Quotes from book

Clockwork Angel

“Concerned about my safety, are you?
-William Herondale.”

“She looked up at him with a smile. The smile broke what was left of his resistance--shattered it. He had let the walls down when he'd thought she was gone, and there was no time to build them back up.”

“But I will never have a bride.”

“Whoever loves you now—and you must also love yourself—will love the truth of you.”

“If love is great, then it is worth fighting for.”

“He was the one she was doing all this for, but sometimes she missed him so much it felt like she swallowed broken glass.”

“Anyone that looked like that wouldn't need to tie up girls and imprison them in order to get them to marry him”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“With God on your side, what does luck matter?”

“Jem" I have an assignmation in Soho this evening with a certain attractive someone.

Tessa: Goodness. If you keep seeing Six-Fingered Nigel like this, he'll expect you to declare your intentions.
Jem choked on his tea.”

“Do you often sleep tied to the bed?”

“It is not the same thing to be good and to be kind.”

“There was a time I thought I was a ferret.”

“Not really, but after that I think about how I could kill him while he slept if I really wanted to, and then I feel better.”

“It isn't against the Law to be an idiot.”

“His steady gaze held hers. His blue eyes were very dark, uniquely so. She had known people before with blue eyes, but they had always been light blue. Will's were the color of the sky just on the edge of night.”

“The demon bared its greenish fangs. "This is my true form. An ugly surprise for you, I suppose."
"I daresay it's an improvement," said Will. "You weren't much to look at before, and at least the horns are dramatic.”