Top 40 Jessica Cluess Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “There is no winner till the race is run.”

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2. “Gods dream of empires, but devils build them.”

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3. “You’re a cuckoo in the nest. If they learn the truth, they’ll push you out and break your neck.”

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4. “We might cause a scandal, a young lady and a gentleman going to the kitchen without an escort. We should shock them by baking something together.”

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5. “Knowledge is as powerful as fire. The brighter it burns, the more it devours.”

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6. “Every day, the prince returned with honeyed words. He brought gifts, hired musicians. Every day, the fairie was gracious and kind, but composed. Still, he wore down her defenses with his charm. And the prince was sincere in his courtship – he somehow forgot how rakish his intentions were. He was a man who lived for the present moment.”

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7. “Despite everything – your lies, your wounds, I cannot help but love you. I’m helpless against it.”

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8. “I would do most anything to make you happy, Howel, if you’d let me. I would become your servant, lay whatever you wanted at your feet.”

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9. “There are other sorcerer women in history you might admire,” Agrippa said. “Hypatia of Alexandria, the teacher. Much like you.” He smiled. “Hatshepsut, deemed by many as the greatest pharaoh in Egypt’s long history.” It struck me as odd that most sorcerer women belonged solely to antiquity, as if the glory of female magic were some crumbling myth to be debated by scholars.”

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10. “We must blame the accursed Howard Mickelmas, my dear girl. He’s the one who thought it such fun to rip a hole in time and space, to summon those evil Ancients from some far, distant world. He’s to blame, along with that witch, that Mary Willoughby. They ruined it for the rest of us.” He sighed. “Did you know that magicians flourished back in the Golden Age, when good Queen Elizabeth was alive? We were the most learned, the most ambitious. We were the future.”

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11. “I am not interested in what is pleasant. I’m interested in what’s useful.”

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12. “Most of the world’s agony comes from what people misinterpret in books, the rest from pampered house cats.”

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13. “It sometimes feels as though young women are trained from birth never to contribute anything original to a conversation.”

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14. “If you’re so certain,” I said, my voice rocky and low, “that the poor are born inferior, then all the shame in the world on you for not protecting them. If people are born generation after generation into poverty and deprivation, it is your duty to look after them, not sacrifice their lives to save your own!”

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15. “I have always been uncomfortable with fragile things, like feelings and confessions. Butterflies, too.”

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16. “I mean, if he turned someone into a talking horse I’d laugh. Then I’d ride it around a bit. Then dress it in several hats. Then I’d get him to turn it back to a person.”

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17. “What about Rook?”

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18. “Your stupidity is terrifying.”

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19. “Corsets were not designed for battling monsters.”

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20. “Well, it was either be brilliant or work very hard. Brilliance takes less effort.”

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21. “You are the better part of my soul.”

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22. “I find a dash of insolence to be quite enjoyable from time to time.”

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23. “Ever since Cellini’s attack, Blackwood and the others had taken extra care of me. Lambe and Wolff showed me new strategies for chess. Dee tried especially hard not to step on my feet during dance practice.”

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24. “Part of me wanted to bury my face against him, to tell him everything. The sane part of me knew that such a thing was impossible. Why did I have to lie to people who were so good to me? What type of person did that make me?”

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25. “What was I doing considering any of this?”

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26. “I know your mind, and I swear to God if you take it upon yourself to go to him, I will drag you home even if it kills me. Do you hear?” His eyes shone with panic. “I’ll never let him have you.”

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27. “Art is strange, really. It envelops you in lies, but it also confronts you with such vivid reality.”

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28. “I didn’t know how lonely I was,” he said as we bowed, “until I had you on my side.”

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29. “Real magic,” Hargrove said, waving his hand again and returning the beetle to half a gold piece, “is about pushing the limits of what can and cannot be imagined. But I expect you’re all still content with starting fires and making it rain.” He swept the cards back into the pack and slid it into his purple-orange-red coat. “At least our magic is perfectly natural,” I muttered, stung by his rudeness.”

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30. “He was silent a moment. Then he said, “We need you. That’s what’s important. The rest is titles.” Gently, he took my hand in his own. It wasn’t a romantic gesture; it was deeper than that. We.”

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31. “Affection pulsed through me. “If there’s one thing I took from those Sundays in church, it’s that we’re called to love the lowest.”

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32. “Well, better to beg forgiveness than ask permission.”

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33. “People do what they think is right, but that does not make it good.”

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34. “I don’t need to be the first man who loved you. Only let me be the last.”

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35. “Ladies are so much cleverer than gentlemen. They enjoy good conversation and great fun, two things without which I cannot live.” “Life truly is just a game to you, isn’t it?” I said, almost impressed.”

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36. “It’s easy to poke fun at the world and think yourself clever, but it’s much harder to stand silent and endure.”

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37. “We were marked for one another in darkness.”

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38. “Love had enveloped me, twining my heart with his as snugly as the ivy on the garden wall.”

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39. “When I had your friendship, I thought I could never want for anything more. But over time, I have come to feel for you beyond anything I thought I could.”

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40. “My anxiety rendered my mind blank, just like he wanted. But whenever I touched Porridge to the water, nothing happened. Two hours ago, I’d created a wind current. Why was it so difficult now? My powers, whatever they were, seemed to work only when I was actively thinking. But that was wrong. Suppose.”

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