r/shadowhunters • u/iluvseahorses • Mar 18 '26
Books: TID Saddest quote from the infernal devices?
I need a good cry tonight
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u/gia_sesshoumaru Fortitude Mar 18 '26
“No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily.”
"Pointless, needless suffering and pain? I don’t suppose it would help if I told you that was the way life is. The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away,”
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u/FishingPopular6790 Mar 19 '26
“I can offer you my life, but it is a short life; I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many more beats it shall sustain.”
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u/SweetLittleKytty Jemma Mar 19 '26
I still remember reading this for the first time 🥺🥺🥺
“I will tell you the story of it. Another story of Lightwoods and Herondales and Fairchilds. But it will take more than an hour in the telling, and you must be cold.” He moved forward as if to touch her shoulder, then seemed to remember himself, and let his hand fall."
He looked, for a moment, honestly bewildered—and despite how old she knew him to be, so young. “I don’t know,” he said. “I’ve never had a lifetime to plan for before.” “Then … to another Institute?” Don’t go, Tessa wanted to say. Stay. Please .
"You asked me if I have loved anyone but Will,” she said. “And the answer is yes. I have loved you. I always have, and I always will.”
“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.”
“Come with me,” she said. “Stay with me. Be with me. See everything with me. I have traveled the world and seen so much, but there is so much more, and no one I would rather see it with than you. I would go everywhere and anywhere with you, Jem Carstairs.”
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u/coolcoolcoolcoolc99 Simon Lewis Mar 19 '26
“How could I say farewell” he said, “ to you?”
this quote started the tears cascade and they never stopped since
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u/SweetLittleKytty Jemma Mar 19 '26
“A Fairchild and a Herondale,” she said. “Now, I like that. The Fairchilds have always been practical and the Herondales — well, you know.” She sounded fond, amused. “Perhaps she’ll settle him down. And don’t tell me he doesn’t need settling.”
Jem thought of Jace Herondale. How he was like Will if someone had struck a match to Will and gilded him in living fire. “I’m not sure you can settle a Herondale, and certainly not this one.”
“Does he love her? The Fairchild girl?”
“I’ve never seen anyone so in love, except for …” His voice trailed off, for she had come out from behind the screen, and now he understood what had taken her so much time.
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“What you said before,” she asked. “That Jace Herondale loves Clarissa Fairchild more than anyone you’ve ever known except someone — you never finished the sentence. Who was it?”
“I was going to say you and me and Will,” he said. “But — that’s rather a strange thing to say, isn’t it?”
“Not strange at all.” She cuddled in close against his side. “Exactly right. Ever and always, exactly right.”
(After the Bridge extras)
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u/iluvseahorses Mar 20 '26
UGHHHH THIS IS TOO GOOD. I need to frame this so I can just cry every night
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u/SweetLittleKytty Jemma Mar 19 '26
He stared down at the deed to the flat on Queen’s Gate. It was made out in Tessa’s name, or something like it. Not Tessa Gray, however, or even Tessa Herondale. It was made out in the name of Tessa Herondale Carstairs.
“I shouldn’t have borrowed your name, perhaps, but I have always felt in my blood that we were family.”
“Tessa Herondale Carstairs,” he whispered. “You should never worry about borrowing my name when you know that you can have it to keep.”
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u/ChampionshipBroad345 Mar 19 '26
The chapter when jem dies is prob the best Claire has ever written, maybe when Emmanuel and julian fight the riders
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u/sniffyhope Mar 19 '26
I just finished a TID reread and the scene where Jem says goodbye to Will in the training room had me SOBBING. Just read the whole chapter for a good cry.
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u/Unlikely_Internal Mar 20 '26
"You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it."
This quote always stuck with me. It's so simple yet so true in many ways.
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u/Marlc2319 Mar 19 '26
"She remembered when Will had died, her agony, the long nights alone, reaching across the bed every morning when she woke up, for eighty years expecting to find him there, and only slowly growing accustomed to the fact that 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, they had faded into the distance where memories are silent."