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Your place is with me. It always will be. -Jem Carstairs -- Cassandra Clare
Jem put the full force of himself into each smile, so that he seemed to be smiling with his eyes, his heart, his whole being. -- Cassandra Clare
He flushed, the colour dark against his pale skin. 'I mean. Tessa Gray, will you do me the honour of becoming my wife?' Jem... -- Cassandra Clare
Jem knotted his fingers in the material of Will's sleeve. "You are my parabatai," he said, "You said once I could ask anything of you. -- Cassandra Clare
I don't know how I could sleep at night, not knowing I was surrounded by a thousand other sleeping, dreaming souls. - pg 120, Jem to Tessa & Will -- Cassandra Clare
He turned out the light and went into Jem's room. He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning. -- Harper Lee
I am nothing if not gracious," Will said. His eyes searched Jem's face, that face as familiar to him as his own. "And determined. You will not leave me. Not while I live. -- Cassandra Clare
Dill said striking a match under a turtle was hateful. "How do you know a match don't hurt him?" "Turtles can't feel, stupid," said Jem. "Where you ever a turtle, huh? -- Harper Lee
Will had shrugged once, helplessly. He had almost wished Jem would be angry with him. It would have been easier. He'd never felt so small within himself as he did when he faced Jem's expansive kindness. -- Cassandra Clare
No, everybody's gotta learn, nobody's born knowin'. That Walter's as smart as he can be, he just gets held back sometimes because he has to stay out and help his daddy. Nothin's wrong with him. Naw, Jem, I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks. -- Harper Lee
Jem is my greatest sin. -- Cassandra Clare
You are home for me now." --Jem to Tessa -- Cassandra Clare
Turtles don't feel, stupid," said Jem. "Were you ever a turtle, huh? -- Harper Lee
Jem?" he said. 'It is you, James?' 'Who else?' Jem's voice. -- Cassandra Clare
You must behave as if return is certain, not a matter of chance", Jem said. -- Cassandra Clare
I do not believe you can threaten people into goodness.â? - Jem Carstairs -- Cassandra Clare
I don't understand, Jem. I don't understand why you'd leave me. Why would you that? -- Rachel Ward
When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow. -- Harper Lee
I am sorry," Will said. "No," Jem said... "Don't be ordinary like that. Don't say you're sorry. -- Cassandra Clare
Jem drew back from her, looking dazed. "By the Angel," he said. "Perhaps we do need a chaperon. -- Cassandra Clare
We were once getting married. And I have loved you all this time- a century and a half. -Jem -- Cassandra Clare
Jem spoke with enormous care; talking to Will about anything personal was like trying not to startle away a wild animal. -- Cassandra Clare
I will still be in some part the Jem you knew, and I will see you with the eyes of my heart. -- Cassandra Clare
Will had laid down his heart for her and Jem to walk upon because he loved them more than he loved himself -- Cassandra Clare
Jem cried out with all his remaining strength. You cannot go where I am going! Nor would I want that for you! -- Cassandra Clare
When Will truly wants something,â? said Jem, quietly, â??when he feels something â?? he can break your heart. -- Cassandra Clare
Will you come with me? For I cannot wait to share the world with you, Jem. There is so much to see. -- Cassandra Clare
See there?" Jem was scowling triumphantly. "Nothin' to it. I swear, Scout, sometimes you act so much like a girl its mortifyin -- Harper Lee
Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I've tried to live so I can look squarely back at him. -- Harper Lee
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She knew she could not be Jem for Will. No one could. But slowly the hollow places in his heart were filling in. -- Cassandra Clare
Jem is nothing but goodness. That he struck you last night only shows how capable you are of driving even saints to madness. -- Cassandra Clare
For five years it had been his absolute truth. Jem and Will. Will and Jem. Will Herondale lives, therefore Jem Carstairs lives also. -- Cassandra Clare
There must always be a first," said Jem. "It is not easy to be first, and it is not always rewarding, but it is important. -- Cassandra Clare
As I made my way home, I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn't much else for us to learn, except possibly algebra. -- Harper Lee
Meanwhile, Will had begun cutting his toast into strips and was making rude pictographs out of them. Oh, that looks rather like a ...- , Jem began. -- Cassandra Clare
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Will suspected Jem was in fact cleverer than he was himself - but he lacked Will's tendency to assume the absolute worst about people and proceed from there. -- Cassandra Clare
Jem touched the parabatai rune on his shoulder, through the thin material of his nightshirt. "I am not alone," he said. "Wherever we are, we are as one. -- Cassandra Clare
Were you thinking about eating me?â? Will inquired. â??No!â? â??No one would blame you,â? said Jem. â??Heâ??s very annoying. -- Cassandra Clare
Will has always been the brighter burning star, the one to catch attention â?? but Jem is a steady flame, unwavering and honest. He could make you happy. -- Cassandra Clare
She did not belong to Will-she was too much herself to belong to anyone, even Jem-but she belonged with them, and silently he cursed the Consul for not seeing it. -- Cassandra Clare
I was just thinking of bunding up Cecily and feeding her to the ducks in Hyde Park," said Will, pushing his wet hair back and favoring Jem with a rare smile. -- Cassandra Clare
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Jem shook his head. "You bit de Quincey" he said. "You fool. He's a VAMPIRE" "I had no choice" said Will " He was choking me" "I know" Jem said. " But really Will, AGAIN? -- Cassandra Clare
Being Jem, Tessa reflected, must be a great deal like being the owner of a thouroughbred dog that liked to bite your guests. You had to have a hand on his collar constantly. -- Cassandra Clare
[Jem] looked from Will to Tessa and raised his silvery eyebrows. "A miracle," he said. "You got him to speak." "Just to shout at me, really," said Tessa. "Not quite loaves and fishes. -- Cassandra Clare
As metal rang on metal, some inner part of Jem, some part that had been lost without his even knowing it was lost, felt the pleasure of fighting together with Will one last time. -- Cassandra Clare
The Brother's hood fell back, and his silvery hair shone out in the dim chamber like starlight. All the air rushed out of Tessa's lungs in a single instant. The Silent Brother was Jem. -- Cassandra Clare
You think she is pretty?' Will was surprised; Jem rarely opined this sort of thing. 'Yes, and you do too.' 'I hadn't noticed, really.' 'Yes, you have, and I've noticed you noticing. -- Cassandra Clare
Astriola. That IS demon pox. You had evidence that demon pox existed and you didnt mention it to me! Et tu, Brute!' He rolled up the paper and hit Jem over the head with it. -- Cassandra Clare
He would look so young. They were both so young. Tessa knew it was unusual to marry at seventeen and eighteen, but they were racing a clock. The clock of Jem's life, before it wound down. -- Cassandra Clare
How rude. Many who have gazed upon me have compared the experience to gazing at the radiance of the sun." Jem still had his eyes closed. "If they mean it gives you a headache, they aren't wrong. -- Cassandra Clare
We said good-bye, and Dill went inside the house. He evidently remembered he was engaged to me, for he ran back out and kissed me swiftly in front of Jem. "Yawl write, hear?" he bawled after us. -- Harper Lee
When two souls are as one, they stay together on the Wheel. I was born into this world to love you, and I will love you in the next life, and the one after that." ~Jem Carstairs -- Cassandra Clare
Will: Have you ever seen what happens to someone with demon pox? First it lies dormant. One begins to turn yellow and green. Then the swelling sets in - Jem: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS DEMON POX. -- Cassandra Clare
Will: 'Singing the praises of our fair city? We treat you well here, don't we, James? I doubt I'd have that kind of luck in Shanghai. What do you call us there again?'Jem: 'Yang guizi ... foreign devils. -- Cassandra Clare
Do not think I do not know that Cecily wants you to return home with her. And do not think I do not know that you remain for Jem's sake." "And yours," he said before he could stop himself. -- Cassandra Clare
Jessamine flushed. "Ugh! Charlotte, Will's being vexing." "And the sun has come up in the east," said Jem to no one in particular. ... "And the sun comes up in the WEST," said Will, who had apparently heard Jem's earlier comment. -- Cassandra Clare
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Will rolled up his sleeves. "We'll probably have to knock down the door--" "Or," said Jem, reaching out and giving the knob a twist, "not." The door swung open onto a rectangle of darkness. "Now, that's simply laziness," said Will. -- Cassandra Clare
I am stronger when Tessa is here, you see. I told it to you," said Jem, still in the same soft voice. At that, Will did duck his head so that Tessa could not see his eyes. "I see it," he said. -- Cassandra Clare
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That Jem makes beautiful things and I destroy them. That it really ought to be me dying and not him. I mean, what's the point of living if you can't even enjoy it? Yet Jem enjoys all the life he's got. It's not fair. -- Cassandra Clare
I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that's why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with. -- Harper Lee
If you do not help me," Tessa said to Jem, "I swear, I will change into you, and I will lift him myself. And then everyone here will see what you look like in a dress." She fixed him with a look. "Do you understand? -- Cassandra Clare
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Yes, she doesn't really look like either of us, does she? Perhaps she's a girl who's fallen madly in love with me and persists in following me wherever I go." "My talent is shape-shifting, Will, not acting," said Tessa, and at that Jem laughed out loud. -- Cassandra Clare
I designed a guitar for Ibanez and then they started manufacturing it - it's called the Jem - it's 26 years old and I still play it. As a kid I liked Les Pauls and Strats, but they had limitations for the kind of playing I wanted to do. -- Steve Vai
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Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird. -- Harper Lee
I take your hand, brother, so that you may go in peace. Will had opened his blue eyes that never lost their colour over all the passing years, and looked at Jem and then Tessa, and smiled, and died, with Tessa's head on his shoulder and and his hand in Jem's. -- Cassandra Clare
If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other? Scout, I think I'm beginning to understand something. I think I'm beginning to understand why Boo Radley's stayed shut up in the house all this time. It's because he wants to stay inside. -- Harper Lee
I grew up singing professionally since I was 7 years old and so to get to play a character who's living out their Rock star dreams as JEM was pretty much epic. -- Samantha Newark

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