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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

“She laced her fingers through his. "Good night," she whispered. With their hands clasped like children in a fairy tale, she fell asleep beside him in the dark.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“I've met an attractive weasel or two in my time. He looks more like a rat."
-pg.170-”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“We cant go around picking up every pile of dust in the place just in case it turns out to be Gregor in the morning."
-Pg.242-”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“There. She had thanked Sebastian. She waited for a bolt of lightning to shoot out of the clouds and striker her dead. But nothing happened.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“Why does it take girls so long to shower?” he demanded. “Mortal girls, Shadowhunters, female warlocks, you‘re all the same. I‘m not getting any younger waiting out here.”
-Magnus to Clary, pg.272-”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“Really? Are you going to ask him to be your partner?" Isabelle asked. "It's like cotillion, this partners business, except with killing."
"So, exactly like a cotillion," said Simon.”

Cassandra Clare

“Zara: It's just a registry…
Kit: Am I the only one who's read X-Men and realizes why this is a bad idea?”

Cassandra Clare book Lord of Shadows

Source: Lord of Shadows

“We get used to living one way, even if it's a bad way or a hard one. When that's gone, there's a hole to fill. It's in our nature to try to fill it with anxieties and fears. It can take time to fill it with good things instead.”

Cassandra Clare book Lord of Shadows

Source: Lord of Shadows

“"Unfortunately, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remains myself."
"At least you don't have to worry about rejection, Jace Wayland."
"Not necessarily. I turn myself down occasionally, just to keep it interesting."”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Jace and Madame Dorothea, pg. 345
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

“Malcolm looked warily at her. 'She may be dangerous,' he said to Julian. 'Then again, all women are dangerous.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

“I know you feel inhuman, and as if you are set apart, away from life and love, but…"
His voice cracked a little, the first time Tessa had heard him sound unsure.
He cleared his throat. "I promise you, the right man won't care.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“But it was Valentine. I saw him. In fact, he had the Sword with him when he came down to the cells and taunted me through the bars. It was like a bad movie, except he didn't actually twirl his mustache. - Jace Wayland”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“They said it was better to know your enemy, but how did it help to know that your enemy’s one weakness was your weakness too”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“Simon-"From now on I will only adress people by nodding at them." Clary-"That's stupid why would you do that?" Simon-"Because it says that 'I am a badass, and I recognive that you too, are a badass”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“It was a bit warm. Still. If one could look this fabulous, one had an obligation to. One should wear everything, or one should wear nothing at all.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: The Runaway Queen

“If I can not move heaven I shall raise Hell.”

Cassandra Clare

“We have a name," said Jace. "Magnes B-"
"Shut up." Alec hissed, thwacking Jace with his closed menu. Jace looked injured.
"Jesus," he rubbed his arm. "What's your problem?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“Will had shrugged once, helplessly. He had almost wished Jem would be angry with him. It would have been easier. He'd never felt so small within himself as he did when he faced Jem's expansive kindness.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“You cannot simply ask whether people look like their demon grandfather!”

Cassandra Clare

Source: Nothing but Shadows

“He loved her enough to know she was better off without him”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“He has become a worm. That is what I am telling you."
"I don't suppose it would be possible," said Henry into the silence, "to, er, step on him?”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“Your place is with me. It always will be. -Jem Carstairs”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“Love takes your choices away.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“Isabelle.
It was always Isabelle.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: The Lost Herondale

“But, like love, fire didn't last.”

Cassandra Clare The Bane Chronicles

Source: The Bane Chronicles

“I love you, Clary wanted to say. And, I would do it again. I would always ask for you.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“Someday," Magnus said, looking at the crumpled royal person at his feet, "I must write my memoirs.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: The Runaway Queen

“I'm not so sure about this wind and howling darkness business," Jace went on, "smells more like landfill to me. You sure you're not from Staten Island?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“If I’d just listened—just taken one second to listen—it wouldn’t have happened”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“He could smell her morality, the sweet rot of corruption”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“Well, I'm a Lovelace. My family quit Shadowhunting due to laziness in the 1700s.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy

“I know you: You’ll come find me again, you’ll come rescue me no matter what happens. You’ll come for me, and I’ll discover you all over again. I love you. I love you without the memories. I love you right now.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: Born to Endless Night

“We Shadowhunters, we put ourselves in danger, every hour, every day. I think sometimes we are reckless with our hearts the way we are with our lives. When we give them away, we give every piece.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Variant: I think sometimes we are reckless with our hearts the way we are with our lives. When we give them away, we give every piece. And if we do not get what we so desperately need, how do we live?
Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“You're not happy to see me, then?' Jace said. 'I have to say, I'm surprised. I've always been told my presence brightened up any room. One might think that went doubly for dank underground cells.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Variant: I'm glad you think this is funny."
"You'rehappy to see me, then?" Jace asked. "I have to say, I'm surprised. I've always been told my presence brightened up any room. One might think that went doubly for dank underground cells.
Source: City of Glass

“Who cares if you have a girlfriend, anyway?"

"I care" Simon said gloomily. "Pretty soon the only people left without a girlfriend will be me and Wendell the school janitor. And he smells like windex.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Variant: Pretty soon the only people left without a girlfriend will be me and Wendell the school janitor, and he smells like windex."
"At least you know he's still available.
Source: City of Bones

“Against his will, Magnus found a smile curving his lips as he rummaged around for his big blue coffee cup that said BETTER THAN GANDALF across the front in sparkly letters. He was besotted; he was officially revolted by himself.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: What to Buy the Shadowhunter Who Has Everything

“Clary?” Jace tilted his head to the side, studying her face. “You do—you still love me, don’t you?”

“I love Jace Lightwood,” she said. “I don’t know who you are.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“words have the power o change us”

Cassandra Clare

Source: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess

“All my life I've felt like there was something wrong with me. Something missing or damaged."
"Every teenager in the world feels like that, feels broken or out of place, different somehow, royalty mistakenly born into a family of peasants.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Variant: Every teenager in the world feels like that, feels broken or out of place, different somehow, royalty mistakenly born into a family of peasants. The difference in your case is that it's true.
Source: City of Bones

“Because I foresee many romantic picnics in our future. You, drinking a virgin pina colada. Me, drinking the blood of a virgin.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Simon to Clary, pg. 217
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)

“I will add that I do not believe his admiration of my person, dazzling through I am, to be sincere. He told me I was a beautiful, sparkling lady.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: The Midnight Heir

“… I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you. That you were the center of everything I did and felt and thought.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“Alec had his arms around Magnus and was kissing him, full on the mouth. Magnus, who appeared to be in a state of shock, stood frozen.”

Cassandra Clare

“The descent into hell is easy." said Alec. "You just said kiss the cook" "Dammit" said Simon. "I knew Jace was screwing with me”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls