Quotes from book

Clockwork Princess

“[…] He tasted like snowflakes and wine, like winter and Will and London.”

“The Will I fell in love with, she almost said."And be Will," she finished instead. "Or I shall hit you with my umbrella.”

“You might want to get up," he said. "Everyone will be here quite soon to rescue you, and you may prefer to have clothes on when they arrive." He shrugged. "I would, at any rate, but then, I am well known to be remarkably shy.”

“Will gave a short laugh. He was in gear as if he had just come from the practice room, and his hair curled damply against his temples. He was not looking at Tessa, but she had grown used to that. Will hardly ever looked at her unless he had to.”

“You screamed.” Will said. “Is that all you did?”
“I screamed a great deal.” Tatiana sounded injured.”

“I don't suppose it would help if I told you that is the way life is. The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away.”

“There's nothing you could have done that would cause me to cease loving either of you. Will is myself, my own soul, and if I am not to have the keeping of your heart, then there is not other I would rather have that honor.”

“I can tell you that the end of life is the some of the love that was lived in it.”

“I will still be in some part the Jem you knew, and I will see you with the eyes of my heart.”

“There is more to living than”

“I have heard sometimes that men who lose an arm of a leg still feel that pain in those limbs, though they are gone,' said Will. 'It is like that sometimes. I can feel Jem with me, though he is gone, and it is like I am missing a part of myself.”

“You understand my music.”

“If there is a life after this one, he said, let me meet you in it, James Carstairs.”

“In all the world, you are what I love the most.”

“Forsooth, I no longer toil in vain,
To prove that demon pox warps the brain.
So though 'ti pity, it's not in vain
That the pox-ridden worm was slain:
For to believe in me, you all must deign.”

“Hope is not an illusion.”

“So you are dying for love, then," Will said finally, his voice sounding constricted to his own ears.
'Dying a little faster for love. And there are worse things to die for.”

“One does no question miracles, or complain that they are no constructed perfectly to one's liking.”

“Choosing love or war: both are brave choices, in their own ways.”