Top 100 Herondale Quotes
#1. 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
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#2. Tobias loved her more than he'd loved anything - his family, his duty, even himself. There, perhaps, the Herondale blood ran true.
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#3. Perhaps [James Herondale] loved vice for vice's own sake.
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#4. They all have always loved you, Will Herondale, for you cannot hide what is good about yourself, however hard you try.
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#5. He spared a moment to hope that Edmund Herondale would find comfort in the arms of his beautiful mundane love, that he would live a life that made all he had lost and all he had suffered seem worthwhile.
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#6. ( ... )I don't know who I am. I look like Stephen Herondale, and I act like a Lightwood and I talk like my father- like Valentine. So I see myself in your eyes and i try to be that person and I think faith might be enough to make me who you wnat me to be. (Jace, to Clary)
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#7. Jace Herondale and Clary Fairchild ran the New York Institute.
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#8. James had given his heart to this girl, Magnus thought, and Magnus knew well enough from Edmund and Will what it meant when a Herondale gave his heart away. It was not a gift that could be returned.
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#9. Jon, Julie, and the others in the elite course, who had been devastated to miss Falling Out of Trees with Jace Herondale 101, all stared over as if ready to leap up and save Jace from the bad company he'd fallen into, carry him away in a litter made of chocolate and roses, and bear his children.
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#10. What am I?" he asked. "I am Edmund Herondale, and, my lady, I am always and forever at your service. If you will have me." He smiled, and the smile was slow and devastating. In the dark narrow street long past midnight, his eyes were high summer.
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#12. 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.
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#13. 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.
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#15. She warned me about Mr. Herondale, though, said he'd likely be rude to me, and familiar. She said I could be rude right back, that nobody would mind."
"Someone ought to be rude to him. He's rude enough to everyone else.
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#16. He had lost Will Herondale. And he did not know if he could ever get him back.
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#17. Once, I was not called Tessa Gray but Tessa Herondale.
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#18. I don't know who I am. I look at myself and I see Stephen Herondale, but I act like a Lightwood and talk like my father - like Valentine. So I see who I am in your eyes, and I try to be that person, because you have faith in that person and I think faith might be enough to make me what you want.
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#19. On your feet, Christopher Herondale. We've been looking for you a long time.
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#21. Never trust a duck" - Will Herondale
"We are bound, you and I, over the divide of death, down through whatever generations may come. Forever." - Will Herondale
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#22. And I would do it again. I love you, Jace Wayland-Herondale-Lightwood-whatever you want to call yourself. I don't care. I love you and I will always love you, and pretending it could be any other ways is just a waste of time.
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#23. Little James Herondale, age two, was in fact holding a dagger quite well. He stabbed it into a sofa cushion, sending out a burst of feathers.
"Ducks," he said, pointing at the feathers.
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#24. For five years it had been his absolute truth. Jem and Will. Will and Jem. Will Herondale lives, therefore Jem Carstairs lives also.
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#25. Concerned about my safety, are you?
-William Herondale.
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#26. Jace: Herondale, on the other hand, is melodic. Dulcet, one might say. Think of the sound of 'Clary Herondale.'
Clary: Oh, my god, that sounds horrible.
Jace: We all must sacrifice for love.
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#27. Tessa Herondale Carstairs," he whispered. "You should never worry about borrowing my name when you know that you can have it to keep.
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#28. You are James Herondale, said Uncle Jem. As you always were. Part your mother, part your father, part yourself. I would not change any part of you if I could.
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#29. I wish I was close to Jace Herondale," Julie sighted. "He is so gorgeous."
"He is foxier than a fox fur in a fox hole on fox hunting day," Beatriz agreed dreamily.
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#30. Every student, Shadowhunter and mundane alike, knew the name Herondale. It was Jace's last name. It was the name of heroes.
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#31. [Kieran]his head propped on a stack of poetry books he'd brought from the library. Almost all of them had been inscribed on the inside cover by a James Herondale, who had neatly written out his favorite lines.
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#32. I don't think Will Herondale and a sense of responsibility are even on speaking terms
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#33. It wasn't funny for Bill Herondale!" said Magnus. "Oh, damn it. Now you've got me doing it.
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#34. Magnus did not take such suffering lightly, but even mortals did not die of broken hearts. No matter how cruel Grace had been, he told himself, James would heal. Even though he was a Herondale.
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#35. No fewer than four of my esteemed elders told me I was on no account to ever converse with you, so I vowed that I would know you. My name is Edmund Herondale. May I ask your name? They reffered to you only as 'that disgraceful one-warlock show.
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#36. Love make us a liar. Jace Wayland/Herondale, City of Ashes
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#37. Jace Herondale plays the piano very well."
"And he knows it."
"That sounds like a Herondale." Tessa laughed.
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#38. Magnus thought of James Herondale, burning up with too much light, too much love,too much, too much- while the boy in the portrait was as lovely as a dying poet, with the fragile beauty of a candle about to gutter out.
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#40. To love is to destroy, to destroy is to love. -Jace Herondale
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#41. I watch Jace Herondale play, and I see the ghosts that rise up in the music. Don't you?" "Ghosts are memories, and we carry them because those we love do not leave the world." "Yes," she said. I just wish he were here to see this with us, just here with us one more time.
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#42. The girl behind the scrawled letters. I loved you from the moment I read them. I love you still. - Will Herondale
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#43. [Will Herondale] would say he knew a warlock who was a better friend, and more worth trusting, than many a nephilim warrior.
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#45. Perhaps I think I will enjoy going to the devil," said James Herondale, and his eyes burned like the fires of Hell, enticing, and promising unimaginable suffering. "Though I see no need to take anyone else with me.
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#46. I have lost everything. Lost everything.
Everything. - William Herondale
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#47. Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck.- William Herondale
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#48. Jem thought of Jace Herondale. How he was like Will if someone had struck a match to Will and gilded him in living fire.
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#49. Jem: Come in.
Jace: Where's Brother Zachariah?
Jem: I'm right here. Jace Herondale. And once more a Herondale is the object of my deliverance. I should have anticipated.
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#50. You said I am a good man, but I am not that good a man. And I am - I am catastrophically in love with you.
~William Herondale, Page 413
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#51. Something snapped inside Maryse. He is not a Herondale. He is a Lightwood. Jace Lightwood. He's my son.
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#52. I only have two reactions to bad news. Uncontrollable rage and then a sharp left turn into boiling self-hatred.
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#53. If I might ask
," she began.
Will sighed. "You know you'll ask whether I say it's all right or not.
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#54. 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.
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#55. While the Clave disapproves of trespassers, oddly they take an even darker view of beheading and skinning people. They're peculiar that way.
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#56. There are ways in which we're so alike. We're reckless. We don't think before we act. We'll do anything for people we love. And I never thought how scary that was for the people who loved me until I saw
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#57. I am not perfectly certain I believe in marriage. Why have just one bonbon when you can have the box?
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#58. Those of us who do not live forever do not like change perhaps as much as those of you who do.
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#59. They'll probably put that on my gravestone. 'He Was Heterosexul and Had Low Expectations.
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#60. Perhaps not," said Will, who had ears like a bat's. "But I would make a radiant bride.
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#62. With tears running down her face, Cecily had reminded him of the moment at her wedding to Gabriel when he had delivered a beautiful speech praising the groom, at the end of which he had announced, Dear God, I thought she was marrying Gideon. I take it all back.
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#63. Henry's breath hissed out through his teeth. That ba-bad man, he finished, with a quick glance at Cecily, who rolled her eyes.
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#64. Jem cried out with all his remaining strength. You cannot go where I am going! Nor would I want that for you!
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#65. Perhaps," he said, "we should discuss our arrangements, then.
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#66. Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.
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#67. I will add that I do not believe his admiration of my person, dazzling through I am, to be sincere. He told me I was a beautiful, sparkling lady.
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#68. I will not hang back here in Alicante while Magnus is in danger. Go without me, and you disrespect our parabatai oaths, you disrespect me as a shadowhunter, and you disrespect the fact that this is my battle too.
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#70. Dw i'n dy garu di am byth," he said. "I love you. Always.
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#71. Dear God, woman,"said Will. "Are there any questions you don't want to know the answer to?
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#72. 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
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#73. I don't do what I'm told, but I might do what you want if you ask me nicely.
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#74. 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.
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#75. Carstairs is alright, I suppose. If you like that sort."
"Oh?"
"The taken. The uninterested."
"As opposed to ... you, Gabriel?"
"Well, yes.
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#77. And tell them what?" Jace said witheringly. "That invisible people are bothering you? Trust me, little girl, the police aren't going to arrest someone they can't see
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#78. There's always the dinner rolls," said Will, pointing to a covered basket. "Though I warn you, they're as hard as stones. You could use them to kill black beetles, if any beetles bother you in the middle of the night.
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#79. When Will truly wants something," said Jem, quietly, "when he feels something - he can break your heart.
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#80. Will: 'Singing the praises of our fair city? We treat you well here, don't we, James? I doubt I'd have that kind of luck in Shanghai. What do you call us there again?'
Jem: 'Yang guizi ... foreign devils.
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#81. [ ... ] He tasted like snowflakes and wine, like winter and Will and London.
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#82. Nearly unable to bear the thought of how much he needed her quiet strength, he closed his eyes and leaned his forehead against the cold glass.
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#83. Can one regret a thing that, however unwise, was beautiful? she said, and the hurt in his eyes softened into confusion.
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#84. 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?
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#85. She glanced at Jem expecting to see him blinking in surprise or hurt, but he was only smiling a little as if Will were a kitten that had tried to bite him.
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#86. And what do you like to do, little man?" "I like-books," James had said. While standing in the bookshop, with a parcel of books under his arm. The lady had given him a pitying look. "I read-erm-rather a lot," James went on, dreary master of the obvious. King of the obvious. Emperor of the obvious.
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#87. Tessa touched his wrist lightly with her hand. "Be brave," she said. "It's not a duck, is it?
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#88. He wanted to sit and listen to her talk about books until his ears fell off.
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#89. That was the last cruel irony of Tobias's life: that he doomed the woman he would have died to save.
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#90. 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.
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#91. Achilles was murdered with a poisoned arrow, and Jason died alone, killed by his own rotting ship. Such is the fate of heroes.
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#92. 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.
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#94. So you are dying for love, then, Will said finally, his voice sounding constricted to his own ears.
'Dying a little faster for love. And there are worse things to die for.
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#95. Hang Mortmain," said Will. "And I mean that literally, of course, but also figuratively.
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#96. Gideon Lightwood said he was at the Institute in Madrid. What on earth was he doing there?'
'Faffing about, most likely', said Will.
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#97. When he saw her, he wanted to be with her; when he was with her, he ached to touch her; when he touched even her hand, he wanted to embrace her.
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#98. It's too late," she said.
"Don't say that." His voice was half a whisper. "I love you, Tessa. I love you.
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#99. Their beauty had always seemed to him like the beauty of pressed flowers-lovely, but dead.
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#100. 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 either of yours.
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