Jem Carstairs Quotes

“Life is not a boat, bearing us far away on a cruel, relentless tide from all we love. You are not lost on me on some forever distant shore. Life is a wheel.”
― Cassandra Clare, Son of the Dawn

“Lily lit up. “Do I want to come on a bro road trip with you, rushing to the aid of gorgeous damsel in distress, Jem I’d-love-to-climb-’em Carstairs?”
― Cassandra Clare, The Land I Lost

“Will has always been my favourite too, Jem agreed solemnly.”
― Cassandra Clare, Cast Long Shadows

“The face of the one you love is the best mirror of all.”
― Cassandra Clare, Learn About Loss

“If she lived until the sun died, there would never be any other for her besides Will and Jem, those two twin souls, the only souls she had ever loved.”
― Cassandra Clare, A Deeper Love

“The letters were worn by time and Zachariah's own flesh, but they had been struck deep into the wood in the precise places where Zachariah would put his hands on them when they fought. So, in a way, they would always be fighting together.
The letters were W and H.”
― Cassandra Clare, Son of the Dawn

“If you pretend to feel nothing, the pretence may become true. said Jem. That would be a pity.”
― Cassandra Clare, Son of the Dawn

“I thought I would walk with you a little way, my parabatai.”
― Cassandra Clare, Cast Long Shadows

“It lightens my heart to see you with it. We could all do with lighter hearts tonight.”
― Cassandra Clare, Cast Long Shadows

“And I am afraid that the span of time that we have together may not be long.” “That has always been the case with us,” Will said. “But let us be grateful to your terrifying friend, because however long we have, here we are together and I see no sign of yin fen on you, and we are in possession of the knowledge that there was never any curse on me. For however long, there is no shadow on us.”
― Cassandra Clare, Learn About Loss

“I’m not sorry that I met you. If we never meet again, I will hope that one day a weapon made by my hand may yet prove useful to you in some way.”
― Cassandra Clare, Learn About Loss

“Will said you came from a long way to live here - were you in Idris?’
He raised his eyebrows. ‘You know of Idris?’
‘Or did you come from anther institute? They’re in all the big cities, aren’t they? And why to London -‘
He interrupted her, bemused. ‘You ask a lot of questions, don’t you?’
‘My brother always says curiosity is my besetting sin.’
‘As sins go, it isn’t the word one.’ He sat down on the steamer trunk at the foot of the bed, and regarded her with a curious gravity. ‘So go ahead; ask me whatever you want.I can’t sleep anyway, and distractions are welcome.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“Will told me you came from very far away. Where did you live before?’
‘Shanghai,’ Jem said. ‘You know where that is?’
‘Chine,’ said Tessa with some indignation. ‘Doesn’t everyone know that?’
Jem grinned. ‘You’d be surprised.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“But we bear so much that seems unthinkable. The only truly unbearable burden is living without love.”
― Cassandra Clare, Through Blood, Through Fire

“Jace Herondale, once more a Herondale is the bringer of my deliverance. I should have anticipated.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“So that is when we are,” Will said. “But what I don’t know is where we are. Or how this is happening.”
“I think,” Jem said, “that a friend has made a bargain for me. I think that we are here together because the demon Belial is afraid of her, and she asked this for me. Because I would not ask for myself.”
― Cassandra Clare, Learn About Loss

“Tessa, he said. Even when I cannot see, you are so beautiful.”
― Cassandra Clare, A Deeper Love

“Will? Will is that you?"

"Tessa? Tessa is that you?"

"Will? Is that you Will?”
― cassandra clare, Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess

“How could three people who cared for one another so much cause one another so much pain?”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

“Wathever 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.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“La desesperación nunca era más fuerte que al pensar en ellos. No podía traicionarlos rindiéndose.
Eran Will y Tessa, y tú eras Ke Jian Ming. Eras James Carstairs. Eras Jem.”
― Cassandra Clare, Son of the Dawn

“Now, don’t tell me that’s all the questions you have.’
Oh, I have more than you think. ‘Why can’t you sleep?’
She saw that she had caught him off guard; a look of hesitancy flashed across his face before he spoke. But why hesitate? she thought. He could always lie, or simply deflect, as Will would have. But Jem, she sensed instinctively, wouldn’t lie. “I have bad dreams.’
‘I was dreaming too,’ she said. ‘I dreamed about your music.’
He grinned. ‘A nightmare, then?’
‘No. It was lovely. The loveliest thing I’ve heard since I came to this horrible city.’
‘London isn’t horrible,’ Jem said equably. ‘You simply have to get to know it. You must come with me out into London someday. I can show you the parts of it that are beautiful - that I love.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“Miraron juntos al báculo. Las letras estaban desgastadas por el tiempo como por la propia carne de Zachariah, pero habían sido grabadas profundamente en la madera en los lugares precisos donde pondría sus manos cuando peleara. Entonces, de alguna manera, siempre estarían peleando juntos.
Las letras eran W y H.”
― Cassandra Clare, Son of the Dawn

“Los ojos de la mujer fallecida miraban su rostro, un último destello vacío antes de que la oscuridad consumiera todo. Parecía como si él estuviera tan vacío como ella. ¿Por qué había luchado?
Entonces recordó. No podía permitirse olvidarlo.
Tessa, pensó. Will.”
― Cassandra Clare, Son of the Dawn

“Su belleza no era como la de Will, en fieros colores y fuego contenido, pero tenía una singular perfección callada, el encanto de la nieve cayendo contra un cielo plateado”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“When I am in the darkness, I want to think of it in the light, with you.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

“Will told me you came from very far away. Where did you live before?’
‘Shanghai,’ Jem said. ‘You know where that is?’
‘China,’ said Tessa with some indignation. ‘Doesn’t everyone know that?’
Jem grinned. ‘You’d be surprised.”
― cassandra clare, Clockwork Angel

“This boy, hell-bent on fighting rather than finding a family. The Lightwoods guarding against a vampire, when they could have extended some trust. This vampire, holding every friend at bay. All of them had their wounds, but Brother Zachariah could not help resenting them, for even the privilege of feeling hurt.

All these people were struggling not to feel, trying to freeze their hearts inside their chests until the cold fractured and broke them. While Jem would have given every cold tomorrow he had for one more day with a warm heart, to love them as he once had.”
― Cassandra Clare, Son of the Dawn

“When you walk in the world, I will be the light at your side, the ground steady under your feet, the force that drives the sword in your hand.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

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