No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or... - Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

"Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read."

"You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all."

"One does no question miracles, or complain that they are no constructed perfectly to one's liking."

"And to the devil with it if she is!"said the Consul. "One girl, who is not Nephilim, is not, cannot, be our priority.""She is my priority!"Will shouted."

"You know that feeling,” she said, “when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel the cold and darkness coming, see the net drawing tight around the characters who live and breathe on the pages. But you are tied to the story as if being dragged behind a carriage and you cannot let go or turn the course aside."