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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

“I would take them in a bowl,” said Mark with a winning gaze. “It has been many years since I have eaten freely at my choice, fair one, and a plate of strawberries is all that I desire.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

“He was all silver and ashes, not like Will's strong colors of blue and black and gold.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel

“I swear on the Angel.” He ducked his head down, kissed her cheek. “The hell with that.
I swear on us.”
Clary wound her fingers into the sleeve of his T-shirt. “Why us?”
“Because there isn’t anything I believe in more.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“Magnus had been alive hundreds of years himself, and yet the simplest things could turn a day into a jewel, and a succession of days into a glittering chain that went on and on. Here was the simplest thing: a pretty girl liked him, and the day shone.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale

“I didn't say he was dating you," he said, "but funny that you knew just what I meant, isn't it?"
"We're not dating," Alec said again.
"Oh?" Magnus said. "So you're just that friendly with everybody, is that it?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“As dull as Nate Gray is," Will said, "his head is not actually filled with gears, Henry. He's a human.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“Careful, boy,” rumbled Gwyn. “You have your Laws and we have ours. The difference is only that we do not pretend ours are not cruel.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

“I don't want to be a man. I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Jace to Clary, pg. 45
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)

“Come on," he said.
"Let's get back to Alec before he decides Isabelle and Simon are having sex off in the caves and starts freaking out.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“I love you. And I don't want to lose you.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“Then Alec had smiled at one of Magnus’s jokes, and the smile had lit a lamp in his solemn face, making his blue eyes brilliant, and briefly taking Magnus’s breath away”

Cassandra Clare

Source: What to Buy the Shadowhunter Who Has Everything

“I have a suggestion," said Valentine to Luke, in a surprisingly even tone.
"Let me guess," said Luke. "It's 'Don't kill me,' isn't it?”

Cassandra Clare

“I told you to bring me to Alec! Backstabbing Judas.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“It really was getting difficult to be wonderful.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: The Runaway Queen

“That's right," he said. "I created a a bunch of Forsaken Warriors, had them attack the Institute and kill Madeleine and nearly kill the rest of us, just so that I could keep Clary from at home. And lo and behold, my diabolical plan is working.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“It would be one thing if I had been cursed so that everyone I loved would die," said Will. "I could keep myself from loving. To keep others from caring for me--it is an odd, exhausting procedure.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“I’ve lived a long time,” Magnus said. “So many years, and no, it doesn’t feel like enough. I won’t lie and say it does. I want to live on—partly because of you, Alec. I have never wanted to live so much as I have these past few months, with you.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“He raised an eyebrow, which made Clary instantly jealous. She’d always wanted to be able to do that.
…
Magnus raised an eyebrow. Damn, Clary thought, another one.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“Not Magnus himself, who was more of a cross between a panther and a demented elf.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“Simon kept pace beside Clary for a few moments without speaking before he said, “So what did I miss? Naked dancing ladies?”
Clary thought of the male faerie‘s torn-open ribs and shuddered. “Nothing that pleasant.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“I want my people to be protected, strong, and not to be driven into corners until they either become killers or are killed!”

Cassandra Clare

Source: Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale

“Judging people together was an essential part of best friendship”

Cassandra Clare

Source: Born to Endless Night

“He looked like the sort of boy who'd come over to your house to pick you up for a date and be polite to your parents and nice to your pets. Jace, on the other hand, looked like the sort of boy who'd come over to your house and burn it down for kicks.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“One more thing," Jace said. "Is there a holy place around here?"
“Good idea. If you're going to take on a lair of vampires by yourself, you'd better pray first.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“Yes, you bit me, yes, I kind of liked it, yes, let's not talk about it again, said Jace. You're not a vampire anymore. Focus.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Simon Lewis and Jace Herondale, pg. 716
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Heavenly Fire (2014)
Context: Simon was looking at Jace as if he were both fascinating and also a little alarming. 'Did I-- did we ever-- did I bite you?'
Jace touched the scar on his throat. 'I can't believe you remember that.'
'Did we... roll around on the bottom of a boat?'
'Yes, you bit me, yes, I kind of liked it, yes, let's not talk about it again,' said Jace.

“The path to hell is an easy one.”

Cassandra Clare

“One must look at the next step on the path ahead, rather than the mountain in the distance, or one would never reach one's goal.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“It's okay to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth loving.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Variant: It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.
Source: Clockwork Angel

“How swiftly you dismiss our love…”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Variant: Just kissing? How quickly you dismiss our love.
Source: City of Bones

“Yes," said Will, "you two don't seem to have much in common, save for a penchant for demon women and evil.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“You always find the right quote, or the right thing to say to make me believe you love me.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“Because women never say what they think.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“Father nevver once looked at any woman the way he looked at Mother, with joy and thanksgiving, as if she was a living wish, granted past all hope.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: Nothing but Shadows

“How had it happened, Simon thought, that he was bound to these people—to people who thought of him as nothing more than a Downworlder, half human at best?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“I belong to you. You could do anything you wanted with me and I would let you. You could ask anything of me and I'd break myself trying to make you happy.”

Cassandra Clare

“Jem put the full force of himself into each smile, so that he seemed to be smiling with his eyes, his heart, his whole being.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“People could bear so much, but Simon did not know how much of the original you was left when the world had twisted you into a whole different shape.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: Bitter of Tongue

“I have important business to get to. I plan to sulk all afternoon, followed, perhaps, by an evening of Byronic brooding and a nighttime of dissipation.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“I need someone who can keep up with me, not some sickly creature that looks as if he’s doddering off to the grave.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“We are Morgensterns," he added, a dark ache in his voice. " The bright stars of morning. The children of Lucifer, the most beautiful of all God's angels. We are so much lovelier when we fall." He paused. "Look at me, Clary. Look at me.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“I see you're trying to distract me from the real point here," Magnus said instead. "You had a birthday - a perfect excuse for me to throw one of my famous parties - and you didn't even tell me about it?”

Cassandra Clare

Source: Saving Raphael Santiago

“The handsome young fellow who's trying to rescue you from a hideous fate is never wrong.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“Los vampiros," she whispered.
"Oh God, not the bloody vampires again," said Magnus. "No pun intended.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: Saving Raphael Santiago

“I dislike boats," Ragnor observed, looking around. "I get vilely seasick." The turning green joke was too easy. Magnus was not going to stoop to make it.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: What Really Happened in Peru

“Tea. I find that both settles the stomach and concentrates the mind. Wonderful drink, tea.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“Oh, the universe had outdone herself. The universe would be send flowers.”

Cassandra Clare

Variant: The universe could be a wondrous thing. The universe had out did herself. The universe would be getting flowers.
Source: The Runaway Queen

“One can give up many things for love, but should not give up oneself”

Cassandra Clare The Bane Chronicles

Variant: One can give up many things for love, but one should not give up oneself.
Source: The Bane Chronicles

“Do you ever feel like screaming?' Clary asked him [Jace].
'Some of the time.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes