Variant: If I might make a suggestion,” said Will. “About twenty paces behind us, in the Council room, is Benedict. If you’d like to go back in there and try kicking him, I recommend aiming upward and a bit to the left—
Source: Clockwork Prince

“You are James Herondale, said Uncle Jem. As you always were. Part your mother, part your father, part yourself. I would not change any part of you if I could.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: Nothing but Shadows

“There's always the dinner rolls," said Will, pointing to a covered basket. "Though I warn you, they're as hard as stones. You could use them to kill black beetles, if any beetles bother you in the middle of the night.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“My favorite jacket is an emergency item. Much like myself, it is both snuggly and fashionable.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“To love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be destroyed.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Jace to Clary, pg. 206
Variant: to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

“Magnus knelt first. Clary would never have guessed that. Magnus was so proud, but then it was a pride that transcended the emptiness of gestures. She doubted it would shame him to kneel when it meant nothing to him.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“She smiled smugly. “We came to an agreement, the duck and I.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“So, what are you?"
"What I am is someone who doesn't want you to jump out of the window. The rest are details.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: The Rise of the Hotel Dumort

“I will still be in some part the Jem you knew, and I will see you with the eyes of my heart.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“It's fascinating. You know all these words, and they’re all English, but when you string them together into sentences, they just don’t make any sense.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Variant: It’s fascinating. You know all these words, and they’re all English, but when you string them together into sentences, they just don’t make any sense.
Source: City of Fallen Angels

“To them, as to Magnus, time was like rain, glittering as it fell, changing the world, but something that could also be taken for granted.”

Cassandra Clare The Bane Chronicles

Source: The Bane Chronicles

“Life could not be entirely devoted to debauchery and monkeys. Magnus had to finance all the drinking somehow.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: What Really Happened in Peru

“Sometimes she thought the only things she had faith in were revenge and Julian.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

“Please tell me you did not bring me out here so you could tell me a very boring story about your sister.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels