he said. "It changes you." Will looked down at Jem, and what he felt, more than jealousy, more than anything else, was a wistful desire to commiserate with his best friend, to speak of the feelings he held in his heart. For were they not the same feelings? Did they not love the same way, the same person? But, "I wish you wouldn't risk yourself," was all he said. Jem stood up. "I have always wished that about you." Will raised his eyes, so drowsy with sleep and the tiredness that came with healing runes that he could see Jem only as a haloed figure of light. "Are you going?" "Yes, to sleep." Jem touched his fingers lightly to Will's healing hands. "Let yourself rest, Will." parabatai will-herondale Cassandra Clare
3b26ac6 "You cannot reduce the situation to worm jokes, Will. This is Gabriel and Gideon's father we're discussing." "We're not just discussing him; we're chasing him through an ornamental sculpture garden because he's turned into a worm." will-herondale Cassandra Clare
7de209b Wherever we are, we are as one parabatai will-herondale Cassandra Clare
186af4c Those of us who do not live forever do not like change perhaps as much as those of you who do. will-herondale goodbye Cassandra Clare
3b94052 When I first arrived in London, I so quickly tired of being surrounded by so many people that it was only with great difficulty that I refrained from seizing the next unfortunate who crossed my path and committing violent acts upon their person. will-herondale Cassandra Clare
63469b6 "Spoon!" James said, running at his uncle Gabriel and jabbing him in the thigh. Gabriel mussed the boy's hair affectionately. "You're such a good boy," he said. "I often wonder how you could possibly be Will's." "Spoon," James said, leaning against his uncle's leg lovingly. "No, Jamie," Will urged. "Your honorable father has been impugned. Attack, attack!" james-herondale will-herondale 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
32a9078 In Will's experience, when someone who ought to be afraid wasn't, the reason was rarely bravery. Usually it meant that they knew something you didn't. will-herondale Cassandra Clare
c8fad22 "Dear me," said Will, and he took another bite of his apple. "Is it because I'm better-looking than you?" william-herondale the-infernal-devices will-herondale Cassandra Clare
05f69d6 Achilles was murdered with a poisoned arrow, and Jason died alone, killed by his own rotting ship. Such is the fate of heroes. will-herondale 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
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
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
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
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
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
1840f07 Jem spoke with enormous care; talking to Will about anything personal was like trying not to startle away a wild animal. on-the-bridge 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
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
8d9ea3e He said there are thousands of Shadowhunters, but great love comes once in a lifetime if one is lucky, and one would be a fool to let it go. on-the-bridge will-herondale Cassandra Clare
5f1094d "Will!" Charlotte threw up her hands. "Why didn't you say so?" "You know, the books on demon pox are in the library," Will said with an injured tone. "I wasn't preventing anyone from reading them" humor 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
6b79e01 She had fallen asleep with her head on his arm, the clockwork angel, still around her throat, resting against his shoulder just to the left of his collarbone. As she moved away, the clockwork angel slipped free and she saw to her surprise that where it had lain against his skin it had left a mark behind, no bigger than a shilling, in the shape of a pale white star. will-herondale 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
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
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
8e48fb9 "Love potions? For Will 'erondale? 'Tain't my way to turn down payment, but any man who looks like you 'as got no need of love potions, and that's a fact." "No," Will said, a little desperation in his voice. "I was looking for the opposite, really -- something that might put an end to being in love." "An 'atred potion?" Mol still sounded amused. "I was hoping for something more akin to indifference? Tolerance?" She made a snorting noise, astonishingly human for a ghost. "I 'ardly like to tell you this, Nephilim, but if you want a girl to 'ate you, there's easy enough ways of making it 'appen. You don't need my help with the poor thing." And with that she vanished, spinning away into the mists among the graves. Will, looking after her, sighed. "Not for her," he said under his breath, though there was no one to hear him, "for me..." And he leaned his head against the cold iron gate." tid the-infernal-devices clockwork-prince will-herondale 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
1bf28bb It is always better to live the truth than to live a lie. And that lie would have kept him alone forever. He may have had nearly nothing for 5 years, but now he can have everything. A boy who looks like that... Magnus. will-herondale Cassandra Clare
2fc579a He had lost Will Herondale. And he did not know if he could ever get him back. will-herondale 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
8eb2972 wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness madness tessa-gray clockwork-prince infernal-devices will-herondale misery 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
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
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
2db0152 "It was Will, filling the doorway with his lanky, broad-shouldred frame. His blue eyes where thunderous. "What are you doing here?" he demanded. So much for the brief peace they had achieved the night before. "I am practicing," Cecily said. "You told me I would get no better without practice." "Not you. Gabriel Lightworm over here." Will jerked his chin toward the other boy. "Sorry. ." humor gabriel-lightwood will-herondale 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
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
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
21ce238 "You swore to stay with me," he said. "When we made our oath, as parabatai. Our souls are knit. We are one person, James." "We are two people," said Jem. "Two people with a covenant between us." Will knew he sounded like a child, but he could not help it. "A covenant that says you must not go where I cannot come with you." "Until death," Jem replied gently. "Those are the words of the oath. 'Until aught but death part thee and me.' Someday, Will, I will go where none can follow me, and I think it will be sooner rather than later." tid parabatai will-herondale Cassandra Clare
8a8b1af "Hell," he said. "Just when it was getting interesting, too." And he leaped into the water after his friend." will-herondale 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
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
3c4617e Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee - for whither thou goest, I will go, and where thou lodgest, I will lodge. Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried. The Angel do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me. parabatai will-herondale Cassandra Clare
70eb6f3 I mean, is there a chance for me? To have another life after this, a better one? 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
581da21 James Carstairs! Jem! Where are you, you disloyal bastard? will-herondale Cassandra Clare
caf37a0 "Even more blood welled up and spilled down his arm, splattering onto the ground. "Camille's carpet," Magnus protested. "It's blood," said Will. "She ought to be thrilled." humor camille-belcourt magnus-bane will-herondale Cassandra Clare
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