Cassandra Clare Quotes

We ought never have been given the ability to love.

Dudes," He said, "Do not follow other dudes to the bathroom."
Isabelle sighed. "Latent homosexual panic will do you in every time

It's your gift, to see the beauty and the horror in ordinary things. It doesn't make you crazy, just different.

Love could be a last hope and a star to steer by.

I shall charm him with such force that when I am done, he will be left lying limply on the ground, trying to remember his own name.

But as long as I remember what it was like to love you, I always feel like I'm alive.

Take my hands," Alec said. "And take my strength too. Whatever of it you can use to - to keep yourself going.

He touched her as he usually touched his beloved violin, with a soft and urgent grace that left her breathless.

Humans are animals. Pain is their nature.

She had a plan. Even if it was a little insane.

Love didn't make you weak, it made you stronger.

[Magnus] reminded himself of his manners, and bowed. "Charmed," he said. "Or whatever effect would please you best, I'm sure.

My brother always says you have to start somewhere.

To love is to destroy, to destroy is to love. -Jace Herondale

Don't think that way. Just because you can't imagine loving anyone else doesn't mean that you won't.

Sometimes people get taken away from you whether you want it or not. And sometimes that hurts so much, it might be easier to forget.

I have not stopped loving her, nor my parabatai; love does not stop when someone dies.

Every heart has its own melody," he said. "You know mine.

It will bring you light even among the darkest shadows of this world and others

sometimes love isn't enough

Through it all, Isabelle watched Simon,
something unexpected in her gaze. Something almost like . . . pride.

Would you like to meet him? I could summon him up in a trice of you like. Being a warlock, and all.

It is time to let the nightmares go.

The air was not as hazy here as it was over the rest of the city, and the sky overhead had achieved a color that was almost blue.

We came to see Jace. Is he alright?"
"I don't know," Magnus said. "Does he normally just lie on the floor like that without moving?

She had always wanted a brother. And she had one now. Sebastian. It was like always wanting a puppy and being a hellhound instead.

Just the way he said her name undid her, loosened something tight and knotted underneath her rib cage, making her breathless.

So I lied to you last night. I said that I just wanted one night with you. But I want every night with you.

There was beauty in the idea of freedom, but it was an illusion. Every human heart was chained by love.

The Law is hard," said Charlotte, "but it is the Law.

If I cannot reach Heaven, I will raise Hell

As long as everyone's wearing their own pants."
"I see I have come in on a fascinating moment in the conversation.

Judging people together was an essential part of best friendship

I think I'm better than everyone else. An opinion that has been backed up with ample evidence.

I know it's wrong - God, it's all kinds of wrong - but I just want to lie down with you and wake up with you, just once, just once ever in my life.

I do what I want, and damn the consequences.

Alec had his arms around Magnus and was kissing him, full on the mouth. Magnus, who appeared to be in a state of shock, stood frozen.

OR am I the only warlock you know?"
"No ... but you are the only warlock we know who happens to dating a friend of ours.

Usually I'm remarkably good natured. Try me on a day that doesn't end in y.

Alec muttered a retort into his coffee. It rhymed with something that sounded a lot more like ducking glass mole.

She wondered what on earth about liking someone could possibly have him wound up to such a pitch of anxiety. You're not gay, are you?

Cecily sighed. "Don't be so dramatic, Will. Must you always insist that people hate you when they obviously don't?" "I

It wasn't funny for Bill Herondale!" said Magnus. "Oh, damn it. Now you've got me doing it.

Izzy -I don't know why you'd wait for me, but if you do, I promise to make myself worth that wait. Or I'll try. I can promise I am going to try.

He'd learned his lesson a long time ago: Even in the midst of heartbreak, you could still find yourself laughing.

Wherever you are, you're my best friend. You'll always be my best friend.

Because the world isn't divided into the special and the ordinary. Everyone has the potential to be extra ordinary.

I hope you told him you were bitten by a gay spider.

[Magnus] held on to the boy, newborn in grave dirt and blood, and he wished that he had found him dead.

Clary," he said. "You're Clary. You're my best friend.

I am Valentine's son. Jonathan Christopher Morgenstern. You never had any right to that name. You're a ghost. And a pretender.

However, there is something you should have. Something every Shadowhunter should have."
"An obnoxious, arrogant attitude?" Simon said.

There is no god, not a god who would create the things I saw

Words has the power to change us

Don't you hate it? Not ever saying how you really feel?

Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death.

For love is as strong as death.

My hair is naturally blonde... Just for the record. ~ Jace

I wouldn't call that an instrument of music," Ragnor observed sourly. "An instrument of torture, perhaps.

I should have known I'd find you out here, doing your best to turn yourself into an icicle

He has fought many battles with us" (Jace)
By which you mean one battle" muttered Simon. "Two if you count the one I was a rat

We can erase everything that caused you pain with its recollection

Sometimes minor characters are based on people I know, on friends of mine. But I'm not writing a thinly veiled version of my own life.

There was an electric anger in his gaze, and a sort of challenge that made Simon long to hit him with something heavy. Like a pickup truck.

You will come across few creatures that cannot be successfully defeated by the application of sufficient blunt trauma.

What are you?"
"Im a Shadowhunter...

I am, in the end, what you made me.

One must always be careful of books,

Do not make the mistake of believing that he does not love you because he plays at not caring.

Despite my staggering good looks, you actually don't like me that way ... (Jace)

When you love someone, you don't have a choice. Love takes your choices away.
- Clary Fray

And like lambs to a slaughter we shall follow ...

I trust Isabelle," Simon told Beatriz.

I hate it when you answer a question with a question."
"No you don't, you think it's charming.

A book that one has not read yet is always more exciting than a book one has memorized.

Once he asked me what I thought had turned me gay."
"I hope you told him you were bitten by a gay spider," said Simon.

Now that you know the truth, you can never go back.

Clary found herself wondering if the forsaken were edible.

Let the sky rain potatoes," said a musing voice. "Let it thunder to the tune of Greensleeves.

Keeping demons from this world is your mandate, a mandate from heaven. And a mandate from heaven isn't something you can just ignore.

Check you out,' said Magnus. 'My famous boyfriend, inspiration to the masses.

Mark: "A strange evening, forsooth," he said.
Emma: "Don't you forsooth me.

Every life is finite, Will.

He wasn't perfect like Diego, but to Emma, there had never been anyone more beautiful.

So basically you're threatening to turn me into something you can sprinkle on popcorn if I don't do what you say?
(Jace, to Simon)

True love cannot die.

Tessa Herondale Carstairs," he whispered. "You should never worry about borrowing my name when you know that you can have it to keep.

I feel myself dissolving, vanishing into nothingness, for if there is no one in the world who cares for you, do you really exist at all?

Sometimes, when I have to do something I don't want to do, I pretend I'm a character from a book. It's easier to know what they would do.

I'll never pause again, never stand still, till either death hath closed these eyes of mine, or fortune given me measure of revenge.'

I love you," he said.
"I don't say it often enough. I love you.

The Folk love nothing more than mortal beauty.

I told you he'd freak out, she siad. didn't i?
ah, the i told you so, jace said. always a classy move

All knowledge hurts.

Quip fast, die young.

Therefore you can never lose hope-hatikva-because if you keep hope alive, it will keep you alive.

Feel this arm," said Simon. "Rock hard! I don't mean to brag, but it's all bone. All bone.

Look, I asked you here for a reason. Much as I hate to admit it, vampire, we have something in common."
"Totally awesome hair?" Simon suggested.

Are you- Are you in love with me?' His smile was soft and sad. 'So much.

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.