Cassandra Clare Quotes page 10

“I think,” Jace said, “that you don’t want to tell your secrets, so you decided to break up with Alec because…”

Source: City of Lost Souls

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“How strange to have the power to literally transform yourself into other people, and yet be so unable to put yourself in their place.”

“Magnus's eyes went back to Alec. They were gold-green, as unreadable as the eyes of the cat he held on his lap. "Not my favorite topic, Smedley."
"Simon", said Simon. "If I'm going to die for you all, the least you could do is remember my name.”

Source: Clockwork Angel

“The demon bared its greenish fangs. "This is my true form. An ugly surprise for you, I suppose."
"I daresay it's an improvement," said Will. "You weren't much to look at before, and at least the horns are dramatic.”

Source: City of Lost Souls

“When our hearts break, they break into shards that cannot be easily fit back together.”

Source: Clockwork Angel

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“Jem touched the parabatai rune on his shoulder, through the thin material of his nightshirt. "I am not alone," he said. "Wherever we are, we are as one.”

“I can keep a perfectly good eye on Simon, thank you. He's my neophyte Downworlder to mock and boss around, not yours.”

Source: Clockwork Princess

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“He bumped into a pay phone and said, 'Excuse me, miss,' on our way in," said Julian.

"It's polite to apologize," said Mark with the same small voice.

"Not to inanimate objects.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

“Softly, Magnus said, "Aku cinta kamu."
"What does that mean?"
Magnus disentangled himself from Alec's grip. "It means I love you. Not that that changes anything.”

“It's all very romantic," Gabriel said, and then frowned. "Or it would be, if my brother could get a word out without sounding like a choking frog. I fear he will not go down in history as one of the world's greatest wooers of women.”

Source: City of Lost Souls

“Simon,” said a voice at his shoulder, and he turned to see Izzy, her face a pale smudge between dark hair and dark cloak, looking at him, her expression half-angry, half-sad. “I guess this is the part where we say goodbye?”

Source: Clockwork Princess

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Variant: Simon," said a voice at his shoulder, and he turned to see Izzy, her face a pale smudge between dark hair and dark cloak, looking at him, her expression half-angry, half-sad. "I guess this is the part where we say goodbye?
Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“I take your hand, brother, so that you may go in peace.”

“But unlike you," said Jace, "there is nothing of hell in us."
"You are mortal; you age; you die," the Queen said dismissively. "If that is not hell, pray tell me, what is?”

Source: Clockwork Princess

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“My heart tells me this is the best and greatest feeling I have ever had. But my mind knows the difference between wanting what you can’t have and wanting what you shouldn’t want. And I shouldn’t want you.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“I'm always so glad I have no idea what you're vacantly chatting about," said Jace. It fills me with a sense of peace and well-being.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“"Oh-Simon!"
"No, I'm Jace," said Jace patiently. "Simon is the weaselly little one with the bad haircut and dismal fashion sense."”

“I hate it when you answer a question with a question."
"No you don't, you think it's charming.”

Clary and Jace, pg. 170
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

“Camille brushed by Jem, hardly looking at him, and Will followed, pausing only long enough to mutter "She doesn't smell like anything" to Jem under his breath.
Jem looked alarmed. "You've beenher?”

Source: City of Bones

“Sweet pea?'" Alec said.
"I was just trying it out."
Alec shook his head. "No."
Magnus shrugged. "I'll keep at it.”

Source: Clockwork Angel

“As for this," Magnus said sliding the stele into Jace's jeans pocket, "keep it in your pants, Shadowhunter." - 219”

Source: City of Lost Souls

“What?" Simon looked alarmed. "I'm not really sleeping with your mom, you know. I was just trying to get your attention. Not that your mom isn't a very attractive woman, for her age.”

Source: City of Bones

“You might want to get up," he said. "Everyone will be here quite soon to rescue you, and you may prefer to have clothes on when they arrive." He shrugged. "I would, at any rate, but then, I am well known to be remarkably shy.”

Simon, pg. 7
Variant: Simon!" Clary shouted, and seized his arm.
"What?" Simon looked alarmed.
"I'm not really sleeping with your mom, you know. I was just trying to get your attention. Not that your mom isn't a very attractive woman, for her age.
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

“All I know is that I love you. And for the first time, that's good enough.”

Source: Clockwork Princess

“When two souls are as one, they stay together on the Wheel. I was born into this world to love you, and I will love you in the next life, and the one after that." ~Jem Carstairs”

Source: City of Lost Souls

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“You behave as if everything is funny to you, but you never laugh. Sometimes you smile when you think no one is paying attention.”