Quotes from The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel

“It is better than going on loving someone who cannot love me back. Better wasting all that feelings"
-Tessa gray”
― Cassandra Clare, quote from The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel

“He was all silver and ashes, not like Will's strong colors of blue and black and gold.”
― Cassandra Clare, quote from The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel

“Nice work in their, Herondale, setting the place on fire," Gabriel observed. "Good thing we were there to clean up after you, or the whole plan would have gone down in flames, along with the shreds of your reputation."
"Are you implying that shreds of my reputation remain intact?" Will demanded with mock horror. "Clearly I have been doing somethin wrong. Or no doing something wrong, as the case may be." He banged on the side of the carriage. "Thomas!" We must away from here at once to the nearest brothel! I seek scandal and low companionship."
Thomas snorted and muttered somethin that sounded like "bosh", which Will ignored.
Gabriel's face darkened. "Is there anything that isn't a joke to you?"
Nothing that comes to mind."
"You know," Gabriel said, "there was a time I thought we could be friends, Will"
"There was a time I thought I was a ferret," Will said, "but it turned out to be the opium haze. Did you know it had that effect? Becausen I didn't.”
― Cassandra Clare, quote from The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel

“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, quote from The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel

“When two people tell the same lie, the are working together”
― Cassandra Clare, quote from The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel

“Tessa was only half way down the corridor when they caught up to her -Will and Jem, walking on either side of her. "you didn't really think we weren't going to come along, did you?" Will asked, raising his hand and letting his witchlight fare up between his fingers, lighting the corridor to daylight brightness. Charlotte, hurrying along ahead of them, turned and frowned, but said nothing.
"I know you can't leave anything well alone," Tessa replied, looking straight ahead. "But I though better of Jem."
"Where Will goes, I go," Jem said good-naturedly. "And besides, I'm as curious as he is.”
― Cassandra Clare, quote from The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel

“You have a power of incalculable value. You need ask nothing of anyone. You need depend on no one. You are free, and that freedom is a gift.”
― Cassandra Clare, quote from The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel

“He didn't know what books meant to her, that books were symbols of truth and meaning ...”
― Cassandra Clare, quote from The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel

“How can you not understand?" He pointed at her books. "You read novels. Obviously, I'm here to rescue you. Don't I look like Sir Galahad?" He raised his arms dramatically. "My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure---”
― Cassandra Clare, quote from The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel

“Bisogna essere prudenti con i libri, perché le parole hanno il potere di cambiarci.”
― Cassandra Clare, quote from The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel

“Sophie has a gift," she said. "She has the Sight. She can see what others do not. In her old life she often wondered if she was mad. Now she knows that she is not mad but special.

There, she was only a parlor maid, who would likely have lost her position once her looks had faded. Now she is a valued member of our household, a gifted girl with much to contribute.”
― Cassandra Clare, quote from The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel

“Now that you know the truth, you can never go back.”
― Cassandra Clare, quote from The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel

“Words have the power to change us...”
― Cassandra Clare, quote from The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel

“Sin él, estaba completamente sola en el mundo. No tenía a nadie. Nadie en el mundo entero a quien le importara si vivía o moría. A veces, el horror de esa idea amenazaba con superarla y hundirla en una oscuridad sin fondo de la que no regresaría. Si no le importas a nadie en el mundo, ¿existes realmente?”
― Cassandra Clare, quote from The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel

“Siempre hay que tener cuidado con los libros, y con lo que contienen, porque las palabras tienen el poder de cambiarnos.”
― Cassandra Clare, quote from The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel

“Tessa had even pleaded with Magnus to come in with her to help break the news, but he had refused, on the grounds that internecine Shadowhunter dramas had nothing to do with him, and he had a novel to get back to besides.”
― Cassandra Clare, quote from The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel

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