Infernal Devices Tessa 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

Cassandra Clare

#2. Because women never say what they think.

Cassandra Clare

#3. Every day offers you 10,000 reasons to cry, but if you can find just one reason to laugh then you will be all right.

Maya Angelou

#4. If you come to a river and find a boat at the edge, you will use that boat and it will serve you well, but once across the river, do you put the boat on your shoulders and carry it with you on the rest of your journey?

Christopher Moore

#5. Will-, Tessa began but it was too late, Church made a yowling noise at being woken, and lashed out with his claws. Will began to swear. Tessa left, unable to hide the slightest of smiles as she went.

Cassandra Clare

#6. Gideon Lightwood said he was at the Institute in Madrid. What on earth was he doing there?'
'Faffing about, most likely', said Will.

Cassandra Clare

#7. And from the look on his face I could see he was one of the lucky ones, one of those people who like doing what they're good at. That's rare. When you see that in a person, you can't miss it.

David Wroblewski

#8. It is better than going on loving someone who cannot love me back. Better wasting all that feelings
-Tessa gray

Cassandra Clare

#9. In my own work, I don't have favorite characters, but I have characters that I relate to the most. And I relate the most to Simon from 'The Mortal Instruments,' and also Tessa from 'The Infernal Devices.' They're more sort of bookish and shy characters.

Cassandra Clare

#10. It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could never love anyone, never be loved by anyone again.

Cassandra Claire

#11. The people's awe and innate fear will hold injustice back by day, by night, so long as the people leave the laws intact, just as they are: muddy the cleanest spring, and all you'll have to drink is muddy water.

Aeschylus

#12. The Infernal Devices began with a daydream of Jem and Tessa on Blackfriars Bridge, and I think it is fitting that it ends there too.

Cassandra Clare

#13. I came to see that I could not bring someone home when they were already there.

Cassandra Clare

#14. Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America.

Bernie Sanders

#15. Of course, the guests were also staring because they know of my relationship with Camille, and are wondering what we might be doing here in the library ... alone. He wiggled his eyebrows at Tessa.

Cassandra Clare

#16. Few can claim a single angel who guards them. But you can.

Cassandra Clare

#17. 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.

Cassandra Clare

#18. 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?

Cassandra Clare

#19. The priest is the personification of falsehood.

Giuseppe Garibaldi

#20. It's so daunting to walk into a classroom or a school auditorium. It's like the world's weirdest blind date. I know all the students are thinking, 'Who is this tool standing up in front of us?'

Libba Bray

#21. You see it, don't you, James? Without Tessa there is nothing for me
no joy, no light, no life. If you loved me, you would let me have her. You can't love her as I do. No one could. If you are truly my brother, you would do this for me.

Cassandra Clare

#22. The triangle of success for an Entrepreneur is not only composed of his Net Worth, but also his Self Worth, and Net Works.

Farshad Asl

#23. Reason must be the universal rule and guide; all things must be done according to reason without allowing oneself to be swayed by emotion.

Cardinal Richelieu

#24. I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose ... When you connect with that love and that compassion, that's when everything unfolds.

Ellen DeGeneres

#25. He touched her as he would touch his violin: it was how he knew to touch something that was precious and loved.

Cassandra Clare

#26. Not all that is mortal is useless.

Cassandra Clare

#27. Life was an uncertain thing.

Cassandra Clare

#28. 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.

Cassandra Clare