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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 thought you were dead,” she went on. “I saw you fall down, and—I thought you were dead.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“Your angel cannot protect you against that which neither god nor the devil had made”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“You hope Raphael survives this?" Luke said."Come on- how many people has he killed?
Magnus turned cold eyes on him. "Who among us has bloodless hands? What did you do, Lucian Graymark, to gain yourself a pack- two packs- of werewolves?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“You should see his older brother,” said Jem. “Makes Gabriel look sweeter than gingerbread. Hates Will even more thanGabriel, too, if that’s possible.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“I love you," he said.
"I don't say it often enough. I love you.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Variant: I love you too, he said. God, I love you, Isabelle.
Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“There was something about having someone care about you like that that made you feel like you could never be totally alone.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“Your heart is a weapon the size of your fist. “God”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

“Lust," she said. "Lust is a deadly sin."
"And spanking."
"I think that falls under lust."
"I think it should have its own category." said Jace”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“It is easier to confront a threat as a mass, a group, not individuals who must be evaluated one by one…”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“If You don't give readers what they want, they'll be mad at you. If you give them what they do want, they'll be even more mad at you.”

Cassandra Clare The Mortal Instruments

Source: The Mortal Instruments

“I wish I was close to Jace Herondale," Julie sighted. "He is so gorgeous."
"He is foxier than a fox fur in a fox hole on fox hunting day," Beatriz agreed dreamily.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy

“Simon bristled. She wasn’t his Isabelle, not anymore. He wondered if she ever truly had been. Isabelle didn’t seem like the type of girl to belong to someone. It was one of the things he liked best about her.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: The Lost Herondale

“Aline: "He's cute, for a Downworlder"
Sebastian: "You'll have to forgive her; she has the face of an angel and the manners of a Moloch demon”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“it was books that made me feel that perhaps i was not completely alone”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Variant: It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.
Source: Clockwork Prince

“One can love two children. But your heart can be given romantic love to only a single other, said Woolsey.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“He played of love and loss and years of silence, words unsaid and vows unspoken, and all the spaces between his heart and theirs…”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“He will get through this, even if he thinks he won't.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“History, the way the teachers liked it, was a racetrack, a straight shot from start to finish line; life itself was more of a maze.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: The Evil We Love

“… there was no spell to cure a broken heart that did not also destroy that heart's capacity for love forever.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: The Midnight Heir

“Every time I annoy him, he retreats into his No Mundanes Allowed tree house.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Simon to Clary, pg. 151
Variant: Every time I annoy him, he retreats into his No Mundanes Allowed tree house.
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)

“If one could look this fabulous, one had an obligation to.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: The Runaway Queen

“Grief makes you feel alone, but you're not. I know you don't believe in-in religion-the same way I do, but you can believe you're surrounded by people who love you, can't you?”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“Magnus held up a warning finger. "Don't overstep yourself, biscuit," he said, and moved past them, disappearing into the crowd around the portal.
"Biscuit?" said Simon.
"Believe it or not, he's called me that before," Clary said.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“Clary: Now that I'm in your mind, want to see some mental pictures of Jace?
Simon: I heard that and NO… You've seen him naked?
Clary: Well not entirely but-
Simon: Enough”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“It was sometimes inconvenient to have the gold-green, slit-pupilled eyes of a cat, but this was usually easily hidden with a small glamour, and if not, well, there were quite a few ladies-and men-who didn't find it a drawback.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: What Really Happened in Peru

“The boy was standing alone as though the broken glass all around him were a shining sea and he were an island.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: The Midnight Heir

“I was Marked by a very cute boy with terrible impulse control. I don't remember because I was basically unconscious but everyone was mad at him when I woke up. The end, love Clary.”

Cassandra Clare book The Shadowhunter's Codex

Source: The Shadowhunter's Codex

“And very amusing it is to watch,” said Jem. “Did you know you twitch your nose when you sleep, like a rabbit?”
“I do not,” she said, with a whispered laugh.- In my dreams”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Chapter 17. deleted scene- Clockwork Prince

“The corner of his mouth quirked up suddenly.
“What?” Clary demanded. “Is something funny?”
“ ‘Flying death turtle’?” he said. “Only you.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“It is stupid to hope, but sometimes hope is all you have.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Variant: It was stupid to hope, she knew. But sometimes hope was all you had.
Source: City of Lost Souls

“It was good to be here with Jem and Cecily an Charlotte, to be surrounded by their affection, but without her there would always be something missing, a Tessa-shaped part chiseled out of his heart that he could never get back.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“Would you like to meet him? I could summon him up in a trice of you like. Being a warlock, and all.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“I'm the one who's always been there for you… not him!”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Variant: These pictures are my heart. And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you.
Source: Lady Midnight

“My head feels round," Simon said sadly. "So round.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“Nearly unable to bear the thought of how much he needed her quiet strength, he closed his eyes and leaned his forehead against the cold glass.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“I love your name. I love the sound of it”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“Henry's breath hissed out through his teeth. That ba-bad man, he finished, with a quick glance at Cecily, who rolled her eyes.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“Ragnor's important business was probably getting together to write a burn book with Raphael. Magnus could see them now, sharing a bench and scribbling happily away about Magnus's stupid hair.”

Cassandra Clare The Bane Chronicles

Source: The Bane Chronicles

“Love and hate had their own secret languages, and Mark and Kieran were speaking in them now.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

“What is a Shadowhunter made of, if they desert their own, if they throw away a child’s heart like rubbish left on the side of the road? Tell me, Simon Lewis, if that is what Shadowhunters are, why would I wish to be one?”

Cassandra Clare

Source: Bitter of Tongue

“I am stronger when Tessa is here, you see. I told it to you," said Jem, still in the same soft voice.

At that, Will did duck his head so that Tessa could not see his eyes. "I see it," he said.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“What you're blaming yourself for is being who you are. And that's no one's fault and nothing you can change.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“Sometimes it's hard when you want to be like someone but you don't know how.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“This stupid weapons-shopping idea. Last time I take dating advice from Jace.” “You let Jace plan our date?”

Cassandra Clare

Source: Pale Kings and Princes

“Come with me."
"Come with you? To Pandemonium? To the Void? And here I thought that my invitation to summer in New Jersey was the worst I had ever received.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: The Rise of the Hotel Dumort