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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

“"Was it weird hearing from Jace? I mean, since you found out…"
"Yes? Since I found out what? That he's a killer transvestite who molests cats?"
"No wonder that cat of his hates everyone."”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Simon and Clary, pg. 472-473
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

“If you don't want them to find you, changing your last name seems a fairly elementary first step. Trust me, I'm an expert. I've watched a lot of spy movies.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: The Last Stand of the New York Institute

“I thought you hated demons. Now you use them like servants. The Ravener, the Drevak demons, Agramon-they‘re your. Guards, butler-personal chef, for all I know.”
-Jace to Valentine, pg.260”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“They were frightening enough, but Tessa could not help but feel that if Will were there, he would have commented that they looked like turnips, and perhaps made up a song about it.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“Through many waters borne, brother, I am come to thy sad grave, that I may give these last gifts to the dead. Forever and ever, brother, hail. Forever and ever, farewell.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Princess

“Magnus did not have enormous respect for the Law, but if he was breaking it he wanted to look good doing it.”

Cassandra Clare The Bane Chronicles

Source: The Bane Chronicles

“I hate people forcing me to talk about my feelings,” said Alec.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: Born to Endless Night

“He speaks of you only with the greatest pride, Will”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“… one could not be truly lost if one knew one's own heart. But I fear I may be lost without knowing yours.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“The rules are the rules for a reason. Being a Shadowhunter, a good one, is about more than just training fourteen hours a day and knowing sixty-five ways of killing a man with salad tongs.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

“You're killing me because you want me to give a message to God for you?" Jace shook his head, the point of the blade scraping across his throat. "You're crazier than I thought”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“"You disappear so completely into your head sometimes. I wish I could follow you."
You do. You live in my head all the time.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Jace and Clary, pg. 354
Variant: You disappear so completely into your head sometimes," he said. "I wish I could follow you.
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)

“Shadowhunters don't say good-bye, not before a battle. Or good luck. You must behave as if return is certain, not a matter of chance”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“Their closeness wouldn't break, but it would bend and stretch into a new shape.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

“I've been thinking of installing a train in my house. It could bring me shrimp crackers from the kitchen.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

“There might be a God, Clary, and there might not, but I don't think it matters. Either way, we're on our own.”

Cassandra Clare The Mortal Instruments

Jace to Clary, pg. 257
The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

“No one can live with nothing.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“Hail and Farewell, my brother.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“What would you prefer? 'What did the Count eat today, children? One helpless villager, two helpless villagers, three helpless villagers….”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“Go to faeries for gossip about vampires, to werewolves for gossip about faeries, and do not gossip about werewolves, because they try to bite your face off: that was Magnus's motto.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: Saving Raphael Santiago

“… love given without free will or truthfulness wasn't love at all.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“Wasn't it? Is loyalty still a commendable quality when it is misdirected?”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“He lifted the violin to his shoulder then, and raised the bow. And he played.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“Jace was kissing her like he thought he might go to hell for doing it, but it would be worth it.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“I knew then that Jocelyn would never come back to me, because of you. You are the only thing in the world she ever loved more than she loved me. And because of that she hates me. And because of that, I hate the sight of you”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“Jace knew he was being cruel, and he barely cared. Hurting people he loved was almost as good as hurting himself when he was in this kind of mood.”

Cassandra Clare

“It was truly amazing, Clary thought, how much teenage boys were able to eat without ever gaining weight or making themselves sick.
-pg.68”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“I hate it when straight guys think all gay guys are attracted to them. I'm not attracted to every guy any more than you're attracted to every girl.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Variant: No, I couldn’t,” Alec said. “I hate it when straight guys think all gay guys are attracted to them. I’m not attracted to every guy any more than you’re attracted to every girl.
Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“He wont have to worry about you spilling his secrets.”
“Yeah,” Jace said, “he‘s terrified I‘ll tell everyone that he‘s always really wanted to be a ballerina.”
-Inquisitor & Jace about Valentine, pg.123-”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Variant: How awfully convenient for you, regardless. And for him. He won't have to worry about you spilling his secrets."
"Yeah," Jace said. "He's terrified I'll tell everyone that he's always wanted to be a ballerina.
Source: City of Ashes

“I do not mean to seem indelicate or ungrateful," said Linette Owens, "but are you a dangerous lunatic?”

Cassandra Clare

Source: Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale

“What’s wrong with you?” Simon demanded. “Saying ‘don’t panic’ is guaranteed to make everyone panic! Be specific about the problem.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy

“To be beautiful you had to be willowy and tall. When you were as short as Clary was, just over five feet, you were cute. Not pretty or beautiful, but cute.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“I can't - I'll chop off my own foot!"
"If you're going to chop off anyone's foot, chop off Benedict's," Will muttered.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“Lack of certification hardly proves intelligence,” Will muttered.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Variant: I am not a certified idiot—"
"Lack of certification hardly proves intelligence," Will muttered.
Source: Clockwork Princess

“Sebastian lay a few feet away from her, on his back. There was a great blackened hole across the front of his chest. He turned his head toward her, his face taut and white with pain, and her heart contracted.
His eyes were green.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“Don't be a sexist. They could find me a female instructor."
"In that case you have my permission to make out with her, as long as I can watch.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“Will gave a short laugh. He was in gear as if he had just come from the practice room, and his hair curled damply against his temples. He was not looking at Tessa, but she had grown used to that. Will hardly ever looked at her unless he had to.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“It's been so long that I think I was unsettled by the idea of feeling like I belonged anywhere. But you made me feel like I belong.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Jace to Clary, pg. 482
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

“What if everything you believe is wrong and you could still be loved and still be forgiven?”

Cassandra Clare

Source: Saving Raphael Santiago

“And she tricked us into taking walkie-talkie rings she could listen in on,” Simon said. “I wouldn’t trust her further than I could throw a medium-sized elephant.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“He was standing leaning against the door frame; now he stood up straight. "How should I have kissed you? Is there an other way you like it?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“Reckless,” he said. “You know, when I first showed up at the Institute, Alec called me reckless so many times that I went and looked it up in the dictionary”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“After all, it was never Darnay he quoted, only Sydney, drunk and wrecked and dissipated. Sydney, who died for love.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“Isabelle glanced back at them. "They're staring at you. Maybe their master died and they're looking for another vampire to own them. You could have pets." She grinned.
"Or," Simon said,"maybe they're here for the hash browns.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“It's not Cowardly to make a choice about what you want your life to be. Choosing what's right for you, maybe that's the bravest thing you can do.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: Angels Twice Descending

“So we're racing the Clare and the Courts," said Julian. "Fantastic. Maybe there's someone else we can piss off. The Spiral Labyrinth? The Scholomance? Interpol?”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

“Hmph," she said. "I'd like to see you learn how to manage sitting and standing up straight in stays and petticoats and a dress with a foot's worth of train!"
"So would I," said Gideon from across the room.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince