Cassandra Clare Quotes page 20

“If you knew how to cook, maybe Ieat.”

Variant: Henry," said Charlotte, who seemed to have recovered from her shock, "if you set yourself on fire deliberately, I will institute divorce proceedings. Now sit down and eat your supper. And say hello to our guest.
Source: Clockwork Angel

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“You love each other – anyone can see that, looking at you – that kind of love that can burn down the world or raise it up in glory.”

“I need a bodyguard."
Simon eyed him. "Have you been watching The Bodyguard? Because I am not going to fall in love with you and carry you around in my burly arms.”

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“I knew you were crazy, but I didn't realize that you were out of your goddamned mind!!”

Source: City of Lost Souls

“For as is often the happenstance with that which is precious and lost, when you find him again, he may well not be quite as you left him.”

Source: City of Lost Souls

“Were you thinking about eating me?”

Source: City of Lost Souls

“Jordan slammed the coatrack down on the ground and sighed. "if you were a vampire, this would have been a lot more useful."

"yes," said jace. "or, you know, just someone with a lot of coats.”

Source: Clockwork Angel

“Mortality, behold, and fear,
What a change of flesh is here!
Think how many royal bones
Sleep within this heap of stones”

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“Tessa is gone, and every moment she is gone is a knife ripping me apart from the inside.”

Source: Clockwork Prince

Cassandra Clare

Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Princess

“Pain made you strong. Loss made you powerful.”

“There’s more to honesty than … than an arrangement of words. They say faeries can’t lie, but you lie in your intentions, your attitude, your demeanor”

Source: City of Lost Souls

“Well, what? Sophie-"
"I hit her on the head with a mirror," Sophie said hopelessly. "One of those silver-backed ones, so it was quite heavy. She went down just like a stone, miss. So I… I tied her to the bed and I came looking for you.”

Source: City of Lost Souls

“Keep this and perhaps remember me."
Kieran's hands tightened on the arrowhead, his knuckles whitening. "The stars will go out before I forget you, Mark Blackthorn.”

Source: Clockwork Prince

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

“That though he is weak, he can still burn.”

“Are you going to wolf out and eat me now?"
"Certainly not, you'd be stringy and hard to digest."
"But kosher."
"I'll be sure to point any Jewish lycanthropes in your direction.”

Source: Clockwork Angel

“The way Magnus’ breath had sounded, rattling in his chest, before he’d said his father’s name.”

Source: City of Ashes

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“The Queen gave him a look: special and secretive and shared between the two of them. the look seemed to say.”

“I was even a little glad that if it wasn’t going to be me she wanted, it was going to be someone who really deserved her.”

Source: City of Ashes

“If you insist on trying to get yourself killed, I insist on being the one who chooses what you wear while you recover”

Source: City of Ashes

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Luke Garroway, Clary Fray, and Jocelyn Fray, pg. 221-222
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Heavenly Fire (2014)
Context: Clary looked down at herself. She was wearing a pair of flannel pajamas, too short in the leg and tight in the chest, with fire trucks on them.
Luke raised an eyebrow. 'I think those were mine when I was a kid.'
'You can't seriously tell me there wasn't anything else you could have put me in.'
'If you insist on trying to get yourself killed, I insist on being the one who chooses what you wear while you recover,' Jocelyn said with a tiny smirk.
'The pajamas of vengeance,' Clary muttered.

“Oh, I'll trust you," the boy told him carelessly. "It hardly matters. We are all betrayed sooner or later—all betrayed, or traitors."
"I see that a flair for the dramatic runs in the blood," Magnus said under his breath.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: The Midnight Heir

“It was strange how your world could shift on its axis and everything you trusted could invert itself in what seemed like no time at all.”

“At last he reached out and with a gentle hand, closed Valentine’s eyes.
", Shadowhunter," he said.”

Source: City of Lost Souls

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“Screw the Silent Brothers."
"No thanks. There's strong and silent, and then there's just freaky."
"Isabelle!”

“He wanted to run to her, wrap her in his arms. Protect her. But it was Jem’s place to do those things, not his. Not his.” -Will Herondale”

Source: City of Lost Souls

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“Love isn't a weakness.”

“Youre a public menace. You shouldnt be allowed out on your own."said Simon.
"Jealousy is such an ugly emotion, Lewis."said Jace.”

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“She had never thought about her name much before, but when he said it, it was as if she were hearing it for the first time - the hard T, the caress of the double S, the way it seemed to end on a breath.”

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“I don't remember ordering the bride of an evil maniac," said Magnus. "It was definitely beef and broccoli. What about you, Tessa? Did you order the bride of an evil maniac?”

Source: Clockwork Angel

Cassandra Clare

Source: The Last Stand of the New York Institute

“They also said she was unconscious and that Valentine wasn’t happy about it. He seems to be waiting for her to wake up.”
“I’d stay unconscious if I were her,” Isabelle muttered.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“My darling, you are indisposed! You must remain abed for the next eight months. Little Buford - "
"I am NOT naming our child Buford…”

“Look well on this, my son," said the green-skinned man, "for one day I shall rule a clockwork kingdom of such beings, and you shall be its prince.”

Source: Clockwork Prince

“the less you had, the more careful you had to be about everything you did have.”

Source: Clockwork Prince

“It is always better to live the truth than to live a lie. And that lie would have kept him alone forever. He may have had nearly nothing for 5 years, but now he can have everything. A boy who looks like that… Magnus.”

Source: Clockwork Angel

“Being sixteen forever sounded good until you really thought about it. Then it didn't seem like such a great prospect.”

Source: Clockwork Prince

“Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop”

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“For the first time Valentine glanced down at the body of Brother Jeremiah. "I did kill him, and the rest of the Silent Brothers as well. I had to. They had something I needed."
"What? A sense of decency?”

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“He has many things I haven’t got,” said Jace. “Like nearsightedness, bad posture, and an appalling lack of coordination.”
-Jace about Simon, pg. 331-”

Source: City of Ashes

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“That you freed a possible criminal by trading away your brother to a warlock who looks like a gay sonic the Hedgehog and dresses like the childcatcher from.”

“Does that mean you agree?"
He groaned. "I think it means you crushed my spirit and beat me down."
"Fantastic.”

Clary, Isabelle, Jace, and Simon, pg. 150
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)
Context: "Traded him for Alec," Clary said.
"Not permanently."
"No," said Jace. "Just for a few hours. Unless I don't come back. In which case, maybe he does get to keep Alec. Think of it as a lease with an option to buy."
"Mom and Dad won't be pleased if they find out."
"That you freed a possible criminal by trading away your brother to a warlock who looks like a gay Sonic the Hedgehog and dresses like the Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?" Simon inquired. "No, probably not."

“Forsooth, I no longer toil in vain,
To prove that demon pox warps the brain.
So though 'ti pity, it's not in vain
That the pox-ridden worm was slain:
For to believe in me, you all must deign.”

Source: City of Lost Souls

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“You live in my head all the time." (Clary Fray)”

“The Queen sniffed. "I rather miss your Jace," she said. "Of all of you, he was the prettiest and the best-mannered.”

Source: City of Ashes