Quotes from book

Clockwork Princess

“Do not think I do not know that Cecily wants you to return home with her. And do not think I do not know that you remain for Jem's sake."

"And yours," he said before he could stop himself.”

“And now I need you to do for me what I cannot do for myself. For you to be my eyes when I do not have them. For you to be my hands when I cannot use my own. For you to be my heart when mine is done beating.”

“A very magnanimous statement, Gideon,” said Magnus.
“I’m Gabriel.”
Magnus waved a hand. “All Lightwoods look the same to me.”

“You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.”

“Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”

“Jem touched the parabatai rune on his shoulder, through the thin material of his nightshirt. "I am not alone," he said. "Wherever we are, we are as one.”

“If I had not been a Shadowhunter, I would have had a future on the stage. I have no doubt I would have been greeted with acclaim.”

“She did not belong to Will-she was too much herself to belong to anyone, even Jem-but she belonged with them, and silently he cursed the Consul for not seeing it.”

“A Mark that spoke of loss was still a Mark, a remembrance. You could not lose something you never had.”

“One must look at the next step on the path ahead, rather than the mountain in the distance, or one would never reach one's goal.”

“The first one is always the hardest," he said.
"The first?"
"The first one you love who dies," he said. "It gets easier, after.”

“Perhaps, but you would not exist without a woman, would you? However little use you may find us, we are cleverer and more determined and more patient than men. Men may be stronger, but it is women who endure.”

“The world is a wheel. When we rise or fall, we do it together.”

“I want you to be happy, and him to be happy. And yet when you walk that aisle to meet him and join yourselves forever you will walk an invisible path of the shards of my heart Tessa. I would give over my own life for either of yours.”

“Forever and ever, brother, hail. Forever and ever, farewell.”

“Perhaps not," said Will, who had ears like a bat's. "But I would make a radiant bride.”

“You said I am a good man," he said. "But I am not that good a man. And I am--I am catastrophically in love with you.”

“We are ever capable of change and ever capable of being our better selves”

“I would have given it up--all of it up--to be married to you for a day. A day that would never have come. You are a reminder--a reminder of everything I am losting. The Life I will not have.”