Quotes from book

Clockwork Prince

“Look well on this, my son," said the green-skinned man, "for one day I shall rule a clockwork kingdom of such beings, and you shall be its prince.”

“I am not the one of us who has no heart.”

“But all these were things he could not want, because they were things he could not have, and wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness.”

“Will stared down at his hands. "My whole life wrecked, destroyed…"

"You're seventeen," Magnus said. "You can't have wrecked a life you've barely lived.”

“I don’t think Will Herondale and a sense of responsibility are even on speaking terms”

“Gold to airy thinness beat.”

“Beauty is harsh.”

“Dear me," said Will, and he took another bite of his apple. "Is it because I'm better-looking than you?”

“When two souls are as one, they stay together on the Wheel. I was born into this world to love you, and I will love you in the next life, and the one after that." ~Jem Carstairs”

“Hang Mortmain," said Will. "And I mean that literally, of course, but also figuratively.”

“You are not the last dream of my soul.

You are the first dream, the only dream I ever was unable to stop myself from dreaming. You are the first dream of my soul, and from that dream I hope will come all other dreams, a lifetime’s worth.”

“That the wall is coming down.”

“Will set his fork down and began cheerfully, in the manner of Edward Lear's”

“Someday, Will, I will go where none can follow me, and I think it will be sooner rather than later. Have you ever asked yourself why I agreed to be your parabatai?”

“… I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you. That you were the center of everything I did and felt and thought.”

“I thought… that we could at least talk about books.”

“When I first arrived in London, I so quickly tired of being surrounded by so many people that it was only with great difficulty that I refrained from seizing the next unfortunate who crossed my path and committing violent acts upon their person.”

“… If you'd like to go back in there and try kicking him, I recommend aiming upward and a bit to the left”

“Memories did one no good, not when one knew the truth in the present. Will was beautiful, but he was not hers; he was anybody's. Something in him was broken, and trough that break spilled a blind cruelty, a need to hurt and to push away.”