Best Quotes from Clockwork Angel (Book 1: The Infernal Devices)

Here are some quotes from Clockwork Angel that broke and mended my heart while reading:

“One must always be careful of books and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”

– Tessa Gray

“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.

– Tessa Gray

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 that flame.

– Jem Carstairs

“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.”

-Jem Carstairs

“It is a great thing to love as it is to be loved. Love is not something to be wasted.”

-Jem Carstairs

Pulvis et umbra sumus. It’s a line from Horace. ‘We are dust and shadows’ 

-Will Herondale

“It’s all right to love someone who doesn’t love you back, as long as they’re worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.”

-Sophie Collins