William Herondale Quotes

Perhaps," he said, "we should discuss our arrangements, then. ~ Cassandra Clare

The spoils of vice are a burdensome responsibility. - Will
Yet one you seem strangely able to bear. - Jem ~ Cassandra Clare

They were staring at Will, Will looks wrong."
Tessa glanced over at Will, who was rummaging through the desk drawers with gloved hands.
"I find that hard to credit from someone dressed as you are. ~ Cassandra Clare

Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck.- William Herondale ~ Cassandra Clare

I am," said Tessa. "I am Theresa Gray, daughter of a Greater Demon and Elizabeth Gray, who was born Adele Starkweather, one of your kind. I was the wife of William Herondale, who was the head of the London Institute, and I was the mother of James and Lucie Herondale. Will and I raised our Shadowhunter children to protect by the Laws of the Clave and Covenant, and to keep to the Accords. ~ Cassandra Clare

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

Will has always been the brighter burning star, the one to catch attention - but Jem is a steady flame, unwavering and honest. He could make you happy. ~ Cassandra Clare

But you love her."
Will stared at him. "Of course I do," he
said finally. "I had come to think I would
never love anyone, but I love her. ~ Cassandra Clare

You said I am a good man, but I am not that good a man. And I am - I am catastrophically in love with you.

~William Herondale, Page 413 ~ Cassandra Clare

I watch Jace Herondale play, and I see the ghosts that rise up in the music. Don't you?" "Ghosts are memories, and we carry them because those we love do not leave the world." "Yes," she said. I just wish he were here to see this with us, just here with us one more time. ~ Cassandra Clare

Such a fuss ofer a few mundanes." Mrs Dark chuckled and moved to stand beside her sister, so that Will, with his blazing sword, was between Tessa and both ladies. "We have no quarrel with you, Shadowhunter, unless you choose to pick one. You have invaded our territory and broken the Covenant Law in doing so. We could report you to the Clave-"
"While the Clave disapproves of trespassers, oddly, they take an even darker view of beheading and skinning people. They're peculiar that way," Will said ~ Cassandra Clare

Why are we bringing him along, again?" Will inquired, of the world in general as well as his sister.
Cecily put her hands on her hips. "Why are you bringing Tessa?"
"Because Tessa and I are going to be married," Will said, and Tessa smiled; the way that Will's little sister could ruffle his feathers like no one else was still amusing to her.
"Well, Gabriel and I might well be married," Cecily said. "Someday."
Gabriel made a choking noise, and turned an alarming shade of purple.
Will threw up his hands. "You can't be married Cecily! You're only fifteen! When I get married, I'll be eighteen! An adult!"
Cecily did not look impressed. "We may have a long engagement," she said. "But I cannot see why you are counseling me to marry a man my parents have never met."
Will sputtered. "I am not counseling you to marry a man your parents have never met!"
"Then we are in agreement. Gabriel must meet Mam and Dad. ~ Cassandra Clare

Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal. ~ Cassandra Clare

No, said Jem, because he was always James Carstairs when he spoke of what was dearest to him. Not mine. My parabatai's. W and H. William Herondale. Will ~ Cassandra Clare

She had never thought about her name much before, but when he said it, it was as if she were hearing it for the first time - the hard T, the caress of the double S, the way it seemed to end on a breath. ~ Cassandra Clare

The moment the door closed behind him, Tessa was in Will's arms, her hands locked about his neck. "Oh, by the Angel," she said. "That was mortifying."
Will slid his hands into her hair and was kissing her, kissing her eyelids and her cheeks and then her mouth, quickly but with fervor and concentration, as if nothing could be more important. "Listen to you," he said. "You said 'by the angel.' Like a Shadowhunter." He kissed the side of her mouth. "I love you. God, I love you. I waited so long to say it. ~ Cassandra Clare

The handsome young fellow who's trying to rescue you from a hideous fate is never wrong. ~ Cassandra Clare

Tessa touched his wrist lightly with her hand. "Be brave," she said. "It's not a duck, is it? ~ Cassandra Clare

While the Clave disapproves of trespassers, oddly they take an even darker view of beheading and skinning people. They're peculiar that way. ~ Cassandra Clare

Sometimes, when I have to do something I don't want to do, I pretend I'm a character from a book. It's easier to know what they would do. ~ Cassandra Clare

My name is Herondale," the boy said cheerfully. "William Herondale, but everyone calls me Will. Is this really your room? Not very nice, is it?" He wandered toward the window, pausing to examine the stacks of books on her bedside table, and then the bed itself. He waved a hand at the ropes. "Do you often sleep tied to the bed? ~ Cassandra Clare

Do reasons matter when there's nothing that can be done to change things. ~ Cassandra Clare

I have lost everything. Lost everything.
Everything. - William Herondale ~ Cassandra Clare

He wanted to sit and listen to her talk about books until his ears fell off. ~ Cassandra Clare

JEM: Is there a particular reason you keep biting vampires?
WILL: They don't expect it.
JEM: Of course they don't. They know what happens when one of us consumes vampire blood. They probably expect you to have more sense.
WILL: That expectation never seems to serve them very well, does it?
JEM: It hardly serves you, either. ~ Cassandra Clare

I've mastered many thing's in my life. Navigating the streets of London, dancing the quadrille, the Japanese art of flower arranging, lying at charades, concealing a highly intoxicated state, delighting young women with my charms ... "
Tessa stared.
"Alas," he went on, "no one has ever actually referred to me as 'the master' or 'the magister', either. More's the pity ... "
"Are you highly intoxicated at the moment? ~ Cassandra Clare

I was looking for the opposite, really -something that might put an end to being in love ~ Cassandra Clare

Epictetus echoes this advice: We should keep in mind that "all things everywhere are perishable. ~ William B. Irvine

When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them. ~ William Osler

We must continue to deepen our ties to the Americas and the Caribbean, our common work to educate children, fight drugs, strengthen democracy, and increase trade. ~ William J. Clinton

They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We see ourselves at second-hand in them: they show us all that we are, all that we wish to be, and all that we dread to be. What brings the resemblance nearer is, that, as they imitate us, we, in our turn, imitate them. There is no class of society whom so many persons regard with affection as actors. ~ William Hazlitt

At a time when threats to the physical environment have never been greater, it may be tempting to believe that people need to be mounting the barricades rather than asking abstract questions about the human place in nature. Yet without confronting such questions, it will be hard to know which barricades to mount, and harder still to persuade large numbers of people to mount them with us. To protect the nature that is all around us, we must think long and hard about the nature we carry inside our heads. ~ William Cronon

It is difficult to see anything but infatuation in the destructive temperament which leads to the action ... that each of us is to rejoice that our several units are to be distinguished at death into countless millions of organisms; for such, it seems, is the latest revelation delivered from the fragile tripod of a modern Delphi. ~ William E. Gladstone

The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment. ~ William Arthur Ward

We come here with no peaceful intent, but ready for battle, determined to avenge our wrongs and set our country free. ~ William Wallace

My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand. ~ William Shakespeare

He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause. ~ William Shakespeare

Value denotes a relation reciprocally existing between two objects, and the precise relation which it denotes is the quantity of the one which can be obtained in exchange for a given quantity of the other. ~ Nassau William Senior

Winter's notion of poetry is tragedy. It knows nothing of comedy. Its laughter was frozen on its lips long ago. ~ William Alfred Quayle

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again. ~ William James

The Mona Lisa, the Mona Lisa....Leonardo had eye trouble....Art couldn't explain it....But now we're safe, since science can explain it. Maybe Milton wrote Paradise Lost because he was blind? And Beethoven wrote the Ninth Symphony because he was deaf... ~ William Gaddis

I have no regrets at all. ~ William Hung

The end depends on the beginning ~ William Hundert - The Emperors Club

Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work. ~ William Klein

No sermon on love can fail to mention love's most difficult problem in our time--how to find effective ways to alleviate the massive suffering of humanity at home and abroad. What we need to realize is that to love effectively we must act collectively... ~ William Sloane Coffin

If I mayn't tell you what I feel, what is the use of a friend? ~ William Makepeace Thackeray

With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars. ~ William Wordsworth

Any experience is profitable if you allow it to be, all actions are profitable, no matter how badly you may suffer from them. ~ William Goldman

A good lenten answer! I can tell thee where that saying was born, of 'I fear no colours. ~ William Shakespeare

Sincerity? I can fake that. ~ William J. Clinton

We continued to move forward without loss of time, hoping to be able to reach the wood described by the Indians before all our horses should become exhausted. ~ William Henry Ashley

The market has a simple way of whittling all excessive pride and overblown egos down to size. After all, the whole idea is to be completely objective and recognize what the marketplace is telling you, rather than try to prove that the thing you said or did yesterday or six weeks ago was right. The fastest way to take a bath in the stock market or go broke is to try to prove that you are right and the market is wrong. ~ William O'Neil

As you open up your life to the Spirit's control, you do not get more of the Spirit, but He gets more of you. ~ William Thrasher

When people say that students at elite schools have a sense of entitlement, that is what they are referring to: the belief that you deserve more than other people because your SAT scores are higher. Of course, your SAT scores are higher because you have already gotten more than other people. ~ William Deresiewicz

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell. ~ William Tecumseh Sherman

Only by showing the world the cataclysmic cost of a world divided can it appreciate the wonders of life and endless possibilities of a world united. ~ William Bailey

I stood, in shame and confusion, seeing for the first time despite my anger a different picture of Evie in her life-long struggle to be clean and sweet. It was as if this object of frustration and desire had suddenly acquired the attributes of a person rather than a thing... ~ William Golding

A peculiarity of capital is that it cannot be employed productively without benefiting the community in which it is used. ~ William Feather

It may be safely affirmed that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition ... They both speak by and to the same organs; the bodies in which both of them are clothed may be said to be of the same substance, their affections are kindred, and almost identical, not necessarily differing even in degree; Poetry sheds no tears "such as Angels weep," but natural and human tears; she can boast of no celestial ichor that distinguishes her vital juices from those of prose; the same human blood circulates through the veins of them both. ~ William Wordsworth

Death needs time for what it kills to grow in. ~ William S. Burroughs

Nothing in our lifetimes has been more heartening than when people of the former Soviet Union and Central Europe broke the grip of communism. We have aided their progress and I am proud of it. ~ William J. Clinton

The blessedness of being little!!!
~ William Shakespeare

She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold. ~ William Shakespeare

Things aren't different. Things are things. ~ William Gibson

Britain is not a country that is easily rocked by revolution ... In Britain our institutions evolve. We are a Fabian Society writ large. ~ William Hamilton

But just as he knew the sun was obliged to rise each morning in the east, no matter how much a western arisal might have pleased it, so he knew that Buttercup was obliged to spend her love on him. Gold was inviting, and so was royalty, but they could not match the fever in his heart, and sooner or later she would have to catch it. She had less choice than the sun. ~ William Goldman

rats?" "I just said that." "But the attic is clean." "Well, okay, we've got tidy rats!" "No rats." "Karl, I heard them last night." "Maybe plumbing," Karl probed; "maybe boards." "Maybe rats! Will you buy the damn traps and quit arguing?" Bustling away, Karl, said, "Yes! I go now!" "No not now, Karl! The ~ William Peter Blatty

Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas. ~ William James

Since the invention of the kiss, there have only been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind. ~ William Goldman

A favorite cast? Lisa Kudrow, Anthony Hopkins, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and my wife. ~ William H. Macy

Do not plunge thyself too far in anger. ~ William Shakespeare

William Wilberforce ... w as a great man who impacted the Western world as few others have done. Blessed with brains, charm, influence and initiative, much wealth ... he put evangelism on Britain's map as a power for social change, first by overthrowing the slave trade almost single-handed and then by generating a stream of societies for doing good and reducing evil in public life ... To forget such men is foolish. ~ J.I. Packer

These are the ushers of Martius: before him
He carries noise, and behind him he leaves tears.
Death, that dark spirit, in's nervy arm doth lie,
Which being advanc'd, declines, and then men die. ~ William Shakespeare