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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

“Sometimes the newly Marked go into shock. The good news is, if this happens to you, you are unlikely to notice, because you will be in shock.”

Cassandra Clare book The Shadowhunter's Codex

Source: The Shadowhunter's Codex

“No. You don't get to call me Izzy, you don't send me letters, you don't follow me into dark corridors and try to save me from rats."
"Trust me, we see a rat, it's every man for himself.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: The Evil We Love

“Eggs," said Henry dreamily, looking at his plate. "I do love eggs. I could eat them all day.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“You're not so bad. You'll get there. You should have seen Alec do flips at first. I think he kicked himself in the head once.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“You called me and said you were home and wanted to go out for a pizza."
"I did? What time is it?"
"Time for pizza," [Catarina] replied.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: The Fall of the Hotel Dumort

“Feeling this way was a particular kind of horror, having the emotions without the memories.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy

“Heroes aren't always the ones who win. They're the ones who lose, sometimes. But they keep fighting, they keep coming back. They don't give up. That's what makes them heroes.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Clary Fray, to Emma Carstairs, pg. 95
Variant: Heroes aren't always the ones who win. They're the ones who lose, sometimes. But they keep fighting, they keep coming back. They don't give up. That's what makes them heroes.
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Heavenly Fire (2014)

“What is Aldous capable of?"
"Aldous is two thousands years old. He's capable of anything."
"Aldous Nix is two thousands years old?"
"So, I've heard. He doesn't invite me to his birthday parties.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: The Rise of the Hotel Dumort

“When one steals a flying balloon and animates it to fly over Paris, one should, ideally, have some idea how said balloon normally works.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: The Runaway Queen

“Fortunate is the one who knows the name of their heart. They are the ones whose hearts are never truly lost. They can always call their heart back home.
Do you remember the name of your heart, Simon Lewis?”
“I think so,” Simon whispered.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: Bitter of Tongue

“There must always be a first," said Jem. "It is not easy to be first, and it is not always rewarding, but it is important.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“It's because you're too scared to tell anyone who you really love. Love makes us liars.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“Will: "You are not really dying, are you?"

Jem: "So they tell me."

Will: "I am sorry."

Jem: "No. Don’t be ordinary like that. Don’t say you’re sorry. Say you’ll train with me."

Will: "I’ll train with you.”

Cassandra Clare

“Mundane humans create distinctions between themselves, distinctions that seem ridiculous to any Shadowhunter. Their distinctions are based on race, religion, national identity, any of a dozen minor and irrelevant markers. ~ Valentine”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“Don't roll your eyes. It punctures my dramatic moment. I want my dramatic moment unpunctured.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

“But Jocelyn Morgenstern was not the kind of woman who wept, not the kind of woman who broke, or Valentine would have broken her long since.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: The Last Stand of the New York Institute

“My first album will be titled”

Cassandra Clare book The Shadowhunter's Codex

Source: The Shadowhunter's Codex

“She'd cried loudly enough that the man sitting across from her had offered her a tissue, and she'd screamed, what do you think you're looking at jerk? At him, because that was what you did in New York. After that she felt a little better.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“With a sigh of relief, Clary glanced back over her shoulder. Magnus was standing at the door to the cottage, his arms folded across his chest. Catching her eye, he grinned and dropped one eyelid in a single, glittering wink.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“I'm not sure there's such thing a thing as a normal life.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“i would say it was nice to meet you, but the fact is it wasnt. in fact, it was quite awkward.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“I would die for you. You know that. I would die without you. If it were not for you, I would be dead a hundred times over these past five years.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“Tobias loved her more than he’d loved anything—his family, his duty, even himself. There, perhaps, the Herondale blood ran true.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: The Lost Herondale

“There was no way possible [the queen] could have done all of the things the pamphleteers claimed. The crimes were too gross, too immoral and far too physically challenging. Magnus himself had never attempted half of them.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: The Runaway Queen

“I always need your strength, Alec”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“Don't screech like that. You'll wake the dead." - Jace - The Mortal Instruments - City Of Bones”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Variant: Don't screech like that. You'll wake the dead.
Source: City of Bones

“You're quite wrong, you know. I am the most permanent person that you will eve meet," said Magnus, his voice breathless with laughter and his eyes stung a little by tears. "It is only that it never makes a difference.”

Cassandra Clare The Bane Chronicles

Source: The Bane Chronicles

“Julian: “Wikipedia knows about everything. It might be run by warlocks.”
Emma: “You think that’s what they do all day in the Spiral Labyrinth? Run Wikipedia?”
Julian: “I admit it seems like a letdown.”

Cassandra Clare book Lord of Shadows

Source: Lord of Shadows

“I think he's jealous.”

Cassandra Clare

“I was going to put what birthday it was on the sign," he said, "but Jace said that after twenty, you're just old, so it doesn't matter anyway."
Jace stopped with his fork halfway to his mouth.
"I said that?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“Belatedly, Clary recalled something. "I thought you guys said onlyof the vampire bikes could fly?"… [Jace:]"Only some of them can!" "How did you know this was one of them?" "I didn't!" he shouted gleefully…”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“He had never felt entirely comfortable around Raphael. Raphael seemed to him like Loki or some other trickster God, sometimes working for good and sometimes for evil, but always in his own interests.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“Whatever the Clave was discussing, the Council meeting was dragging on brutally late. “But he knows New York. He doesn’t know Alicante—”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“Some Laws were meant to be broken.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“I will always look to you for light”

Cassandra Clare

Source: Nothing but Shadows

“If there was an arrow speeding toward Will, I would be bound by oath to step in front of it.'
'Handy, that,' said Will.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“That sounds almost practiced, James Carstairs. How many girls have you made swoon with that observation?”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“You ate something yesterday. You sure?"asked Simon
Jace shrugged."Well, I wouldnt swear on a stack of Bibles. I think it was yesterday, though.”

Cassandra Clare

“Oh, Simon, Simon, Simon,” said Jace. “You may not remember, but that’s kind of our thing.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: The Whitechapel Fiend

“Check you out,' said Magnus. 'My famous boyfriend, inspiration to the masses.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: Born to Endless Night

“Uh, Magnus has a boyfriend,” said Simon.

There was a frightening glint in Julie’s eye. “There are some mountains you still want to climb, even though there are ‘No Trespassing’ signs up.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: Born to Endless Night

“There was a brief pause for them to evaluate the full horror of the situation. Magnus. personally, was in horror up to his elbows.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: What Really Happened in Peru

“Trains are great dirty smoky things," said Will. "You won't like it."
Tessa was unmoved. "I won't know if I like it until I try it, will I?"
"I've never swam naked in the Thames, but I know I wouldn't like it.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“Clary curled up on the ground seeing in front of her not the shell of a destroyed town but the eyes of the brother and the sister that she would never have.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“Will stared down at his hands. "My whole life wrecked, destroyed…"

"You're seventeen," Magnus said. "You can't have wrecked a life you've barely lived.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“It’s okay,” said Alec. “I once walked in on you and Isabelle. I guess turnabout’s fair play.” He frowned. “Although you two were in my room at the time, so actually I think you still owe me.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: Born to Endless Night