#clare

Of course, the guests were also staring because they know of my relationship with Camille, and are wondering what we might be doing here in the library... alone." He wiggled his eyebrows at Tessa. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-angel #magnus-bane-tessa-gray #the-infernal-devices #library

As the carriage whipped forward, they passed the alley she had spent so many days staring at—it was there, and then gone as they careened around a corner, nearly knocking over a costermonger pushing a donkey cart piled high with new potatoes. Tessa screamed. Will reached past her and yanked the curtain shut. "It's better if you don't look," he told her pleasantly. "He's going to kill someone. Or get us killed." "No, he won't. Thomas is an excellent driver." Tessa glared at him. "Clearly the word excellent means something else on this side of the Atlantic. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-angel #tessa-gray #the-infernal-devices #will-herondale #excellence

If love were food, I would have starved on the bones you gave me ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-fallen-angels #love #magnus-bane #food

They all agree, they are all unanimous in Congress, in the States, on the rostrum, in the sanctuary - everywhere they declare that slavery shall not go into the Territories. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#congress #declare #everywhere #go #into

I have no personal vendetta against Clarence Thomas. I seek only to provide the committee with information which it may regard as relevant. ↗

— Anita Hill

#clarence #committee #i #information #may

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#declare #die #fight #men #must

School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them. ↗

— Ivan Illich

#been #built #care #comparable #declared

Come back to me, Tessa. Henry said that perhaps, since you had touched the soul of an angel, that you dream of Heaven now, of fields of angels and flowers of fire. Perhaps you are happy in those dreams. But I ask this out of pure selfishness. Come back to me. For I cannot bear to lose all my heart. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-princess #heaven #page- #dreams

Don't order any of the faerie food," said Jace, looking at her over the top of his menu. "It tends to make humans a little crazy. One minute you're munching a faerie plum, the next minute you're running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not," he added hastily, "that this has ever happened to me. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-bones #jace #mortal-instruments #food

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

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-princess #jem-carstairs #page- #life