Jem Carstairs Tessa Gray Quotes

#1. I loved Jem- she said- I love him still, and he loved me, but i'm nobody's Will. My heart is my own. It is beyond you to control it. It has been beyond me to control it

Cassandra Clare

#2. 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

#3. Jem is nothing but goodness. That he struck you last night only shows how capable you are of driving even saints to madness.

Cassandra Clare

#4. But if you're foolish enough to want me then I will not question my good fortune.

Cassandra Clare

#5. He touched her as he usually touched his beloved violin, with a soft and urgent grace that left her breathless.

Cassandra Clare

#6. Intense interest in any subject is indispensable if you're really going to excel in it.

Charlie Munger

#7. There are so many worse things than death. Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse.

Cassandra Clare

#8. [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.

Cassandra Clare

#9. 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

#10. I appreciate that the New York Daily News will show dead bodies but blur the cover of a French parody magazine. Just out of respect, right guys?

Jim Norton

#11. The way of the heart is the way of courage.
It is to live in insecurity;
it is to live in love, and trust;
it is to move in the unknown.

Osho

#12. I shall see you on Blackfriars Bridge, Tessa.

Cassandra Clare

#13. Someone else's personal fantasy may well be your personal nightmare.

Cole McCade

#14. He so routinely disparaged other people's importance that he didn't notice he was degrading me.

Maya Angelou

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

Cassandra Clare

#16. 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.

Cassandra Clare

#17. I love you. And I don't want to lose you.

Cassandra Clare

#18. Life was an uncertain thing.

Cassandra Clare

#19. To call an artist morbid because he deals with morbidity as his subject-matter is as silly as if one called Shakespeare mad because he wrote 'King Lear.

Oscar Wilde

#20. 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

#21. Books. It's always easier to tell people that a character is funny rather than attempt to hit the punchline of a joke that character would've said. But if we all simply told, books would cease to exist. And so would empathy. And feeling.

Joyce Rachelle

#22. He flushed, the colour dark against his pale skin. 'I mean. Tessa Gray, will you do me the honour of becoming my wife?' Jem ...

Cassandra Clare

#23. I've had such an odd career.

Sally Field

#24. They were in love, of the realest, truest kind.

Cassandra Clare

#25. Harry and Draco have a very weird love/hate relationship.

Tom Felton

#26. His eyes went soft and silver as she spoke. "Zhe shi jie shang, wo shi zui ai ne de," he whispered.
She understood it. In all the world, you are what I love the most.

Cassandra Clare

#27. 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?

Cassandra Clare

#28. You don't even like poetry," Tessa said, her voice catching on a half laugh of relief.
"No. But you make me want to write it. Does that not count for anything?

Cassandra Clare

#29. 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.

Cassandra Clare

#30. Singing and acting on a show is like theater; it doesn't get any better.

Shanola Hampton

#31. 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

#32. The weirdest thing about a mind is that you can have the most intense things going on in there but no one else can see them. The world shrugs.

Matt Haig

#33. You are home for me now." --Jem to Tessa

Cassandra Clare

#34. To be human you must bear witness to justice.

Cornel West

#35. 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

#36. 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.

Cassandra Clare

#37. She knew she could not be Jem for Will. No one could. But slowly the hollow places in his heart were filling in.

Cassandra Clare

#38. Your place is with me. It always will be. -Jem Carstairs

Cassandra Clare

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

Cassandra Clare

#40. One great difference between a wise man and a fool is, the former only wishes for what he may possibly obtain; the latter desires impossibilities.

Democritus