Quotes from book

Clockwork Angel

“Never mind that,” said Will. “I’m boasting of my investigative skills, and I would prefer to do it without interruption. Where was I?”

“That sounds almost practiced, James Carstairs. How many girls have you made swoon with that observation?”

“I have lost everything. Lost everything.
Everything. - William Herondale”

“Were you thinking about eating me?”

“cleverness that comes too late is hardly cleverness at all?”

“I do not walk like a duck.”

“Then forget Gabriel. Is there a particular reason you keep biting vampires?"

Will touched the dried blood on his wrists, and smiled. "They don't expect it.”

“I know you feel inhuman, and as if you are set apart, away from life and love, but…"
His voice cracked a little, the first time Tessa had heard him sound unsure.
He cleared his throat. "I promise you, the right man won't care.”

“You could know a man not by what his friends said about him, but by how he treated his servants.”

“The light that burned twice as bright burned half as long.”

“She's alive," Thomas said, not opening his eyes.
"What?" Will was caught off guard.
"The one you come back for. Her. Tessa. She's with Sophie.”

“Oh, I can never get enough. Which, incidentally, is what your sister said when”

“This is your true self, Tessa. This power is who you are. Whoever loves you now - and you must also love yourself - will love the truth of you.”

“Never trust a duck.”

“Maybe I want a black eye. Did you think of that?”

“In Will's experience, when someone who ought to be afraid wasn't, the reason was rarely bravery. Usually it meant that they knew something you didn't.”

“Tessa knows Will,” protested Charlotte. “She trusts Will.”
“Iwouldn’t go that far,” muttered Tessa.”

“Books are for reading, not for turning oneself into livestock.”

“I believe in good and evil," said Jem. "And I believe the soul is eternal. But I don't believe in the fiery pit, the pitchforks, or endless torment. I do not believe you can threaten people into goodness.”