#infernal

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

I swear that woman had a previous career as a death-hunter selling tragic ballads down around the Seven Dials," said Will. "And I wish she wouldn't sing about poisoning just after we've eaten." He looked sideways at Tessa. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clare #poison #the-infernal-devices #will #death

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#adult #children #demand #festival #funny

An infernal machine that produces every minute an impressive amount of poor, 26 million poor in 10 years are 2.6 million per year of new poor, this is the road, well, the road to hell. ↗

— Hugo Chavez

#every #hell #impressive #infernal #machine

The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#magnus-bane #the-infernal-devices #magnus-bane

Never trust a duck. ↗

— Will Herondale

#the-infernal-devices #will-herondale #william-herondale #will-herondale

Gideon Lightwood said he was at the Institute in Madrid. What on earth was he doing there?' 'Faffing about, most likely', said Will. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-prince #tessa-grey #the-infernal-devices #will-herondale #will-herondale

It was books that made me feel that perhaps I wasn't completely alone." - Will Herondale, Clockwork Prince ↗