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Judith Lewis , better known by her pen name Cassandra Clare, is an American author of young adult fiction, best known for her bestselling series The Mortal Instruments. Wikipedia  

✵ 27. July 1973
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Cassandra Clare Quotes

“His beauty did not blaze like Will's did in fierce colors and repressed fire, but it had its own muted perfection, the loveliness of snow falling against a silver gray sky.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“I've never asked, but I'm sure he has a fairly stringent policy about random teenagers lurking in his shrubbery.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Simon to Clary, pg. 114
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

“Magnus glared at him out of gold-green eyes. “If I wanted to lie on a couch and
complain to someone about my parents, I’d hire a psychiatrist.”
“Ah,” said Jace. “But my services are free.”
“I heard that about you.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“You'd think the Angel would have been foresighted enough to give us a birth-control rune, but no dice.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“Inanimate objects are harmless indeed, Mr. Mortmain. But one cannot always say the same of the men who use them.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: The Infernal Devices, Clockwork Angel (2010), p. 150, spoken by Henry

“Being Jem, Tessa reflected, must be a great deal like being the owner of a thouroughbred dog that liked to bite your guests. You had to have a hand on his collar constantly.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“I'm not unhappy," he said. "Only people with no purpose are unhappy. I've got a purpose.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“Anyway that other thing we almost did in Paris-that's probably off the table for a while. Unless you want that whole baby-I'm-on-fire-when-we kiss thing to become freakishly literal”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“Caliph Vathek and his dark horde
Are bound for Hell, you won’t be bored!
Your faith in me will be restored—
Unless this token you find untoward
And my poor gift you have ignored.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“You'll fix me, because we're parabatai. We're forever.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

“Don't you think 'Mark is kind of a weird name for a Shadowhunter?" Julian was saying as Emma approached. "I mean, if you really think about it. It's confusing. 'Put a Mark on me, Mark.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“"

"What does it mean?"

"It means that you are beautiful.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“I never said that. I just didn't correct you when you were, you know, wrong. Anyway, I just saved you from being burned to death, so I figure you're not allowed to be mad." -Jace”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“Everything changes in my life, and the world stays the same.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“The funny thing about mundies is how obsessed with magic they are for a bunch of people who don't even know what the word means.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“I have heard sometimes that men who lose an arm of a leg still feel that pain in those limbs, though they are gone,' said Will. 'It is like that sometimes. I can feel Jem with me, though he is gone, and it is like I am missing a part of myself.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“Who's there?' he called, then frowned. 'Of course,' he added, addressing the darkness all around, 'even I, as a Shadowhunter, have seen enough movies to know that anyone who yells 'Who's there?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

is going to be instantly killed.'"
Jace Herondale, pg. 442
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Heavenly Fire (2014)

“My eyes are usually described as golden… and luminous.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Variant: Are you the one with the blue eyes?"
"Actually, my eyes are usually described as golden... and luminous.
Source: City of Bones

“That sounds almost practiced, James Carstairs. How many girls have you made swoon with that observation?"
"There is only one girl I care to make swoon," he said. "The question is, does she?"
She smiled at him. "She does.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“So you are dying for love, then," Will said finally, his voice sounding constricted to his own ears.
'Dying a little faster for love. And there are worse things to die for.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“Every heart has its own melody," he said. "You know mine.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Variant: Every heart has its own melody.
Source: Clockwork Princess

“Isabelle chewed thoughtfully on her straw. 'That new lead singer they have is hot. Is he single? I'd like to ridearound town like a bad, bad pony”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“Because viewing my naked chest has caused many women to seriously injure themselves stampeding to get to me.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“Everyone is afraid of something. We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people because we love them. We fear dying because we value being alive. Don't wish you didn't fear anything. All that would mean is that you didn't feel anything.”

Cassandra Clare book Lord of Shadows

Variant: We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people because we love them. We fear dying because we value being alive. Don’t wish you didn’t fear anything. All that would mean is that you didn’t feel anything.
Source: Lord of Shadows

“Not everyone wants you all the time, Jace," he said.
"Don't be ridiculous.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“Has anyone seen Church? I think Zachariah just stole our cat. I swear I saw him putting Church in the backseat of a car.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Isabelle Lightwood, pg. 715
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Heavenly Fire (2014)

“Oh, come on," Clary said. "You're a vampire, not Spider-Man.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“Love didn't make you weak, it made you stronger.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“You're my sister," he said finally. "My sister, my blood, my family. I should want to protect you"- he laughed soundlessly and without any humor- "to protect you from the sort of boys who want to do with you exactly what I want to do.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“No, i mean enterprising." said Will. "When I mean morally deficient, I say, `Now, that is something i would have done´”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“Their grandchildren had reminded Will of the song about demon pox he had taught them- when they were much too young, Tessa had always thought- and that they had all memorized. They sang it all together and out of tune, scandalizing Sophie.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“Everything that happens to you matters to me.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“I love you; I love you and I don’t care that you’re my sister; don’t be with him, don’t want him, don’t go with him. Be with me. Want me. Stay with me.
I don’t know how to be without you.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“Magnus raised his head and looked up and over at Alec; it was a look that made Clary flush and glance away. There was so much love in it, mixed with exasperation and pride and despair. It was an unguarded look, and it felt wrong to see it.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“A sort of good-bye without saying good-bye," he said. "It is a reference to a passage in the Bible. 'And Mizpah, for he said, the Lord watch between me and thee when we are absent one from another.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“He understands why people hold hands: he’d always thought it was about possessiveness, saying. But it’s about maintaining contact. It is about speaking without words. It is aboutand.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“Was that Will?" she said finally.
Henry arched one ginger eyebrow. "Perhaps he's been kidnapped and replaced by an automaton," he suggested. "It seems possible…"
For once Charlotte could only find herself in agreement.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“This one incident I will not allow you to shrug off!"
"I wasn't planning to," Jace said. "I can't shrug anything off. My shoulder's dislocated."
-Hodge & Jace, pg.296-”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“Weapons, when they break and are mended, can be stronger at the mended places. Perhaps hearts are the same.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Jace Herondale, to Zachariah, pg. 236
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Heavenly Fire (2014)

“He remembered Tessa telling him that Hell was cold, and he fought back the odd urge to smile at the memory. They'd been running for their lives, she ought to have been terrified, and there she had been, telling him about thein precise American tones.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“The girl behind the scrawled letters. I loved you from the moment I read them. I love you still.” - Will Herondale”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“You serve a greater cause. Your life is not yours to throw away (Magnus Bane)”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“You know what the worst thing I can imagine is? Simon had said. Not trusting someone I love.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“If there was one thing she was learning from all this, it was how easy it was to lose everything you had always thought you'd have forever.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones