Cassandra Clare Quotes page 19

“They all yelled in excitement. Tamara yelled because she was happy. Aaron yelled because he liked it when other people were happy, and Call yelled because he was sure they were going to die.”

Source: Clockwork Angel

Cassandra Clare book The Iron Trial

Source: The Iron Trial

“The only time people turned to watch her go by was when she hurtled past them as she fell.”

“She was afraid you'd freak out? Start seeing demons in the White House?”

Source: City of Bones

“Tell me,” Isabelle said.“Who it was. That my father had the affair with.”

Jace to Clary, pg. 311
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

“Because', she said, 'your problems are not real problems. You're dating two beautiful girls at once. Think about it. That's like… having rock-star problems.'
'Having rock-star problems may be the closest I ever get to being an actual rock star.”

Source: City of Lost Souls

“We are not our parents, Gabriel. We do not have to carry the burden of their choices or their sins.”

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“We shall throw him out onto the streets, I promise you he'll be gone by morning.
Oh-no, you can't mean that-
Of course I don't. But you felt better for a moment there, didn't you?”

Source: Clockwork Princess

“Go in peace, James Carstairs.”

Source: Clockwork Angel

“But God knows, I don't want anyone but you. I don't even want to want anyone but you.”

Source: Clockwork Princess

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“Like all Herondales, his ability to love without measure, without end, was both his great gift and his great curse.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: The Lost Herondale

“Demon hunting and fashion," Clary said. "I never would have thought they went together.”

“Its three in the morning,' she noted with dismay. 'Do you think Simon’s all right?'
'I think he‘s weird, actually,' said Jace. 'Though that has little to do with time.”

Source: City of Bones

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“Why not? Do you like him?” Magnus’s eyes gleamed. “He seems to like you. I saw him going for your hand out there like a squirrel diving for a peanut.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Variant: Magnus's eyes gleamed. "He seems to like you. I saw him going for your hand out there like a squirrel diving for a peanut.
Source: City of Glass

“My will and my desire were turned by love, the love that moves the sun and the other stars.”

“I believe I am in Hell, therefore I am”

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“He grabbed for the coatrack that stood by the door, ripped the coats off it, and flung the door wide, the rack held above his head like a javelin.
On the other side of the door was Jace. He blinked. "Is that a coatrack?”

“Alec looked merely irritated by this comment. "The only way you could raise enough money to hire Magnus by selling lemonade is if you put meth in it.”

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“Concerned about my safety, are you?
-William Herondale.”

Source: City of Lost Souls

“We’re meant to protect each other, but not from everything. Not from
the truth. That’s what it means to love someone but let them be themselves.
-Jace Wayland”

Source: Clockwork Angel

“Why do you do these things to yourself? Not just what you did to the window, but the way you talked to Clary. What are you punishing yourself for? You can't help how you feel.”

Source: City of Lost Souls

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“People who know and love the same books as you, have the road map to your soul.”

Cassandra Clare

“I read once that explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog," Mark said. "You find out how it works, but the frog dies in the process.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

“Tessa was laying on her side, her brown hair spread over the pillow, watching Will, whose face was bent over the pages, with a look of tenderness in her eyes, a tenderness mirrored in the softness of Will's voice as he read.”

“He said there are thousands of Shadowhunters, but great love comes once in a lifetime if one is lucky, and one would be a fool to let it go.”

Source: Clockwork Princess

“In all the world, you are what I love the most.”

Source: Clockwork Angel

“At least Kyle wasn't home. That would be a hard one to explain to his new roomate. Nobody liked a guy who kept blood in the fridge.”

Source: Clockwork Princess

“James had given his heart to this
girl, Magnus thought, and Magnus knew
well enough from Edmund and Will what
it meant when a Herondale gave his heart
away. It was not a gift that could be
returned.”

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Cassandra Clare

Source: The Midnight Heir

“Jace raised his eyebrows. “Walk of shame, boys?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“If I had not been a Shadowhunter, I would have had a future on the stage. I have no doubt I would have been greeted with acclaim.”

“You have ruthlessness in your bones and ice in your heart, Clarissa. Don't tell me any differently.”

Variant: I am dramatic," said Will. "If i had not been a Shadowhunter, i would have had a future on the stage.
Source: Clockwork Princess

“Hi, I'm one of the knife-carrying hooligans you met last night in Pandemonium? I'm afraid I made a bad impression and was hoping you'd give me a chance to make it up to- "
"SIMON!”

Source: City of Lost Souls

“Well, I don't want you to die," Tessa said. "I don't know why I feel it so strongly -- I've just met you -- but I don't want you to die."

"And I trust you," he said. "I don't know why -- I've just met you -- but I do.”

Clary held the phone away from her ear as he cracked up laughing. "That is so not funny!"
Simon and Clary, pg. 19
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

“Unless there was a reason for me to stay.”

Source: Clockwork Angel

“We are one now, little brother, you and I," Sebastian said. "We are one.”

Source: Clockwork Angel