↳ Tessa Gray  “ One does not question miracles, or complain that they are not constructed perfectly to one’s liking.”

tmi/tid meme: four objects tessa’s clockwork angel [2/4] "Tessa could not remember a time when she had not loved the clockwork angel. It had belonged to her mother once, and her mother had been wearing it when she died. After that it had sat in her mother’s jewelry box, until her brother, Nathaniel, took it out one day to see if it was still in working order. The angel was no bigger than Tessa’s pinky finger, a tiny statuette made of brass, with folded wings no larger than a cricket’s. It had a delicate metal face with shut crescent eyelids, and hands crossed over a sword in front. Nate had exclaimed in surprise that it was still working after so many years. With a shrug he’d given the angel to Tessa. From that moment she had never taken it off; even at night the angel lay against her chest as she slept, its constant ticktock, ticktock like the beating of a second heart."

YA Lit Meme: [4/5] protagonists ——-> Tessa Gray, The Infernal Devices