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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

“He could bring a six-foot tall pink rabbit in a bikini back home with him if he wanted to. It’s not my business. But if you’re asking me if I’ve brought any girls back here, the answer is no. I don’t want anybody but you.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“The man glanced down and made a face. "I see that many pigeons have pooped upon these stairs," he remarked. "I shall remain standing, if that's not too rude.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“Maryse sighed."Nothing conclusive. If only the dead could talk, eh, Lucian?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“Magnus believed that many old things were creations of enduring beauty. The pyramids. Michelangelo’s David. Versailles. Magnus himself.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: Born to Endless Night

“I’m just saying that I think I chose the way I did in part because of you. Since I’ve
met you, everything I’ve done has been in part because of you.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“Magnus did not take such suffering lightly, but even mortals did not die of broken hearts. No matter how cruel Grace had been, he told himself, James would heal. Even though he was a Herondale.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: The Midnight Heir

“Magnus thought of James Herondale, burning up with too much light, too much love, too much, too much- while the boy in the portrait was as lovely as a dying poet, with the fragile beauty of a candle about to gutter out.”

Cassandra Clare The Bane Chronicles

Source: The Bane Chronicles

“With a sigh she reached into her pocket and drew out a small velvet bag, which upended on the table. Two gold rings fell out, landing with a soft clink. Simon looked at them puzzled. "You want to get married?”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“Many who have gazed upon me have compared the experience to gazing at the radiance of the sun.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“You see, I do not want a body without a heart.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

“A massive fir, it rose to nearly touch the ceiling at the far end of the ballroom. When Will asked Charlotte how on earth it had gotten in there, she had only waved her hands and said something about Magnus.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“If the marriage were valid, she'd be your sister-in-law.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“You don't understand,' she said, and there was a puzzling trace of resentment in her voice. 'Children never do. The love a parent has for a child, there's nothing else like it. No other love so consuming.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“Maybe they didn't make vampires out of ugly people. Or maybe ugly people just didn't want to live forever.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“That Jem makes beautiful things and I destroy them. That it really ought to be me dying and not him. I mean, what's the point of living if you can't even enjoy it? Yet Jem enjoys all the life he's got. It's not fair.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“Sometimes it's braver not to fight. Protect them, and save your vengeance for another day.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“Jace wasn’t exactly prone to random fits of panic”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“Oh, God,” Magnus said. “They’re dead. They’re all dead.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Variant: Oh God.” said Magnus, “they’re dead. They’re all dead!
Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“Love makes liars of us all.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Variant: Love makes you a liar.
Source: City of Ashes

“Was it better to think you had lost everything, and to start over? Or easier to know that the people you loved were alive, even if you could never see them again?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“And that - he pointed ahead - is the road to Hell. That's where we're going. I have always heard it was paved with good intentions, said Simon”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Alex Lightwood, Simon Lewis, and the Seelie Queen, pg. 353-354
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Heavenly Fire (2014)
Context: There,' he said, pointing to the leafy tunnel. 'That goes farther into Faerie. And that'--he pointed ahead--'is the road to Hell. That's where we're going.'
'I always heard it was paved with good intentions,' said Simon.
'Place your feet upon the way and find out, Daylighter,' said the Queen.

“The Chairman likes you.”
“Is that good?”
“I never date anyone my cat doesn’t like,” Magnus said easily, and stood up.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“I can't believe you know someone named Freaky Pete," said Simon.
"I know alot of people," said Luke. "Not that Freaky Pete is strictly people, but I'm hardly one to talk.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“This was what people fought wars over, she thought, and killed each other over, and destroyed their lives for: this nerve-shredding mixture of longing and pleasure.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

“Most people don't cry when they're upset or frightened, but rather when they're frustrated. Your frustration is understandable. You've been through a most trying time." -Hodge”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“I'm warning you, that jacket is sexy. The Institute could go up in sexy, sexy flames.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“I make rude gestures at nuns”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Variant: I kick kittens. I made rude gestures at nuns.
Source: City of Ashes

“Magnus began to be truly alarmed. Will's voice would have shaken, betraying that his cruelty had been part of his playacting, but his son's laugh was that of someone genuinely delighted by the chaos erupting all around him”

Cassandra Clare

Source: The Midnight Heir

“Gracious," said Cecily. "You must be Mr. Sallows."
"Nephilim," observed the shop owner gloomily. "I detest Nephilim."
"Hmph," said Cecily. "Charmed, I'm sure.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“Memories did one no good, not when one knew the truth in the present. Will was beautiful, but he was not hers; he was anybody's. Something in him was broken, and trough that break spilled a blind cruelty, a need to hurt and to push away.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“One does not greet the Queen of the Seelie Court with the barbarous human 'hello'…”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“She warned me about Mr. Herondale, though, said he’d likely be rude to me, and familiar. She said I could be rude right back, that nobody would mind.”

“Someone ought to be rude to him. He’s rude enough to everyone else.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“You no longer need other people in your life once you have found your true love.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“Moreover, I wish to assure you both that I did not make any amorous advances on female monkeys.”

Cassandra Clare The Bane Chronicles

Giulana and Magnus Bane in 1791, p. 13.
Source: The Bane Chronicles, What Really Happened in Peru (2013)
Context: "But of course you should have retreated at once from the dominant male. Are you an idiot? You are extremely lucky he was distracted from ripping out your throat by the fruit. He thought you were trying to steal his females."
"Pardon me, but we did not have the time to exchange that kind of personal information. I could not have known! Moreover, I wish to assure both of you that I did not make any amorous advances on female monkeys. [... ] I didn't actually see any, so I didn't get the chance."

“Not my favourite topic, Smedley."
"Simon," said Simon. "if I'm going to die for you all, the least you could do is remember my name."………

"Alright, everybody. Get over here. Sheldon's had an idea."
"Who's Sheldon?" Said Isabelle.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“You don’t draw, and I don’t breathe. Not so much like last year”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“It’s that I think Will is angry with me,” Tessa explained. “So whatever he told you—”
He laughed. “Will is angry with everyone,” he said. “I don’t let it color my judgment.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“well that's convenient, i guess blessings are easier to come by than i thought. maybe i should ask for blessings on my mission against all those who wear white after labor day”

Cassandra Clare

“The letter I received said you had need of my particular talents, but I must confess that I have so many talents that I am not sure which one you require.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: What Really Happened in Peru

“She was like an avenging angel, her vengeance swift and deadly.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: The Lost Herondale

“Go forth and light the lights of war”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“Magnus placed an order with the room service, who had by now stopped questioning Mr. Bane's unusual needs for things like twenty-four plates of scrambled eggs and “”.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: The Rise of the Hotel Dumort

“For the first time, he looked at her, and she wasn’t a stranger, she was Clary—his friend. His family. The girl he’d sworn always to protect. The girl he loved as fiercely as he loved himself.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: The Lost Herondale

“Now that the real and the imagined had collided, he wondered if she, like he, longed for the past, for the normal. He wondered if normalcy was something, like vision or silence, you didn't realize was precious until you lost it.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“Don't you hate it? Not ever saying how you really feel?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“And if there were two things he believed were limitless, it was love and imagination.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

“Vampires bore a grudge longer than any technically living creatures, and whenever they were in a bad temper, they expressed themselves through murder.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale

“I will not hang back here in Alicante while Magnus is in danger. Go without me, and you disrespect our parabatai oaths, you disrespect me as a shadowhunter, and you disrespect the fact that this is my battle too.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire