#clockwork prince quote

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Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

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"You are in love and you think that is all there is in the world. But the world is bigger than you."

Clockwork Prince, Cassandra Clare, page 153

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"I feel myself diminished, parts of me spiraling away into the darkness, that which is good and honest and true--if you hold it away from yourself long enough, do you lose it entirely? If no one cares for you at all, do you even really exist?"

Clockwork Prince, Cassandra Clare, page 152

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Perhaps, like Archimedes, he would have been happier drawing circles in the sand.

Clockwork Prince, Cassandra Clare, page 213

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She remembered her dream of Jem in a bed surrounded by flames. She had just never dreamed she would burn with him.

Clockwork Prince, Cassandra Clare, page 205

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Her mother had owned a very old copy of a book once, she remembered, its pages so fragile they were liable to turn to dust when you touched them.

Clockwork Prince, Cassandra Clare, page 205

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He gasped against her mouth. He must have been so sure she would push him away that for a moment he went still. Her hands glided over his shoulders, urging him with gentle touches, with a murmur against his lips, not to pause. Hesitantly he returned her caress, and then wit greater force--kissing her again and again, each time with increasing urgency, cupping her face between his burning hands, his thin violinist's fingers stroking her skin, making her shiver.

Clockwork Prince, Cassandra Clare, page 202-3