Wessa Quotes

“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, The Whitechapel Fiend

“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, Clockwork Princess

“Father nevver once looked at any woman the way he looked at Mother, with joy and thanksgiving, as if she was a living wish, granted past all hope.”
― Cassandra Clare, Nothing but Shadows

“Tessa never could look at him without a tightening in her chest, a painful stutter of her heat.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“Oh, if we could end love just by willing it, life would be very different!' Tessa laughed. 'It's easier to end someone else's love for you than kill your love for them. Convince them that you don't love them, or that you are someone they cannot respect —ideally both.' Her eyes were wide and gray and youthful, it was hard to believe she was older than nineteen. 'To change your own heart, that's nearly impossible.”
― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

“I had hope enough to take out those old dreams again, to dust them off and give them to you.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

“Of course you can have a true Shadowhunter name. You can have mine."
"Your name?"
"Marry me. 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, Clockwork Princess

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

“She is my priority! -Will Herondale”
― Cassandra Clare

“Which was how, some quarter of an hour later, Will came to be sitting in an armchair, reading from David Copperfield, when Charlotte pushed the door of Tessa’s room gently open with her fingers and peered inside. She could not help but be anxious—Will had looked so desperate slumped on the floor of the training room, so very much alone, and she remembered the fear she had always harbored, that if Jem ever left them, he would take all the best of Will with him when he went. And Tessa, too, was still so fragile….

Will’s soft voice filled the room, along with the muted glow of the light from the fire in the grate. Tessa was lying on her side, her brown hair spread over the pillow, watching Will, whose face was bent over the pages, with a look of tenderness in her eyes, a tenderness mirrored in the softness of Will’s voice as he read. It was a tenderness so intimate and so profound that Charlotte stepped away immediately, letting the door fall noiselessly shut behind her.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

“Her whole body ached; she ached, as if there were a terrible hollow emptiness inside her.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“There's plenty of sense in nonsense, sometimes, if you wish to look for it.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“Master Will has always been the brighter burning star, the one to catch attention - but Jem is a steady flame, unwavering and honest.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince