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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

“We all find out the people who are supposed to take care of us are human eventually. That they make mistakes.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

“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.”

Cassandra Clare The Bane Chronicles

Magnus Bane to a monkey in 1791, p. 12.
Source: The Bane Chronicles, What Really Happened in Peru (2013)
Context: He paused and admired the bromeliads, huge iridescent flower-like bowls made out of petals, shimmering with color and water. There were frogs inside the jewel-bright recesses of the flowers.
Then he looked up into the round brown eyes of a monkey.
'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.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“Family is more than blood”

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“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.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

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

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

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

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Variant: The Law is hard, but it is the Law.
Source: Lady Midnight

“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.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“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”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Variant: Do you want any soup?"
"No," said Jace.
"Do you think Hodge will want any soup?"
"No one wants any soup."
"want some soup," Simon said.
"No you dont," said Jace. "You just want to sleep with Isabelle.
Source: City of Bones

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

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

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

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Source: Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale

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

Cassandra Clare

Source: The Evil We Love

“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”

Cassandra Clare book Lord of Shadows

Source: Lord of Shadows

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

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

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

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“Who do we belong with but each other?”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“(…): 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!”

Cassandra Clare book The Shadowhunter's Codex

Source: The Shadowhunter's Codex

“The choices we make, make us.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

“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.”

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

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

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

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

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

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

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

Cassandra Clare book Lord of Shadows

Source: Lord of Shadows

“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.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

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

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

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

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“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.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“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.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

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

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Source: The Midnight Heir

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

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“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.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“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-”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

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

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

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

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Source: Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale

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

Cassandra Clare

Source: The Runaway Queen

“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.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“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.”

Cassandra Clare book Lord of Shadows

Source: Lord of Shadows

“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.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“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”

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

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“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.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

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

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“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?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

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

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“Not all that is mortal is useless.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess