55 Quotes About Will Herondale

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

I thought perhaps that when you told me you did not love me that my own feelings would fall away and atrophy, but they have not. They have grown every day. I love you now more desperately, this moment, than I have ever loved you before, and in an hour I will love you more than that Cassandra Clare

Value your parabatai, " he said. "For it is a precious bond. All love is precious. It is why we do what we do. Why do we fight demons? Why are they not fit custodians of this world? What makes us better? It is because they do not build, but destroy. They do not love, but hate only. We are human and fallible, we Shadowhunters. But if we did not have the capability to love, we could not guard humans; we must love to guard them. My parabatai, he loved like few ever could love, with all and everything. I see you are like that too; it burns more brightly in you than the fire of Heaven. Cassandra Clare

He opened his mouth. The words were there. He was about to say them when a jolt of terror went through him, the terror of someone who, wandering in a mist, pauses only to realise that they have stopped inches from the edge of a gaping abyss. The way she was looking at him - she could read what was in his eyes, he realised. It must have been written plainly there, like words on the page of a book. There had been no time, no chance, to hide it.“ Will, ” she whispered. “Say something, Will.”But there was nothing to say. There was only emptiness, as there had been before her. As there would always be.' I have lost everything', Will thought. 'Everything. . Cassandra Clare

Pulvis et umbra sumus. It's a line from Horace. 'We are dust and shadows'. Appropriate, don't you think?" Will said. "It's not a long life, killing demons; one tends to die young, and then they burn your body - dust to dust, in the literal sense. And then we vanish into the shadows of history, nary a mark on the page of a mundane book to remind the world that once we existed at all. Cassandra Clare

Trains are great dirty smoky things, " said Will. "You won't like it." Tessa was unmoved. "I won't know if I like it until I try it, will I?" "I've never swum naked in the Thames before, but I know I wouldn't like it." "But think how entertaining for sightseers, " said Tessa, and she saw Jem duck his head to hide the quick flash of his grin. Cassandra Clare

Charlotte, darling, Henry said to his wife, who was staring at im in gape-mouthed horror. Jassamine, beside her, was wided eyed. Sorry im late. You know, i think i might nearly have the sensor working- Will interrupted. Henry, he said, your on fire. You do know that, don't you? Oh, yes, Henry said eagerly. The flames were now nearly to his shoulder. I've been working like a man possessed all day. Charlotte, did you hear what i said about the sensor? Charlotte dropped her hand from her mouth. Henry! She shrieked. Your arm! Henry glanced down at his arm, and his mouth dropped open. Bloody hell! . Cassandra Clare

I adore Wilkie Collins, ” Tessa cried. “Oh–Armadale! And The Woman in White …Are you laughing at me?”“ Not at you, ” said Will, grinning, “more because of you. I’ve never seen anyone get soexcited over books before. You’d think they were diamonds.”“ Well, they are, aren’t they? Isn’t there anything you love like that? And don’t say ‘spats’ or ‘lawn tennis’ or something silly.”“ Good Lord, ” he said with mock horror, “it’s like she knows me already. . Cassandra Clare

Tessa had lain down beside him and slid her arm beneath his head, and put her head on his chest, listening to the ever-weakening beat of his heart. And in the shadows they'd whispered, reminding each other of the stories only they knew. Of the girl who had hit over the head with a water jug the boy who had come to rescue her, and how he had fallen in love with her in that instant. Of a ballroom and a balcony and the moon sailing like a ship untethered through the sky. Of the flutter of the wings of the clockwork Angel. Of holy water and blood. Cassandra Clare

Will grinned. “Some of these books are dangerous, ” he said. “It’s wise to be careful.”“ One must always be careful of books, ” said Tessa, “and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”“ I’m not sure a book has ever changed me, ” said Will. “Well, there is one volume that promises to teach one how to turn oneself into an entire flock of sheep–”“ Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry, ” said Tessa. Cassandra Clare

Jem gave her a wistful look. “Must you go? I was rather hoping that you’d stay and be a ministering angel, but if you must go, you must.” “ I’ll stay, ” Will said a bit crossly, and threw himself down in the armchair Tessa had just vacated. “I can minister angelically.” “ None too convincingly. And you’re not as pretty to look at as Tessa is, ” Jem said, closing his eyes as he leaned back against the pillow. “ How rude. Many who have gazed upon me have compared it to gazing at the radiance of the sun.” Jem still had his eyes closed. “If they mean that it gives you a headache, they aren’t wrong. Cassandra Clare

Demon pox, oh demon pox Just how is it acquired? One must go down to the bad part of town Until one is very tired. Demon pox, oh demon pox, I had it all along– Not the pox, you foolish blocks, I mean this very song– For I was right, and you were wrong! Cassandra Clare

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. Cassandra Clare

Tessa craned her head back to look at Will. “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.” His blue eyes were dark with understanding – of course Will would understand – and she hurried on. “I feel now as if the same is happening, only not to characters on a page but to my own beloved friends and companions. I do not want to sit by while tragedy comes for us. I would turn it aside, only I struggle to discover how that might be done.”“ You fear for Jem, ” Will said.“ Yes, ” she said. “And I fear for you, too.”“ No, ” Will said, hoarsely. “Don’t waste that on me, Tess. Cassandra Clare

He pulled the Carstairs family ring from his finger and held it out to Will. "Take it." Will let his eyes drift down toward it, and then up to Jem's face. A dozen awful things he could say, or do, went through his mind. One did not slough off a persona so quickly, he had found. He had pretended to be cruel for so many years that the pretense was still what he reached for first, as a man might absently turn his carriage toward the home he had lived in for all his life, despite the fact that he had recently moved. "You wish to marry me now?" he said, at last. Cassandra Clare

I suspect he's sweet on Sophie and doesn't like to see her work too hard.' Tessa was glad to hear it. She'd felt awful about her reaction to Sophie's scar, and the thought that Sophie had a male admirer - and a handsome one like that- eased her conscience slightly. 'Perhaps he's in love with Agatha', she said.' I hope not. I intend to marry Agatha myself. She may be a thousand years old, but she makes an incomparable jam tart. Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal. Cassandra Clare

They say you cannot love two people equally at once, ” she said. “And perhaps for others that is so. But you and Will–you are not like two ordinary people, two people who might have been jealous of each other, or who would have imagined my love for one of them diminished by my love of the other. You merged your souls when you were both children. I could not have loved Will so much if I had not loved you as well. And I could not love you as I do if I had not loved Will as I did. Cassandra Clare

Will stopped glaring at Gabriel, and turned to Tessa. He looked at her and his face softened: the traces of the wild, broken boy he had been vanished, replaced with the expression often worn by the man he was now, who knew what it was to love and be loved. “Dear heart, ” he said. He took her hand and kissed it. “Who knows your courage better than I? Cassandra Clare

I would die for you. You know that. I would die without you. If it were not for you, I would be dead a hundred times over these past five years. Cassandra Clare

Will stared down at his hands. "My whole life wrecked, destroyed..." "You're seventeen, " Magnus said. "You can't have wrecked a life you've barely lived. Cassandra Clare

There is more to living than not dying, " he said. "Look at the way you live, Will. You burn as bright as a star. Cassandra Clare

Will. For a moment her heart hesitated. She remembered when Will had died, her agony, the long nights alone, reaching across the bed every morning when she woke up, for years expecting to find him there, and only slowly growing accustomed to the fact that side of the bed would always be empty. The moments when she had found something funny and turned to share the joke with him, only to be shocked anew that he was not there. The worst moments, when, sitting alone at breakfast, she had realized that she had forgotten the precise blue of his eyes or the depth of his laugh; that, like the sound of Jem's violin music, they had faded into the distance where memories are silent. Cassandra Clare

It felt like being shot with an arrow, and Will jerked back. His wineglass crashed to the floor and shattered. He lurched to his feet, leaning both hands on the table. He was vaguely aware of stares, and the landlords anxious voice in his ear, but the pain was too great to think through, almost too great to breathe through. The tightness in his chest, the one he had thought of as one end of a cord tying him to Jem, had pulled so taut that it was strangling his heart. He stumbled away from his table, pushing through a knot of customers near the bar, and passed to the front door of the inn. All he could think of was air, getting air into his lungs to breathe. He pushed the doors open and half-tumbled out into the night. For a moment the pain in his chest eased, and he fell back against the wall of the inn. Rain was sheeting down, soaking his hair and clothes. He gasped, his heart stuttering with a misture of terror and desperation. Was this just the distance from Jem affecting him? He had never felt anything like this, even when Jem was at his worst, even when he'd been injured and Will had ached with sympathetic pain. The cord snapped. For a moment everything went white, the courtyard bleeching through as if with acid. Will jackknifed to his knees, vomiting up his supper into the mud. When the spasms had passed , he staggard to his feet and blindly away from the inn, as if trying to outpace his own pain. He fetched up against the wall of the stables, beside the horse trough. He dropped to his knees to plunge his hands into the icy water-and saw his own reflection. There was his face, as white as death, and his shirt, and a spreading stain of red across the front. With wet hands he siezed at his lapels and jerked the shirt open. In the dim light that spilled from the inn, he could see that his parabati rune, just over his heart, was bleeding. His hands were covered in blood, blood mixed with rain, the same ran that was washing the blood away from his chest, showing the rune as it began to fade from black to silver, changing all that had been sense in Will's life into nonsense. Jem was dead. Cassandra Clare

Because women never say what they think. Cassandra Clare

Will’s voice dropped. “Everyone makes mistakes, Jem.”“Yes, ” said Jem. “You just make more of them than most people.”“ I –”“You hurt everyone, ” said Jem. “Everyone whose life you touch.”“ Not you, ” Will whispered. “I hurt everyone but you. I never meant tohurt you.” Jem put his hands up, pressing his palms against his eyes. “Will –”“You can’t never forgive me, ” Will said in disbelief, hearing thepanic tinging his own voice. “I’d be –”“Alone?” Jem lowered his hand, but he was smiling now, crookedly. “Andwhose fault is that? . Cassandra Clare

Anyone that looked like that wouldn't need to tie up girls and imprison them in order to get them to marry him Cassandra Clare

The first one is always the hardest. Cassandra Clare

Tessa never could look at him without a tightening in her chest, a painful stutter of her heart. Cassandra Clare

Come back to me, Tessa. Henry said that perhaps, since you had touched the soul of an angel, that you dream of Heaven now, of fields of angels and flowers of fire. Perhaps you are happy in those dreams. But I ask this out of pure selfishness. Come back to me. For I cannot bear to lose all my heart. Cassandra Clare

Their beauty had always seemed to him like the beauty of pressed flowers-lovely, but dead. Cassandra Clare

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

Will: 'Singing the praises of our fair city? We treat you well here, don't we, James? I doubt I'd have that kind of luck in Shanghai. What do you call us there again?' Jem: 'Yang guizi ... foreign devils. Cassandra Clare

Can one regret a thing that, however unwise, was beautiful? Cassandra Clare

In Will's experience, when someone who ought to be afraid wasn't, the reason was rarely bravery. Usually it meant that they knew something you didn't. Cassandra Clare

Wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness Cassandra Clare

With God on your side, what does luck matter? Cassandra Clare

I believe everything you say, " Tessa said with a smile, her hands creeping down from his waist to his weapons belt. Her fingers closed on the hilt of a dagger, and she yanked it from the belt, smiling as he looked down at her in surprise. She kissed his cheek and stepped back. "After all, " she said, "you weren't lying about that tattoo of the dragon of Wales, were you? Cassandra Clare

Do you miss Wales?” Tessa inquired. Will shrugged lightly. “What’s to miss? Sheep and singing, ” he said. “And the ridiculous language. Fe hoffwn i fod mor feddw, fyddai ddim yn cofio fy enw.”“ What does that mean?”“ It means ‘I wish to get so drunk I no longer remember my own name, ’ Quite useful. Cassandra Clare

I can't - I'll chop off my own foot! " "If you're going to chop off anyone's foot, chop off Benedict's, " Will muttered. Cassandra Clare

A sense of hopelessness had invaded his bones, as chill and as inescapable as the rain. Cassandra Clare

Magnus began to be truly alarmed. Will's voice would have shaken, betraying that his cruelty had been part of his playacting, but his son's laugh was that of someone genuinely delighted by the chaos erupting all around him Cassandra Clare

Even more blood welled up and spilled down his arm, splattering onto the ground.“ Camille’s carpet, ” Magnus protested.“ It’s blood, ” said Will. “She ought to be thrilled. Cassandra Clare

Jem grinned. “Where have you been? The Blue Dragon? The Mermaid?” “The Devil Tavern if you must know.” Will sighed and leaned against one of the posts of the bed. “I had such plans for the evening. The pursuit of blind drunkenness and wayward women was my goal. But alas, it was not to be. No sooner had I consumed my third drink in the Devil than I was accosted by a delightful small flower-selling child who asked me for two-pence for a daisy. The price seemed steep, so I refused. When I told the girl as much, she proceeded to rob me.” “ A little girl robbed you?” Tessa said. “ Actually, she wasn’t a little girl at all, as it turns out, but a midget in a dress who goes by the name of Six-Fingered Nigel.” “Easy mistake to make, ” Jem said. Cassandra Clare

I want you to be happy, and him to be happy. And yet when you walk down that aisle to meet him and join yourselves forever you will walk an invisible path of the shards of my heart, Tessa. I would give over my own life for either of yours. I perhaps that when you told me you did not love me my feelings would fall away and atrophy, but they have not. They have grown every day. I love you now more desperately, this moment, than I have ever loved you before, and in an hour I will love you more than that. It is unfair to tell you this, I know, when you can do nothing about it. . Cassandra Clare

Jessamine recoiled from the paper as if it were a snake. "A lady does not read the newspaper. The society pages, perhaps, or the theater news. Not this filth."" But you are not a lady, Jessamine---, " Charlotte began." Dear me, " said Will. "Such harsh truths so early in the morning cannot be good for the digestion. Cassandra Clare