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Clockwork Prince

Clockwork Prince
Cassandra Clare

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.

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“Dear God, woman,"said Will. "Are there any questions you don't want to know the answer to?”

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“You promise me, he said. That you love him. Enough to marry him and make him happy.”

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“One finds nobility in the oddest places.”

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“When two people are at one in their inmost hearts, they shatter even the strength of iron or bronze.”

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Source: The Infernal Devices, Clockwork Princess (2013), p. 564, inscription on the back of Tessa's jade pendant

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“Gideon Lightwood said he was at the Institute in Madrid. What on earth was he doing there?'
'Faffing about, most likely', said Will.”

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“Is this one of those days where we all stalk out in fury? Because I simply haven't got the energy for it.”

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“I would die for you. You know that. I would die without you. If it were not for you, I would be dead a hundred times over these past five years.”

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“I think I may be in love with you, Sophie," said Will. "Marriage could be in the cards.”

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“Women do not think with logic and discretion but with emotions of the heart”

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“We live and breathe words.”

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“There's always the dinner rolls," said Will, pointing to a covered basket. "Though I warn you, they're as hard as stones. You could use them to kill black beetles, if any beetles bother you in the middle of the night.”

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“I can't - I'll chop off my own foot!"
"If you're going to chop off anyone's foot, chop off Benedict's," Will muttered.”

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“My darling, you are indisposed! You must remain abed for the next eight months. Little Buford - "
"I am NOT naming our child Buford…”

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“That Jem makes beautiful things and I destroy them. That it really ought to be me dying and not him. I mean, what's the point of living if you can't even enjoy it? Yet Jem enjoys all the life he's got. It's not fair.”

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“He was gazing at her, the way one did when one felt one was unobserved. He had that look on his face, the look he usually got only when he was playing the violin, as if he were completely caught up and entranced.”

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“Hmph," she said. "I'd like to see you learn how to manage sitting and standing up straight in stays and petticoats and a dress with a foot's worth of train!"
"So would I," said Gideon from across the room.”

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“She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all?”

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“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.”

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“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”

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“it was books that made me feel that perhaps i was not completely alone”

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Variant: It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.
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