James Carstairs Quotes

“You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

“Dreams can be dangerous things.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“I love you so much, so incredibly much," he went on, "and I forget when you're close to me, I forget who you are. I forget that you're Jem's. I'd have to be the worst sort of person to think what I'm thinking right now. But I am thinking it.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

“This cat is looking at me with judgment.”“He’s not,” said Jules. “That’s just his face.”“You look at me the same way,” Mark said, glancing at Julian. “Judgy face.”
― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

“Do you remember when we stood together on Blackfriars Bridge?” he asked softly, and his eyes were like that night had been, all black and silver.
“Of course I remember.”
“It was the moment I first knew I loved you,” Jem said. “I will make you a promise. Every year, Tessa, on one day, I will meet you on that bridge. I will come from the Silent City and I will meet you, and we will be together, if only for an hour. But you must tell no one.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

“To his children, Will showed the same love he had always shown to her, fierce and unyielding. And the same protectiveness he had only ever showed to one other person: the person James had been named after. Will’s parabatai, Jem.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Whitechapel Fiend

“Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee - for whither thou goest, I will go, and where thou lodgest, I will lodge. Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried. The Angel do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

“Mizpah," he said.
She blinked at him, a little dazed. "What?"
"A sort of good-bye without saying good-bye," he said. "It is a reference to a passage in the Bible. 'And Mizpah, for he said, the Lord watch between me and thee when we are absent one from another.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“I thought you needed me," Jem said. "There is a wall you have built about yourself, Will, and I have never asked you why. But no one should shoulder every burden alone. I thought you would let me inside if I became your parabatai, and then you would have at least someone to lean upon. I did wonder what my death would mean for you. I used to fear it, for your sake. I feared you would be left alone inside that wall. But now ... something has changed. I do not know why. But I know that it is true."
"That what is true?" Will's fingers were still digging into Jem's wrist.
"That the wall is coming down.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“I don’t understand what makes them come out like that!”“Hunger,” said Jem. “Were you thinking about blood?”“No.”“Were you thinking about eating me?” Will inquired.“No!"“No one would blame you,” said Jem. “He’s very annoying.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“You’re the shape-changer, aren’t you?” Ragnor said. “Magnus Bane told me about you. No mark on you at all, they say.”"No. No mark."He grinned around his fork. “I do suppose they’ve looked everywhere?”“I’m sure Will’s tried,” said Jessamine.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“It would be unjust to blame the past for choices made in the present. Nor can we justify present choices by invoking the sins of the past.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Wicked Ones

“Every heart has its own melody, you know mine.
-James Carstairs”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

“Life is not a boat, beating us far away in a cruel, relentless tide from all we love. You are not lost to me on some forever distant shore. Life is a wheel.”
― Cassandra Clare, Ghosts of the Shadow Market

“I know you only say these things to hurt me. Off with you. Brush your hair!”
― Cassandra Clare, Cast Long Shadows

“I was born into this world to love you, and I will love you in the next life, and the one after that.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“When two people are as one in their inmost hearts, they shatter even the strength of iron or bronze.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

“Half one thing and half another,” Tessa said. “Like me. But you know you’re human.”

Jem’s expression softened. “As are you. In all the ways that matter.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“Our hearts, they need a mirror. We see our better selves in the eyes of those who love us. And there is a beauty that brevity alone provides.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“You swore to stay with me." Will said. "When we made our oath as Parabatai. Our souls are knit, we are one person, James."

"We are two people, two people with a covenant between us."

"The convent says you must not where I cannot come with you."

"'Until death,'' Jem replied gently. "Those are the words. 'Until aught but death part thee and me.”
― Cassandra Clare

“Will? Will, is that you?”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“It is a very strange thing, to be in love," he said. "It changes you.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

“Whatever you are physically, male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy - all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. Whatever the color, the shape, the design of the shade that conceals it, the flame inside the lamp remains the same. You are the flame.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“Khalepa ta kala. It means that that which is worth having—the good, fine, honorable, and noble things—are difficult to attain.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“I-I would have wanted to-to court you first. To take you driving, with a chaperon.'

'A chaperon?' Tessa laughed despite herself.

He went on determinedly. 'To tell you my feelings first, before I showed them. To write poetry for you-'

'You don't even like poetry,' Tessa said, her voice catching on a half laugh of relief.

'No. But you make me want to write it. Does that not count for anything?”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“Whatever you are physically; male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy-all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have a soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. Whatever the colour, the shape, the design of the shade that conceals it, the flame inside the lamp remains the same. You are that flame. That's what I believe.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“Sometimes, our lives can change so fast that the change outpaces our minds and hearts. It's those times, I think, when our lives have altered but we still long for the time before everything was altered-that is when we feel the greatest pain.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“Heroes endure because we need them.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

“It is not easy to be first, and it is not always rewarding, but it is important.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

“Nossos corações precisam de um espelho, Tessa. Enxergamos o melhor de nós mesmos naqueles que nos amam. E existe uma beleza que só a brevidade oferece.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess