“Some are just born bad, and that's all there is to it.”
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince
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Clockwork Prince is a novel written by Cassandra Clare. It is the second novel in the Infernal Devices trilogy and is written through the perspective of the protagonist, Tessa Gray, who lives at the London Institute among Shadowhunters, a group of half-angel-half-human beings called Nephilim. After the recent failings of Charlotte, the manager of the Institute, the Council of Shadowhunters begin to question her ability to lead. Now Tessa and her friends must find Mortmain – an evil industrialist bent on destroying all the Nephilim in the world – or risk losing control of the Institute.
“Some are just born bad, and that's all there is to it.”
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince
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“I loved you from the moment I read them. I love you still.”
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince
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“If no one cares for you at all, do you even really exist?”
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince
Variant: If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?
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“They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite”
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince
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Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince
Variant: If I might make a suggestion,” said Will. “About twenty paces behind us, in the Council room, is Benedict. If you’d like to go back in there and try kicking him, I recommend aiming upward and a bit to the left—
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