#tess

La vida es un libro, y hay miles de páginas que no hemos leído todavía. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-princess #princesa-mecanica #tessa-gray #will-herondale #tessa-gray

Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time. ↗

— John Berger

#chosen #emigration #experience #forced #frontiers

I feel like if you're a girl in the South, you know 'Gone with the Wind' better than anything. Scarlett O'Hara is such a quintessential Southern woman. ↗

— Leslie Bibb

#better #feel #girl #gone #gone with the wind

But you hate poetry! Yes, but you make me want to write it. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#love #poetry #tessa-gray #love

You're my girl, Tessa Crimson. You'll always be my girl" He brought me close to him and wrapped me up in his arms, staring down into my face. "And even if we aren't together, that won't change. ↗

— Suzanne Young

#tessa #change

I take your hand, brother, so that you may go in peace. Will had opened his blue eyes that never lost their colour over all the passing years, and looked at Jem and then Tessa, and smiled, and died, with Tessa's head on his shoulder and and his hand in Jem's. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jem-carstairs #tessa-gray #will-herondale #death

I was a hostess in a restaurant in New York when I was 21, and I was too good of an employee. I was putting most of my energy into that instead of acting. But my father told my sister and me to look at whatever needed to be done and do that job well, no matter what it was. ↗

— Emily Deschanel

#done #employee #energy #father #good

I really saw myself as the quintessential Cinderella. I think that's when I really thought about how I wanted to do something else and get away from all that. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#away #cinderella #else #get #how

Few enjoy noisy overcrowded functions. But they are a gesture of goodwill on the part of host or hostess, and also on the part of guests who submit to them. ↗

— Fannie Hurst

#enjoy #few #functions #gesture #goodwill

Of course you can have a true Shadowhunter name," Will said. "You can have mine." Tessa stared at him, all black and white against the black-and-white snow and stone. "Your name?" Will took a step toward her, till they stood face-to-face. Then he reached to take her hand and slid off her glove, which he put into his pocket. He held her bare hand in his, his fingers curved around hers. His hand was warm and callused, and his touch made her shiver. His eyes were steady and blue; they were everything that Will was: true and tender, sharp and witty, loving and kind. "Marry me," he said. "Marry me, Tess. Marry me and be called Tessa Herondale. Or be Tessa Gray, or be whatever you wish to call yourself, but marry me and stay with me and never leave me, for I cannot bear another day of my life to go by that does not have you in it. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#love #marriage-proposal #tessa-gray #will-herondale #witty