The Infernal Devices

So basically I can't get over this series, and there are so many good quotes, so to avoid wallowing in my sorrows I decided to go through and pick out the best quotes from Cassandra Clare's series The Infernal Devices.

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Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

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“Look at him. The face of a bad angel and eyes like the night sky in Hell. He’s very pretty, and vampires like that. I can’t say I mind either.”

— Magnus Bane about Will Herondale, Clockwork Angel

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Yanluo tortured me in front of my parents,“ Jem went on, his voice empty. "Over and over it injected me with a burning demon poison that scorched my veins and tore at my mind. For two days I went in and out of hallucinations and dreams. I saw the world drowned in rivers of blood, and I heard the screams of all the dead and dying throughout history. I saw London burning, and great metal creatures striding here and there like huge spiders—” He caught his breath. He was very pale, his nightshirt stuck to his chest with sweat, but he waved away Tessa’s expression of concern. “Every few hours I would come back to reality long enough to hear my parents screaming for me. Then on the second day, I came back and heard only my mother. My father had been silenced. My mother’s voice was raw and cracked, but she was still saying my name. Not my name in English, but the name she had given me when I was born: Jian. I can still hear her sometimes, calling out for me.

Jem Carstairs, Clockwork Angel

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The Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare

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Clockwork Prince

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Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

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

Will Herondale via Clockwork Princess (via the-infernal-devices-quotes)

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TID and TMI

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He’s very broken, like a lovely vase that someone has smashed. Only luck and skill can put it back together the way it was before.

Magnus Bane about Will Herondale via Clockwork Prince (via the-infernal-devices-quotes)

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If you ever think you’re bad at flirting just remember that Gideon Lightwood hid a mountain of scones under his bed for days just so he could get the chance to talk to Sophie.

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Jem put the whole force of himself into each smile, so that he seemed to be smiling with his eyes, his heart, his whole being.

Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince (via the-infernal-devices-quotes)

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Clockwork Prince

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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.

Jem Carstairs to Will Herondale via Clockwork Princess (via the-infernal-devices-quotes)

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Jem put the whole force of himself into each smile, so that he seemed to be smiling with his eyes, his heart, his whole being.

Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

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Jem Carstairs via Clockwork Princess

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If Jem dies, I cannot be with Tessa, 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. It is the only way any of this can ever mean anything.

Will Herondale to Magnus Bane via Clockwork Princess (via the-infernal-devices-quotes)