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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

“God, I hate rogue necromancers," said Magnus. "Why can't they just follow the rules?"
"Probably because the biggest rule is 'no necromancy'?" Emma suggested”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

“As Oscar Wilde once said, "To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune. To lose both looks like carelessness.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“Will looking after her, sighed. not for her, he said under his breath, though there was no one to hear him, for me…. And he leaned his head against the cold iron gate.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“It won't be pleasant."
"Nothing ever is.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“Magnus shrugged. "He also made inappropriate amorous advances to a startled grandmotherly sort selling flowers, an Irish wolfhound, and innocent hat stand in a dwelling he broke into, and myself.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: The Midnight Heir

“Coaxing drunken Shadowhunters into making fools of themselves was a favorite occupation among the Downworlders, and this performance had been a tremendous success.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: The Midnight Heir

“I was looking for the opposite, really -something that might put an end to being in love”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“Shouldn't we stand back to back or something?" "What? Why?" "I don't know. In movies that's what they do in this kind of… situation.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“Maybe by the time they were in their Silver Year, Master Rufus would communicate complicated theories of magic by the lifting of a single bushy eyebrow.”

Cassandra Clare book The Iron Trial

Source: The Iron Trial

“Magnus hoped if he ever went mad like that himself, so mad that he poisoned the very air round him and hurt everyone he came into contact with, that there would be someone ho loved him enough to stop him. To kill him, if it came to that.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: Saving Raphael Santiago

“And who are all these people? There weren't this many when I fell asleep."
Alfie shrugged, indicating that the universe was mysterious and nothing would ever be fully understood.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: The Rise of the Hotel Dumort

“No,” said Jace. “I think I’m better than everyone else. An opinion that has been backed up with ample evidence.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Variant: I think I’m better than everyone else. An opinion that has been backed up with ample evidence.
Source: City of Fallen Angels

“There are only four points of warmth and brightness, in the whole world, that burn fiercely enough for me to feel something like the person I was. Your mother, your father, Lucie, and you. You love, and tremble, and burn.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: Nothing but Shadows

“Then forget Gabriel. Is there a particular reason you keep biting vampires?"

Will touched the dried blood on his wrists, and smiled. "They don't expect it.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“Brown is a manly color”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“Cucumber and bergamot," Clary said. "Is there anything else you hate that I ought to know about?"

Jace looked at Dorothea over the rim of his teacup. "Liars," he said.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“I told you to wait,” he snapped at Alec.
“Don’t you ever do anything I tell you to?”
“Technically you didn’t actually say anything,”
Clary said. “You just gestured.”
“Gesturing counts,” Jace said. “I gesture
very expressively.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“But there were worse things than being left.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

“Baby?"
She perched beside him in the chair. "You're kidding me right?"
"I was trying it out, no?"
"no," she said firmly
Simon & Clary”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“Clary smiled at him with a warmth she didn’t feel.
“Sebastian says I can come with you.”
Jace raised his eyebrows.
“Matching haircuts for everyone?”
“I hope not,” said Sebastian. “I look terrible with curls.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“As his mother said, once you started worrying about the future, you started obsessing about the past.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“She felt as if she bled her regret and loneliness from her very pores, and yet she could not shape those feelings into any sentiment she could imagine her parents could bear reading.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“If you steal any of the books from the library, I will know, and you'll be sorry.
Jessamine Lovelace.”

Cassandra Clare book Lord of Shadows

Source: Lord of Shadows

“It was one of the few things he had to believe in, the possibility of beauty when faced with the reality of so much ugliness.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: The Last Stand of the New York Institute

“She said that you've break my heart”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“You said there was nothing in the world you wanted" The Queen's eyes glittered. "When you imagine your life without him, do you still feel the same?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“What are you thinking?"
"Just how different everything down there is now, you know, now that I can see."
"Everything down there is exactly the same," he said. "You're the one that's different.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“No real lady would let a dress that might have been worn by a stranger touch her skin.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“Brother Zachariah? When did he get hot?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“Anyone that looked like that wouldn't need to tie up girls and imprison them in order to get them to marry him”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“Did you know that a jiffy is an actual measurement of time? It’s a sixtieth of a second.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Malcolm Fade and Bat Velasquez, pg. 465
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Heavenly Fire (2014)
Context: "'How do you people stand snow?' he demanded.
"'You people'?" Bat bristled. 'Do you mean werewolves?'
'I mean East Coasters,' said Malcolm. 'Who would have weather if they could avoid it? Snow, hail, rain. I'd move to Los Angeles in a jiffy. Did you know that a jiffy is an actual measurement of time? It's a sixtieth of a second. You can't do anything in a jiffy, not really.'"

“I suppose we all lie to ourselves sometimes.”

Cassandra Clare

“I imagine that it will not be easy to persuade Mortmain into a bonnet," Magnus observed. "Though the color would be fetching on him."
Henry burst into laughter. "Very droll, Mr. Bane."
"Please, call me Magnus."
"I shall!”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“It is not easy to be different, and even less so to be unique. But I begin to think I was never meant for an easy road.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“I wouldn't call that an instrument of music," Ragnor observed sourly. "An instrument of torture, perhaps.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: What Really Happened in Peru

“He hadn’t stopped wanting love. He had simply, somehow, stopped looking.
He wondered if you could be exhausted without knowing it, if hope could be lost not all at once but could slip away gradually, day by day, and vanish before you ever realized.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: What to Buy the Shadowhunter Who Has Everything

“You're Clary Fray. You go charging into every situation without knowing how the hell it's going to turn out, and then you get through it on sheer guts and craziness.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“We are responsible for protecting Tessa!”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“You don't have to do this."
"I think I do," Julian said. "I remember making a vow to that affect."
"Whither thou goest, i will go, whatever stupid thing you do, i shall do also'." Emma said. "Was that the vow?”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

“Clary saw him take Mark's hand; he pressed his witchlight into the boy's palm, where it flickered, and then resumed its steady glow. 'Take this with you,' said Jace, 'for it can be dark in the land under the hill, and the years very long.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“Because in the end nothing is worse than seeing the fall of one you loved. It was somehow worse than losing a love. It made everything seem questionable. It made the past bitter and confused.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: The Fall of the Hotel Dumort

“And I also know that loving someone—even when it’s scary, even when there are consequences—is never the wrong thing to do.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: Pale Kings and Princes

“He was a vampire now. He was supposed to have eternity. But what he had was days.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“Alec took me by surprise”

Cassandra Clare

Source: What to Buy the Shadowhunter Who Has Everything

“I rather wonder what I am doing here. I enjoy city life, you know. The glittering lights, the constant companionship, the liquid entertainment. The lack of sudden monkeys.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: What Really Happened in Peru

“We are ever capable of change and ever capable of being our better selves”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“I’m not going to kiss you,” Simon said. “Ever.”

“I’ve never heard anyone say that before,” Jace mused. “It was a unique experience.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: The Fiery Trial

“The only way that we can protect each other is if we are together. If we face things together. If we trust each other.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls