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  • #1
    Cassandra Clare
    “I have heard sometimes that men who lose an arm of a leg still feel that pain in those limbs, though they are gone,' said Will. 'It is like that sometimes. I can feel Jem with me, though he is gone, and it is like I am missing a part of myself.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

  • #2
    Cassandra Clare
    “You may be right. I think it was round about Christmas when I got my Welsh dragon tattoo.”
    At that, Tessa had to try very hard not to blush. “How did that happen?”
    Will made an airy gesture with his hand. “I was drunk…”
    “Nonsense. You were never really drunk.”
    “On the contrary—in order to learn how to pretend to be inebriated, once must become inebriated at least once, as a reference point. Six-Fingered Nigel had been at the mulled cider—“
    “You can’t mean there’s truly a Six-Fingered Nigel?”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

  • #3
    Cassandra Clare
    “Oh, do you have A Tale of Two Cities?"
    "That silly thing? Men going around getting their heads chopped off for love? Ridiculus." Will unpeeled himself from the door and made his way toward Tessa where she stood by the bookshelves. He gestured expansively at the vast number of volumes all around him. "No, here you'll find all sorts of advice about how to chop off someone else's head if you need to; much more useful.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #4
    Cassandra Clare
    “Will's face turned grave. "Be careful with it, though. It's six hundred years old and the only copy of its kind. Losing or damaging it is punishable by death under the Law."
    Tessa thrust the book away from her as if it were on fire. "You can't be serious."
    "You're right. I'm not." Will leapt down from the ladder and landed lightly in front of her. "You do believe everything I say, though, don't you? Do I seem unusually trustworthy to you, or are you just a naive sort?”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #5
    Cassandra Clare
    “He was Will, in all his perfect imperfection; Will, whose heart was as easy to break as it was carefully guarded; Will, who loved not wisely but entirely and with everything he had.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

  • #6
    Cassandra Clare
    “No, i mean enterprising." said Will. "When I mean morally deficient, I say,`Now, that is something i would have done´”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #7
    Cassandra Clare
    “For five years it had been his absolute truth. Jem and Will. Will and Jem. Will Herondale lives, therefore Jem Carstairs lives also.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

  • #8
    Cassandra Clare
    “I am brave," Will said...
    "Yes, you are," Magnus said, and kissed him. It wasn't the most dramatic kiss, but Will failed his free arm as if a bee had landed on him; Magnus had to hope Camille would assume this was passion. When they broke apart, Will looked stunned. So did Camille, for that matter.
    ...
    Will swung sideways...He dashed across the room, retrieved it, and tucked it into Magnus's waistcoat pocket. Then, with a wink at Camille that, Magnus thought, God alone knew how she would interpret, he sauntered out of the room.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

  • #9
    Cassandra Clare
    London

    The Institute

    Year of Our Lord 1878


    “Mother, Father, my chwaer fach,

    It’s my seventeenth birthday today. I know that to write to you is to break the law, I know that I will likely tear this letter into pieces when it is finished. As I have done on all my birthdays past since I was twelve. But I write anyway, to commemorate the occasion - the way some make yearly pilgrimages to a grave, to remember the death of a loved one. For are we not dead to each other?

    I wonder if when you woke this morning you remembered that today, seventeen years ago, you had a son? I wonder if you think of me and imagine my life here in the Institute in London? I doubt you could imagine it. It is so very different from our house surrounded by mountains, and the great clear blue sky and the endless green. Here, everything is black and gray and brown, and the sunsets are painted in smoke and blood. I wonder if you worry that I am lonely or, as Mother always used to, that I am cold, that I have gone out into the rain again without a hat? No one here worries about those details. There are so many things that could kill us at any moment; catching a chill hardly seems important.

    I wonder if you knew that I could hear you that day you came for me, when I was twelve. I crawled under the bed to block out the sound of you crying my name, but I heard you. I heard mother call for her fach, her little one. I bit my hands until they bled but I did not come down. And, eventually, Charlotte convinced you to go away. I thought you might come again but you never did. Herondales are stubborn like that.

    I remember the great sighs of relief you would both give each time the Council came to ask me if I wished to join the Nephilim and leave my family, and each time I said no and I send them away. I wonder if you knew I was tempted by the idea of a life of glory, of fighting, of killing to protect as a man should. It is in our blood - the call to the seraph and the stele, to marks and to monsters.

    I wonder why you left the Nephilim, Father? I wonder why Mother chose not to Ascend and to become a Shadowhunter? Is it because you found them cruel or cold? I have no fathom side. Charlotte, especially, is kind to me, little knowing how much I do not deserve it. Henry is mad as a brush, but a good man. He would have made Ella laugh. There is little good to be said about Jessamine, but she is harmless. As little as there is good to say about her, there is as much good to say about Jem: He is the brother Father always thought I should have. Blood of my blood - though we are no relation. Though I might have lost everything else, at least I have gained one thing in his friendship.

    And we have a new addition to our household too. Her name is Tessa. A pretty name, is it not? When the clouds used to roll over the mountains from the ocean? That gray is the color of her eyes.

    And now I will tell you a terrible truth, since I never intend to send this letter. I came here to the Institute because I had nowhere else to go. I did not expect it to ever be home, but in the time I have been here I have discovered that I am a true Shadowhunter. In some way my blood tells me that this is what I was born to do.If only I had known before and gone with the Clave the first time they asked me, perhaps I could have saved Ella’s life. Perhaps I could have saved my own.



    Your Son,

    Will

    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

  • #10
    Cassandra Clare
    “Change is no loss, Will. Not always.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

  • #11
    Cassandra Clare
    “I am not a certified idiot—"
    "Lack of certification hardly proves intelligence," Will muttered.”
    Cassandra Clare

  • #12
    Cassandra Clare
    Dw i'n dy garu di am byth," he said. "I love you. Always.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

  • #13
    Cassandra Clare
    “If love is great, then it is worth fighting for.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #14
    Cassandra Clare
    “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.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

  • #15
    Cassandra Clare
    “Jem is my greatest sin.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

  • #16
    Cassandra Clare
    “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.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

  • #17
    Cassandra Clare
    “You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

  • #18
    Cassandra Clare
    “Dreams can be dangerous things.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #19
    Cassandra Clare
    Mizpah," 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.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #20
    Cassandra Clare
    “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.”
    Cassandra Clare, The Whitechapel Fiend

  • #21
    Cassandra Clare
    “I don’t understand what makes them come out like that!”“Hunger,” said Jem. “Were you thinking about blood?”“No.”“Were you thinking about eating me?” Will inquired.“No!"“No one would blame you,” said Jem. “He’s very annoying.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #22
    Cassandra Clare
    “It would be unjust to blame the past for choices made in the present. Nor can we justify present choices by invoking the sins of the past.”
    Cassandra Clare, The Wicked Ones

  • #23
    Cassandra Clare
    “It's a very strange thing to fall in love, it changes you.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

  • #24
    Cassandra Clare
    “There are so many worse things than death. Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

  • #25
    Cassandra Clare
    “I thought you needed me," Jem said. "There is a wall you have built about yourself, Will, and I have never asked you why. But no one should shoulder every burden alone. I thought you would let me inside if I became your parabatai, and then you would have at least someone to lean upon. I did wonder what my death would mean for you. I used to fear it, for your sake. I feared you would be left alone inside that wall. But now ... something has changed. I do not know why. But I know that it is true."
    "That what is true?" Will's fingers were still digging into Jem's wrist.
    "That the wall is coming down.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

  • #26
    Veronica Roth
    “I regret..." Tobias tilts his head, and sighs. "I regret my choice."
    "What Choice?"
    "Dauntless," he says. "I was born Abnegation. I was planning on leaving Dauntless, and becoming factionless. But I met her, and... I felt like maybe I could make something more of my decision."

    Her.
    Veronica Roth, Insurgent

  • #27
    Veronica Roth
    “You die, I die too.”
    Veronica Roth, Insurgent

  • #28
    Veronica Roth
    “Are you asking me to undress, Tris?'
    A nervous laugh gurgles from my throat. 'Only ... partially”
    Veronica Roth

  • #29
    Veronica Roth
    “She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love... That it should be done from necessity, not without exhausting all other options. That it should be done for people who need your strength because they don't have enough of their own.”
    Veronica Roth, Allegiant

  • #30
    Veronica Roth
    “Okay. Then...I can talk. Ask me something."
    "Okay." He laughs shakily in my ear. "Why is your heart racing Tris?"
    I cringe and say, "Well, I...I barely know you. I barely know you and I'm crammed up against you in a box, Four, what do you think?"...
    "Maybe you were cut out for Candor," he says, "because you're a terrible liar.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent



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