"To the last hour of my life, you cannot choose but remain part of my character, part of the little good in me, part of the evil."
-from Clockwork Princess (Infernal Devices #3) by Cassandra Clare
"A heart divided against itself cannot stand, as they say. You love them both, and it tears you apart."
-from Clockwork Princess (Infernal Devices #3) by Cassandra Clare
"Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night."
-Sarah Williams, "The Old Astronomer"
"When two people are as one in their inmost hearts, they shatter even the strength of iron or bronze."
-from Clockwork Princess (Infernal Devices #3) by Cassandra Clare
"I think when we make choices -- for each choice is individual of the choices we have made before -- we must examine not only our reasons for making them, but what result they will have, and whether good people will be hurt by our decisions."
-from Clockwork Princess (Infernal Devices #3) by Cassandra Clare
"Life was an uncertain thing, and there were moments one wished to remember, to imprint upon one's mind that the memory might be taken out later, like a flower pressed between the pages of a book, and admired and recollected anew."
-from Clockwork Princess (Infernal Devices #3) by Cassandra Clare
"He had always said that Will rushed toward the end of a mission rather than proceeding in a measured manner, and that one must look at the next step on the path ahead, rather than the mountain in the distance or one would never reach one's goal."
-from Clockwork Princess (Infernal Devices #3) by Cassandra Clare
"We all have our secrets that we keep because we do not want to hurt the people who love us."
-from Clockwork Princess (Infernal Devices #3) by Cassandra Clare
"I would tell you I hated you if I thought you would believe me, if it would make you go. I want you to live. Even if it means I shall never see you again."
-from Clockwork Princess (Infernal Devices #3) by Cassandra Clare
"The measure of love is to love without measure."
-Saint Augustine
"There are things no magic can destroy, for they are magic in themselves."
-from Clockwork Princess (Infernal Devices #3) by Cassandra Clare
"I recall what you said to me once ... That words have the power to change us. Your words have changed me, Tess; they have made me a better man than I would have been otherwise. Life is a book, and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read. I would read them together with you, as many as I can, before I die."
-from Clockwork Princess (Infernal Devices #3) by Cassandra Clare
