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

Jem, naturally, was Boo: he went under the front steps and shrieked and howled from time to time. — 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

I’m gonna be a new kind of clown. I’m gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks. — 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

I am sorry,’ Will said. ‘No,’ Jem said… ‘Don’t be ordinary like that. Don’t say you’re sorry. — 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

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

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

Ah,’ said a voice from the doorway, ‘having your annual ‘everyone thinks Will is a lunatic’ meeting, are you? ‘It’s biannual,’ said Jem. ‘And no, this is not that meeting. — Cassandra Clare

Sherlock Holmes and Jem Finch would agree. — Harper Lee

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

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

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

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

The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience. — Harper Lee

We were once getting married. And I have loved you all this time–a century and a half.–Jem — Cassandra Clare

Will has always been the brighter burning star, the one to catch attention–but Jem is a steady flame, unwavering and honest. He could make you happy. — Cassandra Clare

It ain’t time to worry yet. I’ll let you know when. — Harper Lee

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived. — Harper Lee

Jem also told me that if I breathed a word to Atticus, if in any way I let Atticus know I knew, Jem would personally never speak to me again. — Harper Lee

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

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. — Harper Lee

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

There are just some kind of men…who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one. — Harper Lee

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

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

I think I’ll be a clown when I get grown…. There ain’t one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I’m gonna join the circus and laugh my head off. — Harper Lee

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

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

I know you feel inhuman, and as if you are set apart, away from life and love, but… I promise you, the right man won’t care. — Cassandra Clare

When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles ’em. — Harper Lee

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

Turtles don’t feel, stupid,’ said Jem. ‘Were you ever a turtle, huh? — Harper Lee

The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box. — Harper Lee

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

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

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

Of course Jem antagonized me sometimes until I could kill him, but when it came down to it he was all I had. — Harper Lee

I do not believe you can threaten people into goodness. — Jem Carstairs

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