Cassandra Clare Quotes

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

“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”

“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”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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?”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“To my son,

If you are reading this letter, then I am dead.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“Yech," said Simon.
"Don't 'yech' me. You're the one with the magical spit.”

“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.”

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

“My blood in his veins." ~Jace”

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

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

“Clary," Jace said again. "You know: short, redheaded, bad temper.”

“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.”

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

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

“Wallowing was for elephants, depressing people and depressing elephants”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Like what you see?”

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

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

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

“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.”

“Jace is in love with the idea of dying,” said Isabelle.”

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

“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-”

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

“[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.”

“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”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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