Top 100 Will Jem Quotes
#1. 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.
Cassandra Clare
#2. There are a great many aspects to feline life, but the three most important - the Holy Trinity, if you will - are eating, sleeping and washing.
Jem Vanston
#3. I am nothing if not gracious," Will said. His eyes searched Jem's face, that face as familiar to him as his own. "And determined. You will not leave me. Not while I live.
Cassandra Clare
#4. You have been known to call upon Brother Zachariah for a broken toe.
"It was turning green," said Will
Cassandra Clare
#5. But if you're foolish enough to want me then I will not question my good fortune.
Cassandra Clare
#6. 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
#7. Will you come with me? For I cannot wait to share the world with you, Jem. There is so much to see.
Cassandra Clare
#8. There was still about them what had always reminded Magnus of an old legend he'd heard of the red thread of fate: that an invisible scarlet thread bound certain people, and however tangled it became, it could not and would not break.
Cassandra Clare
#9. She hated that will had this effect on her. Hated it. She knew better. She knew what he thought of her. That she was worth nothing. And still a look from him could make her tremble with mingled hatred and longing. It was like poison in her blood, to which Jem was the only antidote.
Cassandra Clare
#10. Will had laid down his heart for her and Jem to walk upon because he loved them more than he loved himself
Cassandra Clare
#11. When to people tell the same lie ... "
"They are working together," Will finished
Cassandra Clare
#12. All my life, since I came to the Institute, you were the mirror of my soul. I saw the good in me in you. In your eyes alone I found grace. When you are gone from me, who will see me like that?
Cassandra Clare
#13. I have heard sometimes that men who lose an arm of a leg still feel that pain in those limbs, though they are gone,' said Will. 'It is like that sometimes. I can feel Jem with me, though he is gone, and it is like I am missing a part of myself.
Cassandra Clare
#14. Ah," said a voice from the doorway, "having your annual 'everyone thinks Will is a lunatic' meeting, are you?
"It's biannual," said Jem. "And no, this is not that meeting.
Cassandra Clare
#15. I am not going to live, and I can choose to be as much for her as I can be, to burn as brightly for her as I wish, and for a shorter time, than to burden her with someone only half-alive for a longer time. It is my choice, William, and you cannot make it for me.
Cassandra Clare
#16. I came to see that I could not bring someone home when they were already there.
Cassandra Clare
#17. I am leaving, but I am living. I will not be gone from you entirely, Will. When you fight now, I will be still by you. When you walk in the world, I will be the light at your side, the ground steady under your feet, the force that drives the sword in your hand.
Cassandra Clare
#18. Charlotte, Will's being
vexing.'
'And the sun has come up in the east,'
said Jem, to no one in particular.
Cassandra Clare
#19. Your place is with me. It always will be. -Jem Carstairs
Cassandra Clare
#20. Will pointed a finger accusingly in their direction. "You're ganging up on me. Is this how it's going to be from now on? I'll be the odd man out? Dear God, I'll have to befriend Jessamine."
"Jessamine can't stand you," Jem pointed out.
"Henry, then."
"Henry will set you on fire.
Cassandra Clare
#22. Being Jem, Tessa reflected, must be a great deal like being the owner of a thouroughbred dog that liked to bite your guests. You had to have a hand on his collar constantly.
Cassandra Clare
#23. Wo men shi jie bai xiong di-we are more than brothers, Will.
Cassandra Clare
#24. When two souls are as one, they stay together on the Wheel. I was born into this world to love you, and I will love you in the next life, and the one after that." ~Jem Carstairs
Cassandra Clare
#25. 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
#26. A forty-foot worm?" Will muttered to Jem as they moved through the Italian garden, their boots - thanks to a pair of Soundless runes - making no noise on the gravel. "Think of the size of the fish we could catch."
Jem's lips twitched. "It's not funny, you know."
"It is a bit.
Cassandra Clare
#27. I am sorry," Will said.
"No," Jem said ... "Don't be ordinary like that. Don't say you're sorry.
Cassandra Clare
#29. It is a very strange thing, to be in love. It changes you.
Cassandra Clare
#30. I am stronger when Tessa is here, you see. I told it to you," said Jem, still in the same soft voice.
At that, Will did duck his head so that Tessa could not see his eyes. "I see it," he said.
Cassandra Clare
#31. 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
#32. Always when Will did something to protect Tessa, Jem thought it was for his sake, not for Will's. Always Will wished Jem could be entirely right. Each needle prick had it own name. Guilt. Shame. Love.
Cassandra Clare
#33. Will suspected Jem was in fact cleverer than he was himself - but he lacked Will's tendency to assume the absolute worst about people and proceed from there.
Cassandra Clare
#34. Jem thought of Jace Herondale. How he was like Will if someone had struck a match to Will and gilded him in living fire.
Cassandra Clare
#35. 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 -
Cassandra Clare
#36. Will: "You are not really dying, are you?"
Jem: "So they tell me."
Will: "I am sorry."
Jem: "No. Don't be ordinary like that. Don't say you're sorry. Say you'll train with me."
Will: "I'll train with you.
Cassandra Clare
#37. I think if two souls are meant to be together, they will remain together on the Wheel and be together again in the life after this one, whatever happens to us now.
Cassandra Clare
#38. I don't understand what makes them come out like that!"
"Hunger," said Jem. "Were you thinking about blood?"
"No"
"Were you thinking about eating me?" Will inquired.
"No!
Cassandra Clare
#39. I don't know how I could sleep at night, not knowing I was surrounded by a thousand other sleeping, dreaming souls. - pg 120, Jem to Tessa & Will
Cassandra Clare
#40. 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
#41. If there is a life after this one, he said, let me meet you in it, James Carstairs.
Cassandra Clare
#42. 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
#43. [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
#44. What I do know is that if we are born again, I will meet you in another life, and if there is a river, you will wait on the shores for me to come to you, so that we can cross together.
Cassandra Clare
#45. So you're suggesting we take the train up to York, meet a ninety-year-old man, leap on him, and yank out his hair? I'm sure the Clave will be
ecstatic."
"They'll just say you're mad," said Jessamine. "They already think it, so what's the difference, really?
Cassandra Clare
#46. You cannot reduce the situation to worm jokes, Will. This is Gabriel and Gideon's father we're discussing."
"We're not just discussing him; we're chasing him through an ornamental sculpture garden because he's turned into a worm.
Cassandra Clare
#47. 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
#49. There are so many worse things than death. Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse.
Cassandra Clare
#50. Will has always been the brighter burning star, the one to catch attention - but Jem is a steady flame, unwavering and honest. He could make you happy.
Cassandra Clare
#51. 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
#52. Fate and destiny go hand in hand. It is impossible to change our destiny. Only the path upon which we walk to reach our destination alters. If we should stray from that path, fate will take control and guide us in the right direction.
J.A. Belfield
#53. He was all silver and ashes, not like Will's strong colors of blue and black and gold.
Cassandra Clare
#54. The longer the wind blows, the bigger the wave will become.
Jem Brooks
#55. 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.
Cassandra Clare
#57. 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.
Cassandra Clare
#58. Will: Have you ever seen what happens to someone with demon pox? First it lies dormant. One begins to turn yellow and green. Then the swelling sets in -
Jem: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS DEMON POX.
Cassandra Clare
#59. 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
#60. 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.
Cassandra Clare
#61. 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?
Cassandra Clare
#62. 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.
Cassandra Clare
#63. When Will truly wants something," said Jem, quietly, "when he feels something - he can break your heart.
Cassandra Clare
#64. For five years it had been his absolute truth. Jem and Will. Will and Jem. Will Herondale lives, therefore Jem Carstairs lives also.
Cassandra Clare
#66. If I was harsh with you, it was because I cannot bear to see you treat yourself as if you are worth nothing. Whatever part you might act to the contrary, I see you as you really are, my blood brother. Not just better than you pretend to be, but better than most people could hope to be.
Cassandra Clare
#67. Yes, she doesn't really look like either of us, does she? Perhaps she's a girl who's fallen madly in love with me and persists in following me wherever I go."
"My talent is shape-shifting, Will, not acting," said Tessa, and at that Jem laughed out loud.
Cassandra Clare
#68. Meanwhile, Will had begun cutting his toast into strips and was making rude pictographs out of them.
Oh, that looks rather like a ... - , Jem began.
Cassandra Clare
#69. It will have to be Jem. He's impossible to hate. Even that devil cat likes him.
Cassandra Clare
#70. I want it to stop," he said. "Sophie says everyone is still searching for a cure for me. I know I gave Will my permission, but I want everyone to cease looking now, Charlotte. It is over.
Cassandra Clare
#71. Jem cried out with all his remaining strength. You cannot go where I am going! Nor would I want that for you!
Cassandra Clare
#72. The other day Nan said, 'Nothing can ever be quite the same for any of us again.' It made me feel rebellious. Why shouldn't things be the same again - when everything is over and Jem and Jerry are back? We'll all be happy and jolly again and these days will seem just like a bad dream.
L.M. Montgomery
#73. I was just thinking of bunding up Cecily and feeding her to the ducks in Hyde Park, said Will, pushing his wet hair back and favoring Jem with a rare smile.
Cassandra Clare
#74. 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
#75. As metal rang on metal, some inner part of Jem, some part that had been lost without his even knowing it was lost, felt the pleasure of fighting together with Will one last time.
Cassandra Clare
#76. I am no longer a Silent Brother," he said. "Only an ordinary man. My name is James, James Carstairs. But everyone calls me Jem.
Cassandra Clare
#77. 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
#78. Jessamine flushed. "Ugh! Charlotte, Will's being vexing." "And the sun has come up in the east," said Jem to no one in particular ... "And the sun comes up in the WEST," said Will, who had apparently heard Jem's earlier comment.
Cassandra Clare
#79. [Jem] looked from Will to Tessa and raised his silvery eyebrows. "A miracle," he said. "You got him to speak."
"Just to shout at me, really," said Tessa. "Not quite loaves and fishes.
Cassandra Clare
#80. If you dare to injure her in the least, I will await you where no policeman can step in between. And God shall judge between us two.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#81. I would have given it up
all of it up
to be married to you for a day. A day that would never have come. You are a reminder
a reminder of everything I am losting. The Life I will not have.
Cassandra Clare
#82. 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
#83. You should see his older brother," said Jem. "Makes Gabriel look sweeter than gingerbread. Hates Will even more thanGabriel, too, if that's possible.
Cassandra Clare
#84. Well, there aren't any graves in mundane wedding ceremonies," said Tessa. "Though your ability to quote the Bible is impressive. Better than my aunt Harriet's."
"Did you hear that, James? She just compared us to her aunt Harriet.
Cassandra Clare
#87. Camille brushed by Jem, hardly looking at him, and Will followed, pausing only long enough to mutter "She doesn't smell like anything" to Jem under his breath.
Jem looked alarmed. "You've been smelling her?
Cassandra Clare
#88. I played it for my bride, and one day you will play for yours.
Cassandra Clare
#89. 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
#90. Jem knotted his fingers in the material of Will's sleeve. "You are my parabatai," he said, "You said once I could ask anything of you.
Cassandra Clare
#91. Remember when you tried to convince me to feed a poultry pie to the mallards in the park to see if you could breed a race of cannibal ducks?"
"They ate it too," Will reminisced. "Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck.
Cassandra Clare
#92. Jem spoke with enormous care; talking to Will about anything personal was like trying not to startle away a wild animal.
Cassandra Clare
#93. My talent is shape-shifting, Will, not acting, said Tessa, and at that, Jem laughed out loud. Will glared at him.
Cassandra Clare
#95. 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
Cassandra Clare
#96. 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.
Cassandra Clare
#97. Jem shook his head. "You bit de Quincey" he said. "You fool. He's a VAMPIRE"
"I had no choice" said Will " He was choking me"
"I know" Jem said. " But really Will, AGAIN?
Cassandra Clare
#98. Will had shrugged once, helplessly. He had almost wished Jem would be angry with him. It would have been easier. He'd never felt so small within himself as he did when he faced Jem's expansive kindness.
Cassandra Clare
#99. I don't know how to live in the world as a Shadowhunter without Will. I don't think i even want to. I am still a parabatai, but my other half is gone.
Cassandra Clare
#100. 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.
Cassandra Clare
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