Cassandra Clare Quotes

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“Hello, companion," said Magnus.

The monkey made a terrible sound, half snarl and half hiss.

"I begin to rather doubt the beauty of our friendship," said Magnus.”

“Life was an uncertain thing.”

“Family is more than blood”

“Always when Will did something to protect Tessa, Jem thought it was for his sake, not for Will's. Always Will wished Jem could be entirely right. Each needle prick had it own name. Guilt. Shame. Love.”

“No wonder you and Jace like each other so much. You're both crazy walking arsenals.”

“And I remind you of your mother now? I have got to look into a manlier cologne.”

“The Law is annoying, but it is also flexible.”

“You have a dark heart in you, Valentine's daughter.”

“I am not doing this in front of everyone," Simon announced.
“It’s not spin the bottle, Simon,” said Clary. “It’s just food. Not that you’re food, Alec,” she added when he glared. She held her hands up. “Never mind.”

“Isabelle: Do you want some soup?
Jace: No
Isabelle: Do you think Hodge will want some soup?
Jace: No one wants soup
Simon: I want some soup!
Jace: No, you don't. You just want to sleep with Isabelle”

“It’s like a cotillion, this partners business, except with killing.”
“So, exactly like a cotillion,” said Simon.”

“Very well," Magnus said. "Let us pause for a moment and consider—Oh, you have already run off Splendid.”

“Loving someone doesn't mean you're never going to make mistakes.”

“What’s the Nephilim motto again?”
“ ‘We are dust and shadows,’ ” said Ty, not looking up from his book.
“Some of us are very handsome dust,” Jace added”

“khalepa ta kala, greek.
It means 'beauty is harsh'.”

“Sometimes you must lose everything to gain it again, and the regaining is the sweeter for the pain of loss.”

“Who do we belong with but each other?”

“(…): Oh, David, I would trust you with my life! Oh, Jonathan, I would sacrifice my own life for your holy mission! (He almost does): (weeping) David, you must return to me! I need you! I cannot do this thing without you!: Lo, I return!”

“The choices we make, make us.”

“Dios," he said, addressing himself to Jace. "What happened to you, brother? You look as if a pack of wolves tried to tear you apart."
"That's either a shockingly good guess," said Jace, "or you heard about what happened.”

“I can tell you that the end of life is the some of the love that was lived in it.”

“Why is it, little Shadowhunter, that your angels are so cold and without mercy? Why do they break that which will not obey them?”

“Alec would have said he could have benefited from a bit more in the way of constructive cowardice.”

“To make a true choice, we must have true knowledge.”

“She gritted her teeth. She was here with Sebastian, on her way to see a powerful warlock, and mentally she was maundering on about the way Jace smelled.”

“Julian spoke through his teeth. "Malcolm, this is not a love story."
"Every story is a love story.”

“I don't care what you do. As long as you know you belong to me.”

“A sarcastic blond genie with a bad attitude.
-Clary, pg.243”

“I know you worry about me needing you, but I shouldn't be with you because I need you. I should be with you because I love you.”

“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?"
"You would make a very ugly woman."
"I would not. I would be stunning.”

“Being remembered, and remembered so kindly, touched him more than he would have thought possible.”

“We find in our children our own selves again, who might be made better than we are.”

“I can offer you my life, though it is a short life. I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many beats it shall sustain. But I love you enough to hope the rest of my life-whatever its length-happy, by spending it with you.-Jem.”

“Right. Vampires. But how do they get inside?"
"They fly"…
"We dont fly," Clary felt impelled to point out.
"No," Jace agreed. "We dont fly. We break and enter."…
"Flying sounds like more fun."
-Clary & Jace, pg.258-”

“When Jace opened the greenhouse door, the scent hit Clary, soft as the padded blow of a cat's paw…”

“I'm memorable, its true."
-Magnus, pg.229-”

“I thought of love as a game. It is not a game. It is more serious than death.”

“Are you, monsieur, a man of your word?"
"It really depends upon the word," Magnus said. "There are so many wonderful words…”

“He would look so young. They were both so young. Tessa knew it was unusual to marry at seventeen and eighteen, but they were racing a clock.
The clock of Jem's life, before it wound down.”

“He grinned, and the grin changed his face completely. Ty when he was still and expressionless had an intensity that fascinated Kit; when he was smiling, he was extraordinary.”

“Perhaps, but you would not exist without a woman, would you? However little use you may find us, we are cleverer and more determined and more patient than men. Men may be stronger, but it is women who endure.”

“Kissing Simon was pleasant. It was a gentle sort of pleasant, like lying in a hammock on a summer day with a book and a glass of lemonade”

“You are a great deal of trouble, Jace Herondale”

“But-Jace what are you doing?'
'Finishing my shower. And if you‘ve made me run through all the hot water, I‘ll be very annoyed.”

“How easy it was to lose everything you had always thought you'd have forever.”

“I don't care who her mother is," Magnus said. "You can't see me with out an appointment. Come back later. Next March would be good,"
"March?" Sebastian looked horrified.
"You're right," Magnus said, "Too rainy. How about June?”

“Will looked as if he were being asked to believe in something impossible—snow in summertime, a London winter without rain.”

“I always thought I was happy being the dark star to your supernova.”

“Not all that is mortal is useless.”