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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

“I belong to you. You could do anything you wanted with me and I would let you. You could ask anything of me and I'd break myself trying to make you happy. My heart tells me this is the best and greatest feeling I have ever had.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“One minute you're munching on a faerie plum the next minute you're running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not,' he added hastily, 'that this has ever happened to me.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Jace to Clary, pg. 192
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)
Context: "Don't order any of the faerie food," said Jace, looking at her over the top of his menu. "It tends to make humans a little crazy. One minute you're munching a faerie plum, the next minute you're running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not," he added hastily, "that this has ever happened to me."

“Clary’s eyes widened. She wondered if she was about to be broken up with. If so, she would have a thing or two to say to Jace about his timing, after she drowned him in the lake.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“Kyle want to be a rockstar. I think hes working the one-name thing. Like Rihanna."
"I have no idea what you're talking about.”

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“I didn't know you were bringing the mundane." His blue eyes flicked uneasily over Simon.
"That's what I like about you people," said Simon. "You always make me feel so welcome.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“Alec looked horrified, as if she'd asked him to put on a tutu and execute a perfect pirouette.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“There was something peculiarly gratifying about shouting in a blind rage until your words ran out. Of course, the aftermath was less pleasant. Once you'd told everyone you hated them and not to come after you, where exactly did you go?”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“He felt his heart, which no longer beat, contract, and he wondered if there was anything in the world as painful as not being able to protect the people you loved.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“But am I clever and right or clever and wrong?”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“How are you feeling?"
"Like someone massaged me with a cheese grater."
-Clary & Simon, pg.297-”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“I think of myself as a freewheeling bisexual," added Magnus.
"Please never say those words in front of my parents," said Alec.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“Will spread his arms wide. On his knees, grinning like a demon, blood dripping from his mouth, he barely looked human himself. “Come and get me.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“The next thing I knew I was listening to five people shouting. What was that all about, anyway?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“I dont know," said Simon, "it doesn't sound so bad to me. I'd rather have someone mess around inside my head than chop it off."
"Then you're a bigger idiot than you look.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“very funny my sarcastic friend”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“He had lost Will Herondale. And he did not know if he could ever get him back.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“They had just showed up, Amatis had said. Which meant Simon had spent thenight at Isabelle's. She stared at him. He didn'tany different.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“You asked me who I belong to. I belong to you.”

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“Fiction is truth, even if it is not fact. If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your brain will live, but your heart will die.”

Cassandra Clare book Lord of Shadows

Source: Lord of Shadows

“You might want to put some clothes on' suggested Jace 'I'm all for the bra and panties look, but you don't want the Silent Brothers to die of excitement”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“Jace,” she said. “Why are you doing this to me?”

“Because you’re lying to me. And you’re lying to yourself.” Jace’s eyes were blazing, and even though his hands were stuffed into his pockets, she could see that they were knotted into fists.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“Not really, but after that I think about how I could kill him while he slept if I really wanted to, and then I feel better.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“Hugo is a raven, and, as such he knows many things. I, meanwhile, am Hodge Starkweathe, a professor of history, as such, I do not know nearly enough.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“Glory?…. Glory belongs to God alone.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“Sebastian: YOU'RE Ragnor Fell the warlock?
Magnus: Well, I'm certainly not Ragnor Fell the exotic dancer”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Variant: Well, I'm certainly not Ragnor Fell the exotic dancer.
Source: City of Glass

“He was wearing a look that she found odd and compelling - that amusement that didn’t seem to pass beyond the surface of his features, as he found everything in the world both infinitely funny and infinitely tragic all at the same time.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“Jace, on the other hand, looked like the sort of boy who'd come over to your house and burn it down for kicks.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“Jem cried out with all his remaining strength. You cannot go where I am going! Nor would I want that for you!”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“Jem?" he said. 'It is you, James?'
'Who else?' Jem's voice.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“Is your inner vampire different from your… outer vampire?'
'Definitely. He wants me to wear midriff-baring shirts and a fedora.'
'So your inner vampire is Magnus?”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“Honestly I don't know why i have these parties"

"Because of your cat"

"That's true. Chairman Meow deserves my every effort”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“and don’t start your own line of glitter and try to sell it at Sephora.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“He bent down to her; their mouths met again, and the shock of sensation was so strong, so overpowering, that she shut her eyes against it as if she could hide in the darkness. He murmured and gathered her against him.”

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“Every student, Shadowhunter and mundane alike, knew the name Herondale. It was Jace’s last name. It was the name of heroes.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: The Lost Herondale

“I don’t think Will Herondale and a sense of responsibility are even on speaking terms”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“For love is as strong as death.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“We're late," she said, "The show is supposed to start in ten minutes. If some people hadn't decided that 'semiformal' meant 'seminaked'-"

"Why are you calling me 'some people'?" Mark inquired. "I am only one person.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

“endless hope, endless disappointment.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Clockwork Prince

“So you really cant think of anyone else who might want to kill you?"asked Jace.
"Unlike in your case there arent actually all that many people who dislike me."said Simon.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“Never mind that,” said Will. “I’m boasting of my investigative skills, and I would prefer to do it without interruption. Where was I?”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“I've always been told my presence brightened up any room. One might think that went doubly for dank underground cell." (Jace)”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“Hold on to me," Alec said, and Magnus gave him the sort of smile that made Alec feel like someone had taken an apple corer to his heart and tried to dig out the center.
“I always do, Alexander,” he said. “I always do.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“Goddamn it,” Jace shouted over the noise. “I hate it when Simon is right.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“All the stories are true”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“We see our better selves in the eyes of those who love us.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Variant: Our hearts, they need a mirror, Tessa. We see our better selves in the eyes of those who love us.
Source: Clockwork Princess

“Beauty is harsh.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince