Cassandra Clare Quotes (2041 quotes, page 35)

Variant: If I might make a suggestion,” said Will. “About twenty paces behind us, in the Council room, is Benedict. If you’d like to go back in there and try kicking him, I recommend aiming upward and a bit to the left—
Source: Clockwork Prince

“You are James Herondale, said Uncle Jem. As you always were. Part your mother, part your father, part yourself. I would not change any part of you if I could.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: Nothing but Shadows

Change , Parting

“There's always the dinner rolls," said Will, pointing to a covered basket. "Though I warn you, they're as hard as stones. You could use them to kill black beetles, if any beetles bother you in the middle of the night.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Night

“My favorite jacket is an emergency item. Much like myself, it is both snuggly and fashionable.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Fashion

“To love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be destroyed.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Jace to Clary, pg. 206
Variant: to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

Love

“Magnus knelt first. Clary would never have guessed that. Magnus was so proud, but then it was a pride that transcended the emptiness of gestures. She doubted it would shame him to kneel when it meant nothing to him.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“She smiled smugly. “We came to an agreement, the duck and I.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

Smile

“So, what are you?"
"What I am is someone who doesn't want you to jump out of the window. The rest are details.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: The Rise of the Hotel Dumort

“I will still be in some part the Jem you knew, and I will see you with the eyes of my heart.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Heart , Parting

“It's fascinating. You know all these words, and they’re all English, but when you string them together into sentences, they just don’t make any sense.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Variant: It’s fascinating. You know all these words, and they’re all English, but when you string them together into sentences, they just don’t make any sense.
Source: City of Fallen Angels

Sense

“To them, as to Magnus, time was like rain, glittering as it fell, changing the world, but something that could also be taken for granted.”

Cassandra Clare The Bane Chronicles

Source: The Bane Chronicles

World , Change , Time

“Life could not be entirely devoted to debauchery and monkeys. Magnus had to finance all the drinking somehow.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: What Really Happened in Peru

Life , Drink

“Sometimes she thought the only things she had faith in were revenge and Julian.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

Faith , Revenge

“Please tell me you did not bring me out here so you could tell me a very boring story about your sister.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Sister

“It was a sort of love few other people could understand. It was total and it was overwhelming and it could be cruel.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

Love , People , Understanding

“I thought you were dead."
Magnus smiled crookedly. "What, from that scratch?" He glanced down at the reddening jacket in Alec's hand. "Okay, a deep scratch. Like, from a really, really big cat.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Smile , Cats , Dead

“And tell them what?" Jace said witheringly. "That invisible people are bothering you? Trust me, little girl, the police aren't going to arrest someone they can't see”

Cassandra Clare The Mortal Instruments

Clary and Jace, pg. 44
The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)
Source: City of Bones / City of Ashes / City of Glass / City of Fallen Angels / City of Lost Souls
Context: "Do you want to tell me what this is about, or should I just call the police?"
"And tell them what?" Jace said witheringly. "That invisible people are bothering you? Trust me, little girl, the police aren't going to arrest someone they can't see."

People , Girl

“I’m not unsympathetic. But do you like me? Because this being gay business doesn’t mean you can just throw yourself at any guy and it’ll be fine because he’s not a girl. There are still people you like and people you don’t.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

People , Guy , Girl , Business

“A book that one has not read yet is always more exciting than a book one has memorized.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Books , Reading

“Jules: Why are you on the floor?
Emma: I've heard roling out of bed in the morning helps you build up resistance to surprise attacks.
Jules: Oh yeah? What does screaming "holy crap!" do?
Emma: That part's optional.”

Cassandra Clare book Lord of Shadows

Source: Lord of Shadows

Help , Parting

“It is unusual,” said Cristina, “for a revolution to call for fewer rights for people, not more.”

Cassandra Clare book Lord of Shadows

Source: Lord of Shadows

People

“How'd you get Magnus to let Jace leave?"
"Traded him for Alec," Clary said.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Clary, pg. 246-247
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)
Context: She was thinking of Simon, leaving for a house that no longer felt like home to him, of the despair in Jace's voice as he said I want to hate you, and of Magnus, not telling Jace the truth: that Alec did not want Jace to know about his relationship because he was still in love with him. She thought of the satisfaction it would have brought Magnus to say the words out loud, to acknowledge what the truth was, and the fact that he hadn't said them-had let Alec go on lying and pretending-because that was what Alec wanted, and Magnus cared about Alec enough to give him that. Maybe it was true what the Seelie Queen had said, after all: Love made you a liar.

“The Herondales are a rather infamous line, as you probably know. Many of them heroes, some of them traitors, so many of them brash, wild creatures consumed by their passions, whether it be love or hate.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: The Lost Herondale

Love , Hate , Passion

“He had been through a hundred heartbreaks, but he found himself afraid when he thought of Alexander Lightwood breaking his heart.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: What to Buy the Shadowhunter Who Has Everything

Heart

“Without conflict there is no plot, without hope there is no story”

Cassandra Clare

Hope

“There was a man once who said that mothers carry the key of our souls with them all our lives. But you threw mine away”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Soul

“Alec was closeted, shy, obviously insecure, and obviously hung up on his blond friend Trace Wayland.”

Cassandra Clare

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

“The best thing Valentine ever did for me was send me to you.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“You cannot save every fallen bird," said Woosley, leaning back against the wall and crossing his arms. "Even the handsome ones." "One will do," said Magnus, and, as Will was no longer within his sight, he let the front door fall shut.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Bird

“You ask a lot of questions, don't you?"
"My brother always says curiosity is my besetting sin.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

Question

“Go to Idris. You’re safer there, but don’t be trusting, and don’t let your guard down. I need you to live.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“They had met at a club fifteen years before, Etta and Magnus. He had convinced her to dance with him, and she said she had been in love by the end of the song. He told her he had been in love before the beginning.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: Saving Raphael Santiago

Love , Dance

“For a moment the garden, the noise, the stentch of blood and demon, vanished away, and he was alone in a soundless place with only Tessa. He wanted to run to her, wrap her in his arms. Protect her.

But it was Jem's place to do those things, not his.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“Because the world isn’t divided into the special and the ordinary. Everyone has the potential to be extraordinary. As long as you have a soul and free will, you can be anything, do anything, choose anything”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Variant: Because the world isn’t divided into the special and the ordinary. Everyone has the potential to be extraordinary. As long as you have a soul and free will, you can be anything, do anything, choose anything.
Source: City of Heavenly Fire

World , Soul

“I’ll never pause again, never stand still, till either death hath closed these eyes of mine, or fortune given me measure of revenge.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Death , Revenge

“She felt as if the world were tilting and she was clinging on helplessly, trying to keep from tumbling into a black abyss.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

World

“Sometimes,' Jem said, 'our lives can change so fast that the change outpaces our minds and hearts. It's those times, I think, when our lives have altered but we still long for the time before everything was altered.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel