Cassandra Clare Quotes

“The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”

Source: Clockwork Princess

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

Source: City of Bones

“And silver, though few people knew it, was a rarer metal than gold.”

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

Cassandra Clare

Source: The Course of True Love [and First Dates]

“I am catastrophically in love with you.”

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

Source: Clockwork Princess

Cassandra Clare Quotes about love

“Have you fallen in love with the wrong person yet?'
Jace said, "Unfortunately, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remains myself."
…"At least," she said, "you don't have to worry about rejection, Jace Wayland."
"Not necessarily. I turn myself down occasionally, just to keep it interesting.”

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

“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”

Source: City of Bones

“There is no pretending", Jace said with absolute clarity."I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there's a life after that, I'll love you then."
She caught her breath. He had said it-the words there was no going back from.”

Source: Clockwork Prince

“To love something is to destroy it forever.”

Source: City of Glass

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

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

“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.”

Source: Clockwork Prince

Cassandra Clare: Trending quotes

“No' is a magical word," he told her. "Here's how it goes. You say, 'Simon, I have an insane, suicidal plan. Would you like to help me carry it out?' And I say, "Why, no.”

Source: City of Glass

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“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?”

“Is this the part where you start tearing off strips of your shirt to bind my wounds?"
"If you wanted me to rip my clothes off, you should have just asked.”

Source: City of Ashes

Cassandra Clare Quotes

“I've got a stele we can use. Who wants to do me?"
"A regrettable choice of words," muttered Magnus.”

Source: City of Bones

“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.”

Source: City of Ashes

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

Source: City of Glass

“Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.”

Source: City of Bones

“We're not dating," Alec said again.
"Oh?" Magnus said. "So you're just that friendly with everybody, is that it?”

Source: City of Bones

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

Source: City of Ashes

Cassandra Clare book The Iron Trial

Source: The Iron Trial

“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…”

“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.”

Source: City of Glass

“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.”

Source: City of Ashes

“I am Cortana, of the same steel and temper as Joyeuse and Durendal.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”

Source: Clockwork Prince

Cassandra Clare book Lord of Shadows

Source: Lord of Shadows

“I thought it was keep your friends close so you have someone to drive the car when you sneak over to your enemy's house at night and throw up in his mailbox,"
-Jace”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“Sometimes there is not always a cure.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“You have to give everyone ugly motives for everything they do, because ugly motives are all you understand.”

“Some are just born bad, and that's all there is to it.”

Source: City of Ashes

“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.”

Source: Clockwork Prince

“Tiberius Nero Blackthorn. I think his parents may have gone a little overboard. It's like naming someone Magnificent Bastard.”

Source: Clockwork Prince

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

“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.”

“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.”

Source: Clockwork Princess

“"Jesus!" Luke exclaimed. "Actually, it's just me," said Simon. "Although I've been told the resemblance is startling."”

Source: Clockwork Prince

Cassandra Clare The Mortal Instruments

Luke and Simon, pg. 28
The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”

“I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead."
"Well," said Luke, "you're doing a fantastic job.”

Source: Clockwork Angel

“"Well there goes my plan for selling them on eBay," Clary muttered.
"Selling them on what?"
Clary smiled blandly at him. "A mythical place of great magical power."”

Source: City of Ashes

“And I'm suppose to sit by while you date boys and fall in love with someone else, get married…?" His voice tightened. "And meanwhile, I'll die a little bit more every day, watching.”

Clary and Jace, pg. 98
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

“Well, I’m not kissing the mundane," said Jace. "I’d rather stay down here and rot."
"Forever?" said Simon. "Forever’s an awfully long time."
Jace raised his eyebrows. "I knew it," he said. "You want to kiss me, don’t you?”

Source: City of Glass

“I am a man" he told her, "and men do not consume pink beverages. Get thee gone woman, and bring me something brown.”

Source: City of Ashes

“Not everything is about you," Clary said furiously.
"Possibly," Jace said, "but you do have to admit that the majority of things are.”

Isabelle and Jace, pg. 534
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Glass (2009)
Context: "I think it's strawberry juice," Isabelle said. "Anyway, it's yummy. Jace?" She offered him the glass.
"I am a man," he told her, "and men do not consume pink beverages. Get thee gone, woman, and bring me something brown."
"Brown?" Isabelle made a face.
"Brown is a manly color."

“Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”

Variant: Not everything, Jace, is," Clary said furiously.

"Possibly," Jace said, "but you have to admit that the majority of things are.
Source: City of Glass

“Is this the part where you say if I hurt her, you'll kill me?"
"No" Simon said, "If you hurt Clary she's quite capable of killing you herself. Possibly with a variety of weapons.”

Source: Clockwork Princess

“You said you were going for a walk!? What kind of walk takes six hours?"
"A long one?”

Source: City of Glass

“You could have had anything else in the world, and you asked for me."
She smiled up at him. Filthy as he was, covered in blood and dirt, he was the most beautiful thing she'd ever seen.
"But I don't want anything else in the world.”

Source: City of Glass

“That does it," said Jace. "I'm going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year."
"Why?" Isabelle said.
"So you can look up 'fun.' I'm not sure you know what it means.”

Source: City of Glass

“Remember when you tried to convince me to feed a poultry pie to the mallards in the park to see if you could breed a race of cannibal ducks?"

"They ate it too," Will reminisced. "Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck.”

Jace and Isabelle, pg. 155
Variant: "That does it, I'm going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year."
"Why?"
"So you can look up 'fun.' I'm not sure you know what it means."
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)

“I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass.”

Source: Clockwork Angel

“Will looked horrified. "What kind of monster could possibly hate chocolate?”

Simon to Clary, pg. 340
The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)
Variant: The nod means, 'I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass.
Source: City of Ashes

“One of the Silent Brothers is here to see you. Hodge sent me to wake you up. Actually he offered to wake you himself, but since it's 5 a. m., I figured you'd be less cranky if you had something nice to look at."
"Meaning you?"
"What else?”

Source: Clockwork Angel

“Can I help you with something?"
Clary turned instant traitor against her gender. "Those girls on the other side of the car are staring at you."
Jace assumed an air of mellow gratification. "Of course they are," he said, "I am stunningly attractive.”

Source: City of Bones

“Investigation?" Isabelle laughed. "Now we're detectives? Maybe we should all have code names."
"Good idea," said Jace. "I shall be Baron Hotschaft Von Hugenstein.”

Source: City of Bones