"Never trust a duck" - Will Herondale
Clockwork Angel
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.
The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare - First Words
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“I write books for teenagers because when I was a teenager, that was the best reading time of my life. It was the time I experienced reading the most intensely and read the most widely and with the most excitement. I wanted a chance to experience that again through writing for teens.” -Cassandra Clare
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Clockwork Angel
“Remember when you tried to convince me to feed a poultry pie to the mallards in the park to see if you could breed a race of cannibal ducks?”
“They ate it too,” Will reminisced. “Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck.”
City of Lost Souls
Your bracelet,” she said. “Acheronta movebo.’ It doesn’t mean ‘Thus always to tyrants.’ That’s ‘sic semper tyrannis.’ This is from Virgil. ‘Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo.’ If I cannot move Heaven, I will raise Hell.
Latin phrases that Cassie used in TMI and TID
acheronta movebo =I will move/raise hell
pulvis et umbra sumus = we are dust and shadows
Dura lex, sed lex = Law is hard, but it is law
Amor verus numquam moritur = True love never dies.
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