Cassandra Clare Quotes

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“I've always been happy with you," he said. "But I never thought I deserved it."
"And now you do?"
"And now the feeling's gone," he said. "All I know is that I love you and for the first time, that's good enough.”

“It's all right. It doesn't matter what you do. We're dreaming, you know.”

“Has there ever been an Inquisitor who didn't die a horrible death?" Simon wondered out loud. " It's like being the drummer in Spinal Tap.”

“jace's clothes had been clean, stylish, ordinary. Sebastian had been wearing a long black wool trench coat that had looked expensive.
Like an evil Burbeery ad, Simon said when she was done.”

“Will interrupted. "Henry," he said, "you're on fire. You do know that, don't you?”

“I don't see why its taking so long," Maryse was saying to Magnus "is that normal?"
"What's not normal is the discount I'm giving you."Magnus tapped the heel of his boot against the wall. "Normally I charge twice this much”

“You think that's the solution to everything, don't you, Bane? Drinking and dancing and making love… but I tell you this, something is coming, and we'd be fools to ignore it."
"When have I ever claimed not to be a fool?”

“It will bring you light even among the darkest shadows of this world and others”

“I don't carol, said Simon. I'm Jewish. I only know the dreidel song.”

“Clary and Simon continued to stare judgmentally. It made Simon very happy. Judging people together was an essential part of best friendship.”

“That's what happens when you fall. Everything that was bright about you becomes dark. As brilliant as you once were, that's how evil you become. It's a long way to fall”

“I am a demon hunter. Clearly, I am not afraid of the dark.”

“It was like I saw your soul in the notes of the music. And it was beautiful.”

“Our fathers were demons,' Catarina said. 'Our mothers were heroes.”

“There were impressive stone paths and benches and even a statue of an angel that gave Simon nervous fits, since he was a Doctor Who fan. The angel wasn’t weeping, exactly, but it looked too depressed for Simon’s liking.”

“Are you threatening to kidnap me?"
"If you want to look at it that way," Jace said, "yes.”

“He was staring straight ahead, still breathing hard.
“I have something I want to give you.”
“I gathered that.”
At that he jerked his gaze back to hers and almost reluctantly grinned.
“Not that.”

“Magnus noticed Maryse and Robert, who did not have the best relationship and hardly ever spoke to each other, having a brief whispered consultation about what YouTube might be.”

“Let's face it. My career is now professional vampire.”

“and a rather controversial one for birth control that had nevertheless quickly become the most often used rune in the lexicon.”

“nothing ventured, nothing gained.”

“[…] He tasted like snowflakes and wine, like winter and Will and London.”

“First, the candy and flowers, then the apology letters, then the ravenous demon hordes. In that order." -Jace Wayland”

“Give me the baby,” Maryse said jealously. “You’ve had him for four whole minutes, Clarissa.”

“I knew a girl, once, immortal like me-"

"And she was with someone mortal?" said Alec. "What happened?"

"He died," Magnus said. There was a finality to the way he said it that spoke of a deeper grief than words could paint.”

“I would leave at once, but it would be cruel to abandon a lady in a foreign land with a maniac.”

“No one told you to call your band Salacious Mold, my friend."
"We're Millennium Lint now," Simon protested”

“She could understand suddenly why people talked about passion as fire: She felt as if they had caught aflame and were burning like the dry Malibu hills, about to become ashes that would mix together forever.”

“What is one person's pleasure is another's poison….”

“Alec said you do that," said Jace. "Deflect questions about yourself with jokes.”

“Memories did one no good, not when one knew the truth in the present”

“It doesn’t change what we are to each other. It’s like there’s always been a piece of my soul missing, and it’s inside you, Clary.”

“True. I'd always hoped that when I finally said 'I love you' to a girl, she'd say 'I know' back, like Leia did to Han in Return of the Jedi.”

“He smiled at two people walking by: a tall, good-looking boy with a streak of white in his dark hair and a brunette girl whose eyes were shaded by sunglasses. They ignored him. But”

“… If you'd like to go back in there and try kicking him, I recommend aiming upward and a bit to the left”

“So I lied to you last night. I said that I just wanted one night with you. But I want every night with you.”

“I have been a friend to Shadowhunters. I know many of your families, going back for hundreds of years."
"There is nothing we can do to correct the questionable judgments of our ancestors," Lucian said.
Magnus hated this guy.”

“Time was something that moved in fits and starts for Magnus, dissipating like mist or dragging like chains, but when Alec was here, Magnus’s time seemed to fall into an easy rhythm with Alec’s, like two heartbeats falling into sync.”

“That’s why girls have boyfriends. So you have someone to take you to boring functions.”

“I was looking for Simon."
Jordan squinted at her. "It's two in the morning."
She shrugged. "He's a vampire."
"But I'm not.”

“You cannot save every fallen bird," said Woolsey.
"One will do," said Magnus.”

“Vows of friendship and love are stronger”

“He thought of his remembrance of Jordan, thought of how it hurt to even look at Isabelle and Clary. Without memory, they were lost. And nobody wanted someone they loved to be lost.”

“"A picnic? It's a little late for Central Park, don't you think? It's full of-"
He waved a hand. "Faeries. I know."
"I was going to say muggers," said Clary. "Though I pity the mugger who goes after you."”

“Who said we were owed happiness?”

“You can see where it was, years ago. Like an old woman who was once beautiful, but time has taken her beauty away.”

“Far below ran the silver ribbon of the East River, braceleted by shining bridges, flecked by boats as small as flyspecks, splitting the shining banks of light that were Manhattan and Brooklyn on either side.”

“Simon’s love life was complicated, but there was a pang, just for a moment, for this woman talking graphic novels with him.
Ah, well. Tessa Gray, foxy nerd, was probably dating someone already.”

“He saved your life,” Clary pointed out.
“Details,” said Simon dismissively.”