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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

“Maybe one day it will be just you and me, my little blueberry," Magnus said conversationally. "But not for a long, long time. We'll take care of him, you and I. Won't we?"
Max Lightwood made a happy burbling sound that Magnus took as agreement.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: Born to Endless Night

“With their hands clasped like children in a fairy tale, she fell asleep beside him in the dark.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“Enough of what?
Enough of behaving as you do.
Oh, I can never get enough. Which, incidentally, is what you sister said to me when”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“To draw something is to try to capture it FOREVER, if you really love something, you never try to keep it the way it is forever. You have to let it be free to change”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Variant: If you really love something, you never try to keep it the way it is forever. You have to let it be free to change.
Source: City of Ashes

“That's the van? It looks like a rotting banana."
This was undeniable - Eric had painted the van a neon shade of yellow, and it was blotched with dings and rust like splotches of decay.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“Hey, Clary. You take care of yourself," he said. "I know you can." He paused. "And take care of Jace, that poor, helpless blond."
Jace made an obscene gesture, which actually did feel familiar to Simon, so he knew that was their thing.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy

“She looked at him with loathing. "I knew you were crazy," she said. "But I didn't realize you were absolutely, spectactularly out of your goddamned mind.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“There's nothing you could have done that would cause me to cease loving either of you. Will is myself, my own soul, and if I am not to have the keeping of your heart, then there is not other I would rather have that honor.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“The kitchen was just as empty, even the refrigerator gone, the chairs, the table--the kitchen cabinets stood open, their bare shelves reminder her of a nursery rhyme. She cleared her throat. "What would demons," she said, "want with our microwave?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“we are not here just because we have nowhere else; we need nowhere else, because we have the Institute, and those who are in it are our family.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“Magnus had a list of favored traits in a partner-black hair, blue eyes, honest…”

Cassandra Clare

Source: What Really Happened in Peru

“Flirting? We were merely indulging in a little risqué conversation," Magnus said, offended.
"When I begin to flirt, I assure you the entire room will know. My flirtations cause sensations.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale

“Hell,” he said. “Just when it was getting interesting, too.” And he leaped into the water after his friend.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“I'm boasting of my… skills, and I would prefer to do it without interruption.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“I learned to play the instruments of war," he said, "and paint in blood.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“You like the party?
Is it in honour of anything?
My cat's birthday.
Where's your cat?
I don't know, he ran away.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“He'd learned his lesson a long time ago: Even in the midst of heartbreak, you could still find yourself laughing.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: What Really Happened in Peru

“Then, if you love him," he said quietly, "please, Tessa, don't tell him what I just told you. Don't tell him that I love you.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“He hadn't stopped wanting love. He had simply, somehow, stopped looking.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: What to Buy the Shadowhunter Who Has Everything

“My blood in his veins." ~Jace”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“If you run into a psychic wall face-first, do you wind up with psychic bruises?
-Clary, pg.239”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“I mean, is there a chance for me? To have another life after this, a better one?”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“Love did not overcome everything. Love did not always endure. All you had could be taken away, love could be the last thing you had, and then love could be taken too.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: Saving Raphael Santiago

“I don’t want the world. I want you,” Alec said, and Magnus closed his eyes, as if the words almost hurt.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“Hello?" Isabelle called from the other side. "Simon, is your diva moment over? I need to talk to Jace.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“Great,” Simon said. “Maybe I’ll even make it back before my mother notices I’m gone. What’s the time difference between here and Manhattan?”
“You have a mother?” Aline looked amazed.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“I don't suppose it would help if I told you that is the way life is. The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Variant: Pointless, needless suffering and pain? I don’t suppose it would help if I told you that was the way life is. The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away.
Source: Clockwork Princess

“Oh, I can never get enough," he said. "Which, incidentally, is what your sister said to me when-"
The carriage door flew open. A hand shot out, grabbed Will by the back of the shirt, and hauled him inside.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“Like what you see?”

Cassandra Clare

“Parabatai" said Jace. "It means a pair of warriors who fight together - who are closer than brothers. Alec is more than justmy best friend.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“Demonic activity levels? Do they have a device that measures whether the demons inside the house are doing power yoga?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Simon to Clary, pg. 340
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

“By the Angel, it just crushed Sophocles," noted Will. "Has no one respect for the classics these days?”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“Do you think she’ll catch him before he gets to the hall?”
“My mom’s spent her whole life chasing me around,” Clary said. “She moves fast.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“Mundanes who involve themselves in things they know nothing about are likely to meet unpleasant endings.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“I brought you some coffee.” he held out the cup but she waved it away.
“I hate that stuff. It tastes like feet.”
At that he smiled. “How would you know what feet taste like?”
“I just know.”
-Luke and Clary, pg.209-”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“Gibberish?" Jem suggested
"Pornographic?" said Will at the same time.
"Could be both," said Will. "Haven't you ever heard of pornographic gibberish before?”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“[Jem] looked from Will to Tessa and raised his silvery eyebrows. "A miracle," he said. "You got him to speak."
"Just to shout at me, really," said Tessa. "Not quite loaves and fishes.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“One for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a birth, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret that's never been told.
~ Simon”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“Obviously you would call them Malec,” said Beatriz. “Are you stupid, Simon?”

Cassandra Clare

Source: Born to Endless Night

“Something snapped inside Maryse. “He is not a Herondale. He is a Lightwood. Jace Lightwood. He’s my son.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“I'm tired of watching you be in love with someone else someone who will never love you back, not the way I do.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“As if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has. Since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Variant: And now I'm looking at you, he said, and you're asking me if I still want you, as if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything ever has.
Source: City of Glass

“Were you ever actually going to leave New York, or were you just saying that to get her to finally make a move?”
“Clary,” said Luke, “I am shocked that you would suggest such a thing.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“He picks up his dates in a van? No wonder he‘s such a hit with the ladies.”
-Jace about Simon, pg. 331”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“The missing stairs baffled Clary. What did vampires have against stairs?
-Clary, pg.266”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones