Cassandra Clare: Trending quotes

“As dull as Nate Gray is," Will said, "his head is not actually filled with gears, Henry. He's a human.”

Source: City of Ashes

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“Careful, boy,” rumbled Gwyn. “You have your Laws and we have ours. The difference is only that we do not pretend ours are not cruel.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

“I don't want to be a man. 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.”

“Come on," he said.
"Let's get back to Alec before he decides Isabelle and Simon are having sex off in the caves and starts freaking out.”

Jace to Clary, pg. 45
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“I love you. And I don't want to lose you.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“Then Alec had smiled at one of Magnus’s jokes, and the smile had lit a lamp in his solemn face, making his blue eyes brilliant, and briefly taking Magnus’s breath away”

“I have a suggestion," said Valentine to Luke, in a surprisingly even tone.
"Let me guess," said Luke. "It's 'Don't kill me,' isn't it?”

Source: What to Buy the Shadowhunter Who Has Everything

“I told you to bring me to Alec! Backstabbing Judas.”

“It really was getting difficult to be wonderful.”

Source: City of Bones

“That's right," he said. "I created a a bunch of Forsaken Warriors, had them attack the Institute and kill Madeleine and nearly kill the rest of us, just so that I could keep Clary from at home. And lo and behold, my diabolical plan is working.”

Source: The Runaway Queen

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“It would be one thing if I had been cursed so that everyone I loved would die," said Will. "I could keep myself from loving. To keep others from caring for me--it is an odd, exhausting procedure.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“I’ve lived a long time,” Magnus said. “So many years, and no, it doesn’t feel like enough. I won’t lie and say it does. I want to live on—partly because of you, Alec. I have never wanted to live so much as I have these past few months, with you.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“He raised an eyebrow, which made Clary instantly jealous. She’d always wanted to be able to do that.
…
Magnus raised an eyebrow. Damn, Clary thought, another one.”

“Not Magnus himself, who was more of a cross between a panther and a demented elf.”

Source: City of Bones

“Simon kept pace beside Clary for a few moments without speaking before he said, “So what did I miss? Naked dancing ladies?”
Clary thought of the male faerie‘s torn-open ribs and shuddered. “Nothing that pleasant.”

Source: City of Ashes

“I want my people to be protected, strong, and not to be driven into corners until they either become killers or are killed!”

Source: City of Ashes

“Judging people together was an essential part of best friendship”

Source: Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale

“He looked like the sort of boy who'd come over to your house to pick you up for a date and be polite to your parents and nice to your pets. Jace, on the other hand, looked like the sort of boy who'd come over to your house and burn it down for kicks.”

Source: Born to Endless Night

“One more thing," Jace said. "Is there a holy place around here?"
“Good idea. If you're going to take on a lair of vampires by yourself, you'd better pray first.”

Source: City of Bones