7 Quotes Tagged: clockwork-angel

So you're a Shadowhunter,' Nate said. 'De Quincey told me that you lot were monsters.'
'Was that before or after he tried to eat you?' Will inquired.

Sometimes, when I have to do something I don't want to do, I pretend I'm a character from a book. It's easier to know what they would do.

It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.

"Well, she's not responding to my advances," he observed more brightly than he felt, "so she must be dead."
"Or she's a woman of good taste and sense."

"Will rolled up his sleeves. "We'll probably have to knock down the door — "
"Or," said Jem, reaching out and giving the knob a twist, "not."
The door swung open onto a rectangle of darkness.
"Now, that's simply laziness," said Will."

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undecieved by them.

"Jessamine recoiled from the paper as if it were a snake. "A lady does not read the newspaper. The society pages, perhaps, or the theater news. Not this filth."
"But you are not a lady, Jessamine — -," Charlotte began.
"Dear me," said Will. "Such harsh truths so early in the morning cannot be good for the digestion.