Quotes from book

Clockwork Prince

“Jem is nothing but goodness. That he struck you last night only shows how capable you are of driving even saints to madness.”

“Mortality, behold, and fear,
What a change of flesh is here!
Think how many royal bones
Sleep within this heap of stones”

“I love your name. I love the sound of it”

“Our souls are knit. We are one person, James.”

“You had to know someone very well to make them laugh like that. She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did not know him at all?”

“I have wanted to do this," he said, "every moment of every hour of every day that I have been with you since the day I met you. but you know that. Youknow. Don't you?”

“I've never minded it," he went on. "Being lost, that is. I had always thought one could not truly be lost if one knew one's own heart. But I fear I may be lost without knowing yours.”

“They all have always loved you, Will Herondale, for you cannot hide what is good about yourself, however hard you try.”

“You’re seventeen,” Magnus said. “You can’t have wasted a life you’ve barely lived.”

“The girl behind the scrawled letters. I loved you from the moment I read them. I love you still.” - Will Herondale”

“You had to know a person well to make them laugh like that.”

“Did you just kiss me?" Will inquired.
Magnus made a slip-second decision. "No."
"I thought-"
"On occasion the aftereffects of the painkilling spells can result in hallucinations of the most bizarre sort."
"Oh," Will said. "How peculiar.”

“Demon pox,' said Will with the satisfaction of the truly vindicated.”

“God knows we’re all drawn to what’s beautiful and broken.”

“We’re Nephilim. Every one of our life’s passages has some mystical component — our births, our deaths, our, marriages, everything has a ceremony and a rune. There is one as well if you wish to become someone’s parabatai. It’s no small commitment.”

“When I think of you, and you are not there, I see you in my mind's eye always with a book in your hand.”

“I can offer you my life, but it is a short life; I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many more beats it shall sustain”

“And what colour do you suppose the inner depths of your soul are, Will Herondale?'
'Mauve,' said Will.”

“No one can live with nothing.”