Cassandra Clare Quotes page 29

“Theoretically the planet could suddenly crack in half, leaving me on one side and you on the other side, forever and tragically parted, but I’m not worried about that, either. Some things,” Jace said”

Variant: As long as there is love and memory, there is no true death,” he said. He
Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“With hope at last.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“Poor you, you have two cute girls vying for your love. Your life is hard.”

“Why should I tell you everything about how I feel when you never tell me anything? It's like banging my head on a wall, except at least if I were banging my head on a wall, I'd be able to make myself stop. - Jace Wayland.”

Source: City of Glass

“It is better than going on loving someone who cannot love me back. Better wasting all that feelings"
-Tessa gray”

Jace and Clary, pg. 244
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)
Context: "I wish I could hate you. I want to hate you. I try to hate you. It would be so much easier if I did hate you. Sometimes I think I do hate you and then I see you and I-"
"And you what?"
"What do you think? Why should I tell you everything about how I feel when you never tell me anything. It's like banging my head on a wall, except at least if I were banging my head on a wall, I'd be able to make myself stop."

“You’re attacking that one like a wolverine.”

Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel

“By the time Alec came back into the training room, Jace was lying on the floor, envisioning lines of dancing girls in an effort to ignore the pain in his wrists. It wasn’t working.
~pg. 317~”

Source: City of Lost Souls

“Rocking back and forth, she clutched the sword like it was the only thing she had ever loved, and let the blood spill down instead of tears.”

Source: City of Ashes

“But you hardley even know him"she said."He could be a serial killer"
"I did have that thought. I checked the apartment out, but if his got an ice cooler full of arms in it, I havent seen it yet. Anyway he seems pretty since.”

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“Who ever said the world was fair?”

“In some ways, we've been through something no one else can ever understand but the two of us… And it made me realize. We are always and absolutely better together.”

Source: City of Bones

“Are you still mad because i broke your phone" Jace said. "Because you broke my wrist, so i'd said we're even"
"It was sprained," Alec said. "Not broken, sprained”

Source: City of Lost Souls

“There's no reason for any warlock to be interested in her unless he's in the market for nonfunctional crystal balls.”

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“Have you heard that modesty is an attractive traits?
Only to ugly people”

Source: City of Bones

“Jordan followed, buttoning his jeans and muttering about how there was nothing strange about having a pattern of dancing penguins on your underwear.”

Source: City of Bones

“The first one is always the hardest," he said.
"The first?"
"The first one you love who dies," he said. "It gets easier, after.”

Source: City of Lost Souls

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“She's alive," Thomas said, not opening his eyes.
"What?" Will was caught off guard.
"The one you come back for. Her. Tessa. She's with Sophie.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“It was like a bad movie, except he didn't actually twirl his mustache.”

“At least," she said, "you don't have to worry about rejection, Jace Wayland."
"Not necissarily. I turn myself down occasionally, just to keep it interesting.”

Jace to Clary, pg. 122
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)

“There was a yell, but Magnus had already risen and closed the door before he could see Alec fall down the steps, as that was the sort of thing a man had to do in private.”

Source: City of Bones

“Freely we serve. Because we freely love, as in our will to love or not; in this we stand or fall.”

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

“You have to know I wouldn’t wish for a different life," she said. "This life brought me you”

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“Filters are for cigarrettes and coffee," Simon muttered under his breath as they went inside. "Two things I could use right now, incidentally.”

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“I only count the hours that shine.”

Source: City of Bones

“You could say anything you wanted to someone you thought you were never going to see again.”

Source: City of Glass

“Ah, the 'I told you so'", Jace said. "Always a classy move.”

Source: City of Glass

“And the answer is yes. I have loved you. I always have, and I always will.”

Variant: i told you he'd freak out, she siad. didn't i?

ah, the i told you so, jace said. always a classy move
Source: City of Glass

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“You must behave as if return is certain, not a matter of chance", Jem said.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“Well you can go ahead and hand your head out the window if you feel like it"

"I'm a werewolf not a golden retriever”

“I don't know why I had to fall in love with someone who's more stubborn than I am.”

Clary and Luke, pg. 415
Variant: "Well, you can go ahead and hang your head out of the car window if you feel like it."
Luke laughed. "I'm a werewolf, not a golden retriever."
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

“Clary wondered what exactly peanut-fish-olive-tomato soup tasted like.”

“Women are fiercer by far than men.”

Source: City of Bones

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

“Tessa knows Will,” protested Charlotte. “She trusts Will.”
“Iwouldn’t go that far,” muttered Tessa.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“My parabatai, he loved like few ever could love, with all and everything. I see you are like that too; it burns more brightly in you than the fire of Heaven.”

“She wondered if there were any ugly vampires, or maybe any fat ones.
Maybe they didn't make vampires out of ugly people. Or maybe ugly people just didn't want to live forever.”

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“said Luke, as if it were the filthiest word he knew.”

Source: City of Bones

“Always ask for what you want, because the worst thing that can happen is embarrassment but the best thing that can happen is nudity.”

Source: City of Ashes

“And he understands. He understands why people hold hands: he’d always thought it was about possessiveness, saying This is mine. But it’s about maintaining contact. It is about speaking without words. It is about I want you with me and don’t go.”

Source: Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale

“It was only recently that Isabelle had realized other girls weren’t just for envying, avoiding, or disliking.”

Source: City of Bones

“Raphael snapped, "This isn't funny."
"That's why no one's laughing."
-Raphael & Jace, pg.272-”

Source: City of Glass

“Clary - "Look you can date whoever you want and I will totally support you. I am all about support. Support is my middle name."

Simon- "So that's why you never told me your middle name. I figured it was something embarrasing.”

Source: City of Bones

“But the Silent Brothers have tried everything to separate Jace from the heavenly fire, and they can't do it. It's in his soul. So what's their plan, hitting Sebastian over the head with Jace until he passes out?”

Variant: Look, you can date whoever you want and I will totally support you. I am all about support. Support is my middle name.”
“So that’s why you never told me your middle name. I figured it was something embarrassing.
Source: City of Glass

“It made him feel indispensable and needed - even if the fact that Jocelyn didn't appear to care wheather he slept in her daughter's bed or not did underscore that Clary's mother apparently regarded him as about sexually threatening as a goldfish.”

"Brother Zachariah said pretty much the same thing. Maybe with less sarcasm."
Clary Fray and Jace Herondale, pg. 100-101
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Heavenly Fire (2014)

“Maureen clapped her hands together. "Oh," she said in her elfin little voice. "It's pretty."
"Pretty?" Simon looked quickly at the hunched shape on top of the concrete block. "Maureen, what the hell-”

Source: City of Lost Souls

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“If you love someone, you're not supposed to want them to come back. Better a peaceful sleep in the earth than the life of a zombie--not really dead but not really alive, either.”

“Isabelle!” Simon called. “Stop throwing clothes at me! Just because you’re a Shadowhunter and I’m a vampire doesn’t mean we can never happen. Our love is forbidden like the love of a shark and a—and a shark hunter. But that’s what makes it special.”

Source: Zombies Vs. Unicorns