Cassandra Clare: Trending quotes (page 41)

“I screwed her over. I didn't want to see her screwed over by someone else.”

“Hope is not an illusion.”

“Jace shook his head. 'I don't care if I did just set myself on fire,' he said. 'I'm not hugging you.'
Simon sighed and dropped his arms. 'Your loss,' he said. 'If you'd gone in, I would've let you, but honestly it would have been a pity hug.”

“To lose an arm or a leg would be painful, but to lose the central truth of your life felt—fatal.”

“Mr. Lightwood," she said, raising herself up on her elbows. "Are thoseunder your bed?”

“I'm pure at heart. It repels the dirt.”

“He was the one she was doing all this for, but sometimes she missed him so much it felt like she swallowed broken glass.”

“Can I touch your mango?”

“I know there are monsters on this earth,' said Tessa. 'You cannot tell me otherwise. I have seen them.”

“Those of us who do not live forever do not like change perhaps as much as those of you who do.”

“When I first arrived in London, I so quickly tired of being surrounded by so many people that it was only with great difficulty that I refrained from seizing the next unfortunate who crossed my path and committing violent acts upon their person.”

“Our own Sleeping Beauty. Who finally kissed you awake?”

“When I think of you, and you are not there, I see you in my mind's eye always with a book in your hand.”

“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”

“Downworld?" Tessa echoed, puzzled. "Is that a place in London?"

"Never mind that," said Will. "I'm boasting of my investigative skills, and I would prefer to do it without interruption.”

“I think of myself as a freewheeling bisexual,' - Magnus Bane”

“I’m—sorry about being a lousy date,” Alec muttered.

“What are you talking about?” Magnus asked. “You’re a fantastic date. You’ve only been here ten minutes, and I already got half of your clothes off.”

“Well, you know, your mom gets like this sometimes," Simon said. "Like when she breathes in or out.”

“She had wondered, when he’d looked into her eyes and said that he’d had to learn to make do without mirrors in the Wild Hunt, whose eyes he’d been looking into for all those years. Who’d been his mirror.
Now she knew.”