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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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“When Will truly wants something,” said Jem, quietly, “when he feels something — he can break your heart.”

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“I can offer you my life, though it is a short life. I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many beats it shall sustain. But I love you enough to hope the rest of my life-whatever its length-happy, by spending it with you.-Jem.”

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“Will looking after her, sighed. not for her, he said under his breath, though there was no one to hear him, for me…. And he leaned his head against the cold iron gate.”

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“I love you, Tessa, and I have loved you, almost since the moment I met you.”

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"What does it mean?"

"It means that you are beautiful.”

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“It's all right. It doesn't matter what you do. We're dreaming, you know.”

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“Caliph Vathek and his dark horde
Are bound for Hell, you won’t be bored!
Your faith in me will be restored—
Unless this token you find untoward
And my poor gift you have ignored.”

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“I tell myself he's better than he makes himself out to be, but, Tessa, what if he isn't?”

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“She had never imagined she had the power to make someone else so happy. And not a magical power, either--a purely human one.”

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“Patriotic?” Will looked smug. “I’ll tell you what’s patriotic,” he said. “In honor of my birthplace, I’ve the dragon of Wales tattooed on my—”

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“Thisabout Tessa. I knew it was."
Will flushed, a wash of color across the pallor of this face. "Not just her."
"But you love her."
Will stared at him. "Of course I do," he said finally. "I had come to think i would never love anyone, but I love her.”

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“wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness”

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“Lips. There was something strangely, delicately
indelicate about the word, like a kiss
itself.”

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“That sounds almost practiced, James Carstairs. How many girls have you made swoon with that observation?"
"There is only one girl I care to make swoon," he said. "The question is, does she?"
She smiled at him. "She does.”

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“He closed his eyes. “I’m so tired, Tess,” he said. “I only wanted pleasant dreams for once.”
“That is not the way to get them, Will,” she said softly. “You cannot buy or drug or dream your way out of pain.”

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“It's too late," she said.
"Don't say that." His voice was half a whisper. "I love you, Tessa. I love you.”

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“His beauty did not blaze like Will's did in fierce colors and repressed fire, but it had its own muted perfection, the loveliness of snow falling against a silver gray sky.”

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“And very amusing it is to watch,” said Jem. “Did you know you twitch your nose when you sleep, like a rabbit?”
“I do not,” she said, with a whispered laugh.- In my dreams”

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“For love is as strong as death.”

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“Jem drew back from her, looking dazed. "By the Angel," he said. "Perhaps we do need a chaperon.”

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