Cassandra Clare Quotes page 27

“Ma'am," Magnus said, advancing. "I must counsel you not to exit the carriage while a demon-slaying is in progress.”

Source: City of Glass

“I tell myself he's better than he makes himself out to be, but, Tessa, what if he isn't?”

Source: Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale

“That ones yours, huh?"he asked, pointing to 3A."How come it just says 'Kyle'? Doesnt he have a last name?"
"Kyle wants to be a rock star,"Simon said, heading down the stairs."I think his working the one-name thing. Like Rihanna.”

Source: Clockwork Prince

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“I don’t want to be safe," he said. "I want to be with you”

“But that was Isabelle — if there was a boy around and blame that needed to be pinned on someone, Isabelle would pin it on him”

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“Crying wouldn't help anything now.”

Source: City of Glass

“Is this one of those days where we all stalk out in fury? Because I simply haven't got the energy for it.”

Source: City of Glass

“She is fine. She hates us both but it really didn't sound like anything else was wrong”

Source: Clockwork Prince

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“Magnus Bane,” said Magnus. “High Warlock of Brooklyn and Scrabble champion.”

“Clary grinned at Luke. “So you’re not moving to Idris, I take it?”
“Nah,” he said. He looked as happy as she’d ever seen him. “The pizza here is terrible.”

Source: What to Buy the Shadowhunter Who Has Everything

“Things did change. He’d gone from being eaten up with jealousy of Simon, to a grudging respect for his tenacity and courage, to actually considering him a friend, though he doubted he’d ever say so out loud”

Source: City of Glass

“She closed her hands around his and shut her eyes, imagining their bed cut free of this strange prison, floating through space or on the surface of the ocean, just the two of them alone.”

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“Just like an alley in New York -like every alley in the world, apparently- it smelled like cat pee.”

“My old tutor used to say that the hearts of Nephilim were like the hearts of angels: They felt every human pain, and never healed”

Source: City of Glass

“Magnus had heard the story of how the Nephilim were created many times. They must have forgotten to leave out the bit that said: And the Angel descended from on high and gave his chosen ones fantastic abs.”

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“There's never going to be anyone else for me. That's just how it is.”

Source: The Course of True Love [and First Dates]

Cassandra Clare book Lord of Shadows

Source: Lord of Shadows

“That is not love. That is debt.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

“No fewer than four of my esteemed elders told me I was on no account to ever converse with you, so I vowed that I would know you. My name is Edmund Herondale. May I ask your name? They reffered to you only as 'that disgraceful one-warlock show.”

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

Source: Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale

“[Will Herondale] would say he knew a warlock who was a better friend, and more worth trusting, than many a nephilim warrior.”

Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Princess

“I think we have established in so many ways that I am hot enough for the both of us”

Source: The Midnight Heir

“You’re sarcastic twelve hours a day, but you’re almost never spiteful. You have a good heart under all the glitter.”

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“Nothing is permanent," Magnus said. "I know this from experience. But you can get new things. You can meet new people. You can go on.”

Source: The Course of True Love [and First Dates]

“Magnus Bane. The Ultimate Traitor.

Not my favorite nickname. I prefer, "Our Lord and Master" or maybe "Unambiguously the Hottest.”

Source: The Rise of the Hotel Dumort

Cassandra Clare book Lord of Shadows

Source: Lord of Shadows

“Wo ai ni, Tessa,” he whispered. “Wo bu xiang shi qu ni.” She knew, without knowing how she knew, what the words meant. I love you. And I don’t want to lose you.”

“I'm not going to do that."
"of course you're not." Jace said. "because you live to torture me, don't you?"
"Not everything, Jace, is about you." Clary said furiously.
"Possibly," Jace said "But you have to admit that the majority of the things are.”

Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Prince

“Kyle is a werewolf?"asked Simon
"Of course he's a werewolf, you moron"said Jace”

Source: City of Glass

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“Alec's trying to get Magnus to take him seriously, but he's never told our parents about Magnus, or even that he likes, you know -" "Warlocks?" Simon said.”

“Before Clary could respond, Jace’s eyes slid open. He looked up at the warlock, dazzled and dizzy. “What are you doing here?”
Magnus grinned down at Jace, and his teeth sparkled like sharpened diamonds.
“Hey roommate,” he said.
-pg. 128-”

Source: City of Glass

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“Jules: For one, you have a terrifying older brother.
Livvy: I do not have a terryfying older brother.
Jules: That's true. You have two.”

Cassandra Clare book Lord of Shadows

Source: Lord of Shadows

“You understand my music.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“You are home for me now." --Jem to Tessa”

“Clary wondered how many boyfriends she'd turned into rats by accident.
-Clary to Isabelle, pg.245”

Source: Clockwork Prince

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“Heroes save worlds," Clary said. "They don't destroy them.”

“I think I gave Alec a complex about what kind of fighter he was, just because he wanted to live.”

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“I want you to be happy, and him to be happy. And yet when you walk that aisle to meet him and join yourselves forever you will walk an invisible path of the shards of my heart Tessa. I would give over my own life for either of yours.”

Source: City of Glass

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“You had to know someone very well to make them laugh like that. She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did not know him at all?”

“Why, oh why, had Jace picked a fight with a pack of wolves? What had possessed him? Then again, it was Jace. He'd pick a fight with a Mack truck if the urge took him.
-Clary, pg.40”

Source: Clockwork Prince

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“Perhaps he's in love with Agatha," she said.
"I hope not. I intend to marry Agatha myself. She may be a thousand years old, but she makes an incomparable jam tart. Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“All of us lost something. Some of us lost everything.”

“Dead bodies didn't resemble unconscious ones; it was as if you could sense that something had fled from them, that some essential spark was now missing.”

Source: The Lost Herondale

“He knew what 'I love you' meant, and he knew it was good, but he didn't understand why it was an explanation for anything.”

Source: City of Glass

“Kieran glanced at her with shimmering eyes. Neither looked quite human: The black eye was too dark, the silver too metallic. And yet the overall effect was haunting, inhumanly beautiful.”

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

“Let me guess. Luke an Amatis are at the Accords Hall, having another meeting.”
“Yeah. I think they’re having the meeting where they get together and decide what other meetings they need to have.”

“You're my brother."

"Those words don't mean anything where we're concerned. We aren't human. Their rules don't apply to us. Stupid laws about what DNA can be mixed with what. Hypocritical, really, considering. We're already experiments.”

Source: City of Glass

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“Mark spoke like a poem and walked like a dance.”

“Do you really wish to disobey me, Marbas? Do you wish to anger my father?”

Source: Bitter of Tongue

“Simon, don’t you think I’m scared of that too? You’re not the only one on that ledge. If we jump, we jump together. We fall together.”

“unrequitted love amuses me”

Source: Pale Kings and Princes