Quotes About The Clockwork Angel

#1. Tessa could not remember a time when she had not loved the clockwork angel.

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#2. I do not believe you can threaten people into goodness. - Jem Carstairs

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#3. The more beautiful the skin is, the more deadly it is. That's what Will's like. All that pretty face and whatnot just hides how twisted up and rotten he is on the inside.

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#4. Whither thou goest, I will go;
Where thou diest, will I die
And there will I be buried:
The Angel do so to me, and more also,
If aught but death part thee and me.

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#5. When to people tell the same lie ... "
"They are working together," Will finished

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

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#8. 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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#9. Whatever you are physically ... male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy
all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but you are the light inside.

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#10. Your angel cannot protect you against that which neither god nor the devil had made

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#11. So you're a Shadowhunter,' Nate said. 'De Quincey told me that you lot were monsters.'
'Was that before or after he tried to eat you?' Will inquired.

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#12. Am I blind?" Wills voice floated out of the darkness tinged with annoyance. "Im not going to be at all pleassed if youve blinded me, Henry."
"No, " Henry sounded worried. "No, the phospher seems to, well, it seems to have turned all the lights in the room off." - Clockwork Angel

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#13. 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.

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#14. I have lost everything. Lost everything.
Everything. - William Herondale

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#15. It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.

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#16. Do reasons matter when there's nothing that can be done to change things.

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#17. The light that burned twice as bright burned half as long.

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#18. But I will never have a bride.

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#19. Perhaps it is not such a bad thing to be set apart.

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#20. Sometimes, when I have to do something I don't want to do, I pretend I'm a character from a book. It's easier to know what they would do.

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#21. For that was love, wasnt it
to burn bright in someone else's eyes?

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#22. Well, she's not responding to my advances," he observed more brightly than he felt, "so she must be dead."
"Or she's a woman of good taste and sense.

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#23. I played it for my bride, and one day you will play for yours.

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#24. Will bounded up onto one of the ladders and yanked a book off the shelf. "I'll find you something else to read. Catch." He had let it fall without looking and Tessa had to dart forward to seize it before it hit the floor. - Clockwork Angel

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#25. Will rolled up his sleeves. "We'll probably have to knock down the door
"
"Or," said Jem, reaching out and giving the knob a twist, "not."
The door swung open onto a rectangle of darkness.
"Now, that's simply laziness," said Will.

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#26. 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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#27. If you have a soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. Whatever the color, the shape, the design of the shade that conceals it, the flame inside the lamp remains the same. You are that flame.

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#28. He was all silver and ashes, not like Will's strong colors of blue and black and gold.

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#29. Their beauty had always seemed to him like the beauty of pressed flowers-lovely, but dead.

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#30. He had lost Will Herondale. And he did not know if he could ever get him back.

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#31. Never trust a duck.

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#32. Words have the power to change us." - Tessa Gray

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#33. Blue does not go with everything," Will told her. "It does not go with red, for instance."
"I have a red and blue striped waistcoat," Henry interjected, reaching for the peas.
"And if that isn't proof that those two colors should never be seen together under Heaven, I don't know what is.

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