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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

“You may choose your friends, but not your unlikely saviors,” Magnus said cheerfully.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“Ouch,” Jace said in her ear, his tone indignant. “You elbowed me.”
“Well, you landed on me.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“Enormous? Did you just call me FAT? I am not fat. - Jace”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

City of Ashes
Variant: Enormous? Did you just call me fat?

“Magnus, you were trying to flirt with your own plate."

"I'm a very open-minded sort of fellow!”

Cassandra Clare The Bane Chronicles

Source: The Bane Chronicles

“They're still looking at him…. At Will…"
"Of course they are…. Look at him. The face of a bad angel and eyes like the night sky in Hell.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“Goodness, my nose is enormous,' she exclaimed. 'Why didn't anyone tell me?”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“There are some kinds of wounds you can get, internal injuries. You don't know what's wrong with you, but you're bleeding to death slowly inside.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“That thing that looks like me but isn't? He'll burn down the world if Sebastian wants him to, and laugh while he's doing it. That's what you're saving, Clary.. Don't you understand? I'd rather be dead”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“You can't forget the things you did in the past, or you'll never learn from them.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“Defining relationships over here? I see that even as the world plunges into darkness and peril, you two stand around discussing your love lives. Teenagers.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Magnus Bane, to Clary Fray and Simon Lewis, pg. 61
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Heavenly Fire (2014)

“Tessa, surprising herself, let out a gasp of laughter. Will looked at her, his mouth just beginning to quirk up in a grin. "I must be more amusing than I thought. Which would make me very amusing indeed.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“Nobody calls me 'blondie' and keeps their kneecaps.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

“You're all he ever wants.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“He strode to the wall and tore aside one of the velvet hangings. “You want to tell me what this is?” he demanded.
“It’s a door, Jace,” said Clary.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“Hate is nothing when weighed against survival. (Valentine)”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“"There might simply be nothing going on that might activate it. Perhaps there isn't anything here that Alec is afraid of."
Magnus glanced at Alec and raised his eyebrows. "Boo."”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Luke and Magnus, pg. 285
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)

“Well, I'd certainly hate to interrupt your pleasant night stroll with my sudden death.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Clary to Jace, pg. 216
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

“Simon: 'You know men. We have delicate egos.'
Clary: 'I wouldn't describe Jace's ego as delicate.'
Simon: 'No, Jace's is sort of the antiaircraft artillery tank of male egos.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“I have come to understand something about novels," Tessa said.
"And what is that?"
"They are not true.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“He had electric blue hair that had stuck around his head like tendrils of a startled octopus.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“What are you doing here anyway?"
"'Here' as in your bedroom or 'here' as in the great spiritual question of our purpose here on this planet?"
-Clary & Jace, pg.306-”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“Anger, Tessa thought, was satisfying in its own way, when you gave in to it. There was something gratifying about shouting in a blind rage until your words ran out.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“If love is great, then it is worth fighting for.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“I would think that counted as offering resistance," Will said. "Eating one's son-in-law, that is. Though I suppose everyone has their family altercations.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“I need Jace,” said Sebastian. “But in his heart, he’s not like me. Butare.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“There was something about Jace, though, that made her want to push him, crack that shell of cynicism and make him admit her believed something, felt something, cared about anythinng at all.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“I love you, Tessa, and I have loved you, almost since the moment I met you.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“He's probably never met a six-foot-tall hot elf-woman in a fur bikini, either”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Clary to Simon, pg. 118
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

“I do not believe you can threaten people into goodness.” - Jem Carstairs”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Variant: I do not believe you can threaten people into goodness.
Source: Clockwork Angel

“Hotter than me? --Jace”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“Come in. And try not to murder any of my guests.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“I'll take Shadowhunter, then. Because from what I've experienced of vampires, you mostly suck. No pun intended.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Variant: From what I experienced from vampires, you mostly suck. No pun intended.
Source: City of Lost Souls

“We’ve been here before, haven’t we? Last time you were starving, I gave you my blood. It was a little homoerotic, maybe, but I’m secure in my sexuality.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Jace Herondale and Simon Lewis, pg. 509
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Heavenly Fire (2014)
Context: "Why didn't you say something?"
"Because, it's not like there's animals I can feed on here."
"There's us."
"I don't want to feed on my friends' blood."
"Why not? We've been here before, haven't we? Last time you were starving, I gave you my blood. It was a little homoerotic, maybe, but I'm secure in my sexuality."

“"We work through this together, remember? No shutting me out. No epic sulks."
"I was figuring I could sulk for Idris in the next Olympics."
"You and Alec could go for pair sulking. You'd get the gold."”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Clary Fray and Jace Herondale, pg. 118
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Heavenly Fire (2014)

“Jace suggested that the cast of "Gilligan's Island" could go do something anatomically unlikely with themselves.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Variant: Jace said that the cast of Gilligan's Island could do something anatomically unlikely with themselves.
Source: City of Ashes

“Shotgun!" announced Clary as Jace came back around the side of the van.
Alec grabbed for his bow, strapped across his back. "Where?"
"She means she wants the front seat," said Jace, pushing wet hair out of his eyes.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“Valentine!"
"You mean father. I despise this modern habit of calling one's parents by their names."
"What I want to call you is a hell of a lot more unprintable than your name."
- Clary Fray and Valentine Morgenstern (City of Ashes)”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“Well, not in this case. He reached into the Inquisitor and he…" Clary shuddered. "There was a lot of blood."
"Like a special bonus for you," Jace said to Simon.
Simon ignored this.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“I do not walk like a duck.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“There are ways in which we’re so alike. We’re reckless. We don’t think before we act. We’ll do anything for people we love. And I never thought how scary that was for the people who loved me until I saw”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“"Wait a second."
"I never understand why people say that," Luke said, to no one in particular. "I wasn't going anywhere."”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Clary and Luke, pg. 407
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

“I dreamed of a green place once,” he whispered. “A manor house and a little girl with red hair, and preparations for a wedding. If there are other worlds, then maybe there is one where I was a good brother and a good son.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“A gentle boy with a gentle soul, but every soul contains its own opposite, and the opposite of gentleness was ruthlessness—the beautiful wreckage of mercy.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

“They landed at Simon's feet. "Take your clothes and go!" Isabelle shouted.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“As long as I can dream, I will dream of you.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“Are you trying to get run over by a cab?"

"Don't be ridiculous. We could never get a cab that easily in this neighborhood.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“The greatest fear of Jonathan is the”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Valentine to Clary, pg. 388
Variant: The greatest fear in Jonathan's life is the love he feels for his sister.
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)

“He's notwarlock.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass