Clockwork Angel

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

e. "Thomas! We must away at once to the nearest brothel! I seek scandal and low companionship."

“Sometimes,” Jem said, “our lives can change so fast that the change outpaces our minds and hearts. It’s those times, I think, when our lives have altered but we still long for the time before everything was altered—that is when we feel the greatest pain. I can tell you, though, from experience, you grow accustomed to it. You learn to live your new life, and you can’t imagine, or even really remember, how things were before.”

His steady gaze held hers. His blue eyes were very dark, uniquely so. She had known people before with blue eyes, but they had always been light blue. Will’s were the color of the sky just on the edge of night.

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

Dreams can be dangerous things.”

Aunt used to say he was a dreamer,” she said. “He always lived in his head. He never cared about how things were, only how they would be, someday, when he had everything he wanted. When we had everything we wanted,”

“Pulvis et umbra sumus. It’s a line from Horace. ‘We are dust and shadows.’

If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?

ou think she’s pretty?” Will was surprised; Jem rarely opined on this sort of thing.
“Yes, and you do too.”