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Cassandra Clare

Birthdate: 27. July 1973

Judith Lewis , better known by her pen name Cassandra Clare, is an American author of young adult fiction, best known for her bestselling series The Mortal Instruments. Wikipedia

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Works

City of Bones

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City of Heavenly Fire

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City of Ashes

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Clockwork Angel

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Clockwork Prince

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City of Glass

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Clockwork Princess

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The City of Lost Souls

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City of Fallen Angels

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The Mortal Instruments

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Lady Midnight

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Lord of Shadows

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The Bane Chronicles

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The Shadowhunter's Codex

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The Iron Trial

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The Infernal Devices

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Quotes Cassandra Clare

„He's not here."
"Not here like he just popped around the corner to the bodega for a six-pack of Diet Coke and a box of Krispy Kremes, or not here like…“

— Cassandra Clare, book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Box

„I loved you from the moment I read them. I love you still.“

— Cassandra Clare, book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Love, Reading

„Fire wants to burn
Water wants to flow
Air wants to rise
Earth wants to bind
Chaos wants to devour
Cal wants to live“

— Cassandra Clare, book The Iron Trial

Source: The Iron Trial

Water

„And now I need you to do for me what I cannot do for myself. For you to be my eyes when I do not have them. For you to be my hands when I cannot use my own. For you to be my heart when mine is done beating.“

— Cassandra Clare, book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Heart

„Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.“

— Cassandra Clare, book City of Bones

Variant: I was laughing at you because declarations of love amuse me, especially when unrequited.
Source: City of Bones

Love

„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.“

— Cassandra Clare, book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Life, God, Lie

„To love something is to destroy it forever.“

— Cassandra Clare, book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Love

„We who are immortal, we are chained to this life by a chain of gold, and we dare not sever it for fear of what lies beyond the drop.“

— Cassandra Clare, book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Life, Fear

„Must I go bound while you go free
Must I love a manwho doesn't love me
Must I be born with so little art
As to love a man who'll break my Heart“

— Cassandra Clare, book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Love, Art, Heart

„Staring at him the
way she might stare at a beloved place she
was not sure she would ever see again, trying
to commit the details to memory, to paint
them on the backs of her eyelids that she
might see it when she shut her eyes to sleep.“

— Cassandra Clare, book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Way, Sleep, Memory, Painting

„Don't make it sound like that. Like some ordinary sort of grief. It's not like that. They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite. Over. This is a fresh wound every day.“

— Cassandra Clare, book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Time

„In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn't matter how hard it was to make it. It matters that you did.“

— Cassandra Clare, book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

„I can stand.”
“It looks to me like you‘re using a wall to prop you up. that’s not my definition of ‘standing.’”
“Its leaning,” Jace told him. “Leaning comes right before standing.“

— Cassandra Clare, book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

„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, book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Home, Thinking

„He bent to put his cheek against hers. His breath against her ear made her shudder with each deliberately spoken word. "I have wanted to do this," he said, "every moment of every hour of every day that I have been with you since the day I met you.“

— Cassandra Clare, book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

„Your Bracelet," she said. "Acheronta movebo.' It doesn't mean 'Thus always to tyrants.' That's 'sic semper tyrannis.' This is from Virgil. 'Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo.' If I cannot move Heaven, I will raise Hell.“

— Cassandra Clare

Hell

„One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.“

— Cassandra Clare, book Clockwork Angel

Source: The Infernal Devices, Clockwork Angel (2010), p. 87

Books, Change

„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, book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Understanding, Change, Help

„It means 'Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of our Enemies Since 1234'.“

— Cassandra Clare, book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

„I care about Alec," Jace said, fixing Magnus with an unswerving gaze. "I care about him more than I care about myself.“

— Cassandra Clare, book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

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