Cassandra Clare Quotes page 22

“When two people are at one in their inmost hearts, they shatter even the strength of iron or bronze.”

Source: City of Bones

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: The Infernal Devices, Clockwork Princess (2013), p. 564, inscription on the back of Tessa's jade pendant

“Sebastian sighed an exaggerated sigh and swung the door shut. Clary stared at Jace. "What the f-"
"Language, Fray." Jace's eyes danced. "Relax.”

“Might I make free with your lettuce, my lady?”

Source: City of Lost Souls

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

“Guys don't let other guys keep calling other guys. Okay that came out wrong.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“She wondered why she’d ever thought trusting someone who wore that much eyeliner was a good idea.”

“If I have to tie you up and sit on you until this insane whim of yours passes, you are not going to Idris." (Jace Wayland)”

Source: City of Glass

“HOUSE RULES [at the Praetor Lupus Headquarters]

No shape-shifting in the hallways.
No howling.
No silver.
Clothing must be worn at all times. ALL TIMES.
No fighting. No biting.
Mark all your food before you put it in the communal refrigerator.”

Variant: You're not going," he said as soon as she'd finished. "If I have to tie you up and sit on you until this insane whim of yours passes, you are not going to Idris." - Jace
Source: City of Glass

“The weapons room looked exactly the way something called "the weapons room" sounded like it would look.”

Source: City of Lost Souls

“I care about you," Simon said. "I always cared about you.”

Source: City of Bones

“She had made the choice for him - in a moment of flight and panic, but she had made it - not realizing that her Jace would rather die than be like this, and that she'd been not so much saving his life as damning him to an existence he would despise.”

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“Clary stopped wondering about peanut-fish-olive-tomato soup and started wondering what would happen if she dumped the contents of the pot on Isabelle’s head.”

Source: City of Lost Souls

“But that's what you're doing, isn't it? You're part of the fight just as much as the Shadowhunters on the ship—and I know you can take some of my strength, I've heard of warlocks doing that—so I'm offering. Take it. It's yours.”

Source: City of Bones

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“Why mundanes always insist on taking responsibility for things that aren't their fault is a mystery to me. You didn't force that cocktail down his idiotic throat."
-Jace, pg.241-”

“Camille leaned forward. When she did, the neckline of her black silk blouse gaped open. If Simon had still been human, he would have blushed. "Will you let me see it?"
Simon could actually feel his eyes pop out. "See”

Source: City of Bones

“You bled on the Speaking stars… I bet there's a law somewhere about that.”

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“It was a very bad idea. It was a terrible idea. It was the worst idea he had ever heard. It was irresistible.”

Source: City of Bones

“We are all what our pasts have made us,” Catarina said. “The accumulation of thousands of daily choices. We can change ourselves, but never erase what we’ve been.”

Source: The Runaway Queen

“Anything?" She laughed. "Like what kind of anything did you want?"
"Well, when I was five, I wanted to take a bath in spaghetti."
-Clary & Jace, pg.310-”

Source: The Lost Herondale

“If you don’t go after Luke,” Clary said, enunciating very clearly, “I, personally, will kill you.”
For a moment Jocelyn looked astonished. Then she smiled. “Well,” she said, “if you put it like that.”

Source: City of Bones

“I believe in good and evil," said Jem. "And I believe the soul is eternal. But I don't believe in the fiery pit, the pitchforks, or endless torment. I do not believe you can threaten people into goodness.”

Source: City of Glass

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“The bad things can't matter more than the good things”

Cassandra Clare book Lord of Shadows

Source: Lord of Shadows

“Mr. Rochester never courted Jane Eyre, Tessa pointed out.
No, he dressed up as a woman and terrified the poor girl out of her wits. Is that what you want?”

“Everyone’s death means something”

Source: Clockwork Princess

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

“… As could the sarcasm in her voice. "yes, she's bleeding to deat Lu upstairs, but i thought I'd avoid telling you right away, because I like to draw the suspense out.”

“How she still thought of Max every day and it was like someone had emptied her lungs of air, and she would catch at her heart, afraid she was dying.”

Variant: Yes, she's bleeding to death upstairs, but I thought I'd avoid telling you right away, because I like to draw the suspense out.
Source: City of Fallen Angels

“I love you, Clary," he said without looking at her. He was staring out into the church, at the row of lighted candles, their fold reflected in his eyes. "More than I ever--" He broke off. "God. More than I probably should. You know that, don't you?”

Source: City of Lost Souls

“Picture this," said Magnus. "Me with a little monkey friend. I could teach him tricks. I could dress him in a cunning jacket. He could look just like me! But more monkey-shaped.”

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“This is my mother’s wedding,”«" she said. "We’re not going to have sex. At all."
"But ‘at all’ is my favorite way to have sex.”

Source: What Really Happened in Peru

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“It smells like heartbreak in here,” said Jace.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“That might be nice, an extra pair of arms," Jace said. "Handy in a fight."
"Not if they're growing out of your…" Dorothea paused and smiled, not without malice. "Neck.”

“You kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire. He had wondered once why love was always phrased in terms of burning. The conflagration in his own veins, now, gave the answer.”

Source: City of Bones

“He found himself wanting to write poetry about how her blue eyes were like starlight and her hair like night, because "night" and "starlight" rhymed, but he had a feeling the poem wouldn't turn out that well…”

Source: Clockwork Princess

“We're called Shadowhunters. At least, that's what we call ourselves. The Downworlders have less complimentary names for us.”

Source: Clockwork Princess

“Isabelle says the Queen of the Seelie Court has requested an audience with is"
Sure" said Magnus. "And Madonna wants me as a backup dancer on her next world tour”

Source: City of Bones

“I thought it'd be something cooler, like a van with 'Death to Demons' painted on the outside, or...”

“Jace: 'I don't like keeping her in the dark.'
Sebastian: 'We'll tell her in a week. What difference does a week make?'
Jace: 'Two weeks ago you were dead.'
Sebastian: 'Well, I wasn't suggestingweeks. That would be insane.”

Simon to Jace, pg. 132
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

“You never know when, and you never know who, but someday a stranger will burst through the door of your life and transform it utterly. The world will be turned upside down, and you will be happier for it.”

Variant: I don’t like keeping her in the dark,” Jace said.
“We’ll tell her in a week. What difference does a week make?”
Jace gave him a look. “Two weeks ago you were dead.”
“Well, I wasn’t suggesting two weeks,” said Sebastian. “That would be insane.
Source: City of Lost Souls

“Shadowhunters were brought up to handle anything, weren't they?”

Source: Nothing but Shadows

“If this is your idea of glamour, I'm having second thoughts about letting you make me over.”

Source: City of Glass

“She did not belong to Will-she was too much herself to belong to anyone, even Jem-but she belonged with them, and silently he cursed the Consul for not seeing it.”

Source: City of Bones

“It was hard to live normally when you were constantly pretending you didn't see what was going on in front of your face.”

Source: Clockwork Princess

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

“You asked me who I belong to," he whispered. "I belong to. Your blood is my blood, your bones my bones. The first time you saw me, I looked familiar, didn't I? Just like you looked familiar to me.”

“Is that why you didn't call me? Because I'm an idiot?”

Source: City of Lost Souls

“I forgot," Isabelle muttered as the rest of them caught up to her. "Faeries have no sense of humor."
"Oh, I wouldn't say that," said Jace. "There's a pixie nightclub downtown called Hot Wings. Not," he added, "that I have ever been there.”

Source: City of Glass

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“Life is a book, and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read. I would read them together with you, as many as I can, before I die.”

“Whither thou goest, I will go;
Where thou diest, will I die
And there will I be buried:
The Angel do so to me, and more also,
If aught but death part thee and me.”

Source: The Infernal Devices, Clockwork Princess (2013), p. 539, spoken by Will
reference to quote from Clockwork Angel
Context: I recall what you said to me once, that words have the power to change us. Your words have changed me, Tess; they have made me a better man than I would have been otherwise. Life is a book, and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read. I would read them together with you, as many as I can, before I die.

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“It's me," said Jace. "Watching me play Scrabble is enough to make most women swoon. Imagine if I actually put in some effort.”