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“Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

“You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

“I believe everything you say," Tessa said with a smile, her hands creeping down from his waist to his weapons belt. Her fingers closed on the hilt of a dagger, and she yanked it from the belt, smiling as he looked down at her in surprise. She kissed his cheek and stepped back. "After all," she said, "you weren't lying about that tattoo of the dragon of Wales, were you?”
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“I am catastrophically in love with you.”
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“They say you cannot love two people equally at once,â€� she said. “And perhaps for others that is so. But you and Will—you are not like two ordinary people, two people who might have been jealous of each other, or who would have imagined my love for one of them diminished by my love of the other. You merged your souls when you were both children. I could not have loved Will so much if I had not loved you as well. And I could not love you as I do if I had not loved Will as I did.”
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“I know how you are with your words, and, Will- I love all of them. Every word you say. The silly ones, the mad ones, the beautiful ones, and the ones that are only for me. I love them, and I love you." - Tessa Gray”
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“I am dramatic," said Will. "If i had not been a Shadowhunter, i would have had a future on the stage.”
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“Charlotte said that if I chose, I could cease to be a Gray and take the name my mother should have had before she was married. I could be a Starkweather. I could have a true Shadowhunter name."
She heard Will exhale a breath. It came out a puff of white in the cold. His eyes were blue and wide and clear, fixed on her face. He wore the expression of a man who had steeled himself to do a terrifying thing, and was carrying it through. "Of course you can have a true Shadowhunter name," Will said. "You can have mine.”
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“Tessa craned her head back to look at Will. “You know that feeling,â€� she said, “when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel the cold and darkness coming, see the net drawing tight around the characters who live and breathe on the pages. But you are tied to the story as if being dragged behind a carriage and you cannot let go or turn the course aside.â€� His blue eyes were dark with understanding â€� of course Will would understand â€� and she hurried on. “I feel now as if the same is happening, only not to characters on a page but to my own beloved friends and companions. I do not want to sit by while tragedy comes for us. I would turn it aside, only I struggle to discover how that might be done.â€�
“You fear for Jem,� Will said.
“Yes,� she said. “And I fear for you, too.�
“No,â€� Will said, hoarsely. “Don’t waste that on me, Tess.”
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“Of course you can have a true Shadowhunter name," Will said. "You can have mine."
Tessa stared at him, all black and white against the black-and-white snow and stone. "Your name?"
Will took a step toward her, till they stood face-to-face. Then he reached to take her hand and slid off her glove, which he put into his pocket. He held her bare hand in his, his fingers curved around hers. His hand was warm and callused, and his touch made her shiver. His eyes were steady and blue; they were everything that Will was: true and tender, sharp and witty, loving and kind. "Marry me," he said. "Marry me, Tess. Marry me and be called Tessa Herondale. Or be Tessa Gray, or be whatever you wish to call yourself, but marry me and stay with me and never leave me, for I cannot bear another day of my life to go by that does not have you in it.”
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“Men may be stronger, but it is women who endure.”
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“And to the devil with it if she is!" said the Consul. "One girl, who is not Nephilim, is not, cannot, be our priority."

"She is my priority!" Will shouted.”
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“Will rose slowly to his feet. He could not believe he was doing what he was doing, but it was clear that he was, clear as the silver rim around the black of Jem’s eyes. “If there is a life after this one,â€� he said, “let me meet you in it, James Carstairs.â€�

“There will be other lives.� Jem held his hand out, and for a moment, they clasped hands, as they had done during their parabatai ritual, reaching across twin rings of fire to interlace their fingers with each other. “The world is a wheel,� he said. “When we rise or fall, we do it together.�

Will tightened his grip on Jem’s hand, which felt thin as twigs in his. “Well, then,â€� he said, through a tight throat, “since you say there will be another life for me, let us both pray I do not make as colossal a mess of it as I have this one.”
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“You don't think I can fight." Tessa said, drawing back and matching his silvery gaze with her own. "Because I'm a girl."
"I don't think you can fight because you're wearing a wedding dress", said Jem. "For what it's worth, I don't think Will could fight in that dress either."
"Perhaps not," said Will, who had ears like a bat'a. "But I would make a radiant bride.”
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“Sometimes one must choose whether to be kind or honorable," he said. "Sometimes one cannot be both.”
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“If Jem dies, I cannot be with Tessa,â€� said Will. “Because it will be as if I were waiting for him to die, or took some joy in his death, if it let me have her. And I will not be that person. I will not profit from his death. So he must live.â€� He lowered his arm, his sleeve bloody. “It is the only way any of this can ever mean anything. Otherwise it is only —â€�

“Pointless, needless suffering and pain? I don’t suppose it would help if I told you that was the way life is. The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away,� Magnus said.

“I want more than that,â€� said Will. “You made me want more than that. You showed me I was only ever cursed because I had chosen to believe myself so. You told me there was possibility, meaning. And now you would turn your back on what you created.”
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“It has been the privilege and the honor of my life to know you.”
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“Tessa touched his wrist lightly with her hand. "Be brave," she said. "It's not a duck, is it?”
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“There are so many worse things than death. Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse.”
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“Life is a book, and there are a thousand pages I have not read. I would read them together with you, as many as I can, before I die -"
She put her hand against his chest, just over his heart, and felt its beat against her palm, a unique time signature that was all its own. "I only wish you would not speak of dying," she said. "But even for that, yes, I know how you are with your words, and, Will- I love all of them. Every word you say. The silly ones, the mad ones, the beautiful ones, and the ones that are only for me. I love them, and I love you.”
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“Do not seek revenge and call it justice.”
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“I'm afraid to answer that. I've heard that when I speak, it makes American women wish to strike me with umbrellas.”
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“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.”
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“No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily.”
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“She leaned forward and caught at his hand, pressing it between her own. The touch was like white fire through his veins. He could not feel her skin only the cloth of her gloves, and yet it did not matter. You kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire. He had wondered once why love was always phrased in terms of burning. The conflagration in his own veins, now, gave the answer.”
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“Jem knotted his fingers in the material of Will's sleeve. "You are my parabatai," he said, "You said once I could ask anything of you.”
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“Gabriel’s green eyes sought Will. “It was demon pox, wasn’t it? You know all about it, don’t you? Aren’t you some sort of expert?â€�
“Well, you needn’t act as if I invented it,â€� said Will.”
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“There is more to living than not dying.”
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“And maybe you should stop pitying yourself,â€� he said. “Most people are lucky to have even one great love in their life. You have found two.”
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“You hear that, James Carstairs? We are bound, you and I, over the divide of death, down through whatever generations may come. Forever.”
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“Bright star,â€� Magnus said, and his eyes were thoughtful, as if he were remembering something, or someone. “Those of you who are mortal, you burn so fiercely. And you fiercer than most, Will. I will not ever forget you.”
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“You know,â€� Cecily said, “you really didn’t have to throw that man through the window.”
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“Jem told me what Ragnor Fell said about my father,â€� Will said. “That for my father, there was only ever one woman he loved, and it was her for him, or nothing. You are that for me. I love you, and I will only ever love you until I die â€�”
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“Atque in pepetuum, frater, ave atque vale,â€� he whispered. The words of the poem had never seemed so fitting: Forever and ever, my brother, hail and farewell.”
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“You know that feeling,â€� she said, “when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel the cold and darkness coming, see the net drawing tight around the characters who live and breathe on the pages. But you are tied to the story as if being dragged behind a carriage and you cannot let go or turn the course aside.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

“Wo wei ni xie de,â€� he said, as he raised the violin to his left shoulder, tucking it under his chin. He had told her many violinists used a shoulder rest, but he did not: there was a slight mark on the side of his throat, like a permanent bruise, where the violin rested.

“You � made something for me?� Tessa asked.

“I wrote something for you,â€� he corrected, with a smile, and began to play.”
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“I thought perhaps that when you told me you did not love me that my own feelings would fall away and atrophy, but they have not. They have grown every day. I love you now more desperately, this moment, than I have ever loved you before, and in an hour I will love you more than that”
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“By the Angel, Bridget’s depressing,â€� said Henry, setting down his newspaper directly on his plate and causing the edge to soak through with egg yolk. Charlotte opened her mouth as if to object, and closed it again. “It’s all heartbreak, death and unrequited love.â€�
“Well, that is what most songs are about,â€� said Will. “Requited love is nice, but it doesn’t make much of a ballad.”
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“For this I would be damned forever. For this I would have given up everything.”
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“One does no question miracles, or complain that they are no constructed perfectly to one's liking.”
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“Every meeting led to a parting, and so it would, as long as life was mortal. In every meeting there was some of the sorrow of parting, but in everything parting there was some of the joy of meeting as well.”
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“Magnus took a deep breath and spoke gently. “Will. You asked me for my wisdom, as someone who has lived many lifetimes and buried many loves. I can tell you that the end of a life is the sum of the love that was lived in it, that whatever you think you have sworn, being here at the end of Jem’s life is not what is important. It was being here for every other moment. Since you met him, you have never left him and never not loved him. That is what matters.”
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“I don't know how to live in the world as a Shadowhunter without Will. I don't think i even want to. I am still a parabatai, but my other half is gone.”
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“His eyes went soft and silver as she spoke. “Zhe shi jie shang, wo shi zui ai ne de,â€� he whispered.

She understood it. In all the world, you are what I love the most.”
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“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.”
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“Do you even care where I’m going?â€� he said. “What if I were going to hell?â€�

“I’ve always wanted to see hell,� Cecily said. “Doesn’t everyone?�

“Most of us spend our time trying to stay out of it, Cecily. I’m going to an ifrit den, if you must know, to purchase drugs from vile, dissolute criminals. They may clap eyes on you, and decide to sell you.�

“Wouldn’t you stop them?�

“I suppose it would depend on whether they cut me a part of the profit.”
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“Though Will was saying earlier,â€� Tessa added, “that heroes all come to bad ends, and he could not imagine why anyone would want to be one, anyway.â€�
“Ah.� Jem’s hand squeezed hers briefly, and then let it go. “Well, Will is looking at it from the hero’s viewpoint, isn’t he? But as for the rest of us, it’s an easy answer.�
“Is it?�
“Of course.â€� His voice was almost a whisper now. “Heroes endure because we need them. Not for their own sakes. If Will â€�”
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“Most people are lucky to have even one great love in their life. You have found two.”
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“If there is a life after this one", he said, "let me meet you in it, James Carstairs.”
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“Their oldest child, James, had spoken laughingly about Will's unrelenting fear of ducks and his continual battle to keep them out of the pond at the family home in Yorkshire.”
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