Top 100 Quotes About Tessa Gray
#1. 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
#4. I am Tessa Gray," she said in a low, clear voice. "And I believe in the importance of stories.
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#6. It is better than going on loving someone who cannot love me back. Better wasting all that feelings
-Tessa gray
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#7. Simon's love life was complicated, but there was a pang, just for a moment, for this woman talking graphic novels with him.
Ah, well. Tessa Gray, foxy nerd, was probably dating someone already.
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#8. I know how you are with your words, and, Will- I love all of them. Every word you say. The silly ones, the mad ones, the beautiful ones, and the ones that are only for me. I love them, and I love you. - Tessa Gray
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#9. For all my life," he said, "when someone has said the word 'beautiful', it is your face I have seen. You are my own very definition of beautiful, Tessa Gray.
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#10. 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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#11. 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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#12. 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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#15. 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.
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#16. Would you like to meet him? I could summon him up in a trice of you like. Being a warlock, and all.
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#17. Hmph," she said. "I'd like to see you learn how to manage sitting and standing up straight in stays and petticoats and a dress with a foot's worth of train!"
"So would I," said Gideon from across the room.
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#18. 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?
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#19. 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?
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#20. [ ... ] He tasted like snowflakes and wine, like winter and Will and London.
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#21. 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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#22. Tessa touched his wrist lightly with her hand. "Be brave," she said. "It's not a duck, is it?
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#23. 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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#24. Let me see if I have this quite correct", said Tessa after a pause. "Jessamine found youth the invitation in your hand, so you struck her over the head with a mirror and tied her to her bed?"
Sophie nodded.
"Good Lord,
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#25. 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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#26. For an antique, you would fetch quite a price at Sotheby's. All your parts are quite in working order.
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#27. 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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#28. 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.
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#29. There is no curse on me, Tessa. The demon tricked me. There never was a curse. All these years, I've been a fool. But not so much a fool that I didn't know that the first thing I needed to do once I had learned the truth was tell you how I really felt
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#30. You'll never understand us from reading a book,' Will had said, but that wasn't the point really. He didn't know what books meant to her, that books were symbols of truth and meaning, that this one acknowledged that she existed and there were others like her in the world.
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#31. He bent down to her; their mouths met again, and the shock of sensation was so strong, so overpowering, that she shut her eyes against it as if she could hide in the darkness. He murmured and gathered her against him.
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#32. 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.
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#33. Will looked up in apparent relief when Charlotte and Tessa came in. "Will," Charlotte said, "You remember Miss Gray?"
"My recollection of her," said Will, "is most vivid indeed.
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#34. Do stop flirting with my husband," said Tessa.
"I shall not," Magnus declared, "but I will pause briefly so that I may catch up on your news.
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#35. I don't remember ordering the bride of an evil maniac," said Magnus. "It was definitely beef and broccoli. What about you, Tessa? Did you order the bride of an evil maniac?
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#36. 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
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#37. You haven't broken his heart yet, have you?"
"No," Tessa said. Just torn my own in two. "I haven't broken his heart at all.
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#38. It's that I think Will is angry with me," Tessa explained. "So whatever he told you - "
He laughed. "Will is angry with everyone," he said. "I don't let it color my judgment.
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#39. I can tell you that the end of a live is the sun of the love that was lived in it, that whatever you think you have sworn, being here at the end of Jem's life is not what is important.
It was being here for every other moment. Since you met him you have never left him and never not loved him
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#41. Tessa never could look at him without a tightening in her chest, a painful stutter of her heat.
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#42. Tess? A soft voice at the door; she looked up and saw Will there, silhouetted in the light from the corridor.
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#45. And to the devil with it if she is!" said the Consul. "One girl, who is not Nephilim, is not, cannot, be our priority."
"She is my priority!" Will shouted.
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#46. The Will I fell in love with, she almost said."And be Will," she finished instead. "Or I shall hit you with my umbrella.
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#47. Will looked as if he were being asked to believe in something impossible - snow in summertime, a London winter without rain.
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#48. 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.
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#50. 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.
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#51. 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.
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#52. She glanced over at Zachariah, who was busy patting Church. The cat had climbed up onto the champagne table and was gleefully knocking over glasses. Her look was one of exasperation and fondness mixed together.
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#53. 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.
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#54. She knew she could not be Jem for Will. No one could. But slowly the hollow places in his heart were filling in.
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#55. One does no question miracles, or complain that they are no constructed perfectly to one's liking.
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#56. Your place is with me. It always will be. -Jem Carstairs
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#57. Anyone that looked like that wouldn't need to tie up girls and imprison them in order to get them to marry him
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#58. Tessa put a hand against the wall as she made her way numbly down the stairs. What had she almost done? What had she nearly told Will?
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#59. 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.
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#60. Julian: "Wikipedia knows about everything. It might be run by warlocks."
Emma: "You think that's what they do all day in the Spiral Labyrinth? Run Wikipedia?"
Julian: "I admit it seems like a letdown.
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#61. I came to see that I could not bring someone home when they were already there.
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#62. If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?
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#63. There will always be those who want to tell you who you are based on your name or the blood in your veins. Do not let other people decide who you are. Decide for yourself.
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#64. It is not easy to be different, and even less so to be unique.
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#65. 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.
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#67. I need some beef and broccoli before I face any more Mr. Darcy. It's a truth universally acknowledged that if you watch too much television on am empty stomach, your head falls off."
"If your head fall off, " Tessa said, "the hairdressing industry would go into an economic meltdown
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#68. 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.
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#69. 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?
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#70. Jem is nothing but goodness. That he struck you last night only shows how capable you are of driving even saints to madness.
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#71. The handsome young fellow who's trying to rescue you from a hideous fate is never wrong.
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#72. But if you're foolish enough to want me then I will not question my good fortune.
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#73. Some are just born bad, and that's all there is to it.
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#74. Tessa is gone, and every moment she is gone is a knife ripping me apart from the inside.
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#76. He touched her as he usually touched his beloved violin, with a soft and urgent grace that left her breathless.
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#77. You are so beautiful," he sighed into her hair.
She tried to check her girlish giggle, unsuccessfully. "Gray, it's dark as
pitch. You can't even see me."
"Even in the dark," he murmured against her skin. "You are the most
beautiful woman I've ever known, even in the dark.
Tessa Dare
#78. There are so many worse things than death. Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse.
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#79. I thought you two might be up against it. Benedict Lightwood's parties have a reputation for danger. When I heard you were here - "
"We're well equipped to handle danger," Tessa said.
Magnus eyed her bosom openly.
"I can see that," he said.
"Armed to the teeth, as it were.
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#80. Let me give you a piece of advice. The handsome young fellow who's trying to rescue you from a hideous fate is never wrong. Not even if he says the sky is purple and made of hedgehogs.
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#81. [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.
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#82. 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.
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#83. Gray's teeth ground like millstones. At this rate, they wouldn't need a hanging. The effort required to hold his tongue in the face of these scurrilous falsehoods-it was likely to kill him.
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#85. 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
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#86. I want your word. And if you cross me, by God I swear I'll hunt you down in hell."
"You have my word. Do I have yours?"
Gray gave him an easy grin. "My word as a gentleman.
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#88. Tessa could not remember a time when she had not loved the clockwork angel.
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#90. 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 -
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#91. I can't - I'll chop off my own foot!"
"If you're going to chop off anyone's foot, chop off Benedict's," Will muttered.
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#92. His blue eyes were very dark ... Will's were the colour of the sky just on the edge of the night ...
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#94. 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?
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#95. He touched her as he would touch his violin: it was how he knew to touch something that was precious and loved.
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#96. He loved her enough to know she was better off without him
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#97. 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.
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#99. Every profane word Gray had ever heard, read, uttered, or invented spewed forth from his mouth.
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