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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

“We live and breathe words.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“It's not funny, Jace," Alec interrupted, starting to his feet. "Are you just going to let her stand there and call me names?"

"Yes," Jace said kindly. "It'll do you good-- try to think of it as endurance training.”

Cassandra Clare

“Lawful good to lawful evil!" said Simon, pleased.
"He's quoting Dungeons and Dragons," said Clary. "Ignore him.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“Sometimes one must choose whether to be kind or honorable," he said. "Sometimes one cannot be both.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“Did you just kiss me?" Will inquired.
Magnus made a slip-second decision. "No."
"I thought-"
"On occasion the aftereffects of the painkilling spells can result in hallucinations of the most bizarre sort."
"Oh," Will said. "How peculiar.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“Goodness," Tessa said to the back of his head. "If you keep seeing Six-Fingered Nigel like this, he'll expect you to declare your intentions.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“Still I pictured having you for fifty, sixty more years. I thought I might be ready then to let you go. But it's you, and I realize now that I won't be anymore ready to lose you then than I am right now. Which is not at all.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“It is not the same thing to be good and to be kind.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“He bent to put his cheek against hers. His breath against her ear made her shudder with each deliberately spoken word. "I have wanted to do this," he said, "every moment of every hour of every day that I have been with you since the day I met you.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“As far as I’m concerned, this is the worst thing that’s happened since I found out why Magnus was banned from Peru.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“So it's true. You can walk in sunlight. I thought perhaps it might have worn off."
"If I feel the urge to burst into flames, I'll let you know.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.
"It means that love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“The thing about the Mirror is that no one knows where it is. In fact, no one knows what it is.”
"It’s a mirror,” Simon said. “You know – reflective, glass. I’m just assuming.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“Missing, one stunningly attractive teenage boy. Answers to 'Jace' or 'Hot Stuff”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“Did Brother Zachariah just steal our cat?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“I keep thinking about blood. I dream about it. Wake up thinking about it. Pretty soon I'll be writing morbid emo poetry about it.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Simon to Clary, pg. 217
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)

“It isn't against the Law to be an idiot.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“Tessa touched his wrist lightly with her hand. "Be brave," she said. "It's not a duck, is it?”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“Look, did you ask me to come all the way uptown just so you could stare at me like I was something in a petri dish? Next time I'll send you a photo."
"And I'll frame it and put it on my nightstand," said Jace.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“Maybe that was why she couldn't cry, she realized, staring dry-eyed at the ceiling. Because what was the point in crying when there was no one there to comfort you? And what was worse, when you couldn't even comfort yourself?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“There are so many worse things than death. Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“You’re seventeen,” Magnus said. “You can’t have wasted a life you’ve barely lived.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“Do not seek revenge and call it justice.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“How to Come Out to Your Parents," she read out loud. "LUKE. Don't be ridiculous. Simon's not gay, he's a vampire.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Clary to Luke, pg. 213
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)

“You haven't broken his heart yet, have you?"
"No," Tessa said."I haven't broken his heart at all.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“Alec keeps sending me annoying photos. Lots of captions like Wish you were here, except not really.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“Astriola. That IS demon pox. You had evidence that demon pox existed and you didnt mention it to me! Et tu, Brute!' He rolled up the paper and hit Jem over the head with it.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“That sounds terrific. Just you, your comatose wife, your shell-shocked son, and you daughter who hates your guts. Not to mention that your two kids may be in love with each other. Yeah, that sounds like a perfect family reunion.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Clary, pg. 444
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

“He looks," Simon had once said to Isabelle, "like he's thinking about something deep and meaningful, but if you ask him what it is, he'll punch you in the face.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“So you're trying to make her happy despite the fact that the reason she's unhappy in the first place is you," said Simon, not very kindly. "That seems contradictory, doesn't it?"
"Love is a contradiction," said Jace.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“I can only assume," said Jace, "that mortal emotions amuse you because you have none of your own.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“Dudes," He said, "Do not follow other dudes to the bathroom."

Isabelle sighed. "Latent homosexual panic will do you in every time”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change -Clary Fray”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“Other crack teams get bat boomerangs and wall-climbing powers; we get Aquatruck.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“I'm afraid to answer that. I've heard that when I speak, it makes American women wish to strike me with umbrellas.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“You left me. You made a pet out of me, and then you left me. If love were food, I would have starved on the bones you gave me.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“It's Will," she said. "He's being absolutely ridiculous in the dining room."
Charlotte looked puzzled. "How is this different from him being totally ridiculous in the library or the weapons room or any of the other places he's usually ridiculous?”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“Magnus gazed dreamily in his direction. "You should leave him here. I could hang hats on him and things.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Variant: Nice, bah. He's gorgeous." Magnus gazed dreamily in his direction. "You should leave him here. I could hang hats on him and things.
Source: City of Glass

“They think they're better than everyone else."
"No," said Jace. "I think I'm better than everyone else. An opinion that has been backed up with ample evidence."
Kyle looked at Simon. "Does he always talk like this?"
"Yes.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“You don't get to decide," she said, "where I go, or when."
"I know." His voice was ragged. "I've always known that about you. I don't know why I had to fall in love with someone who's more stubborn than I am.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“I should have warned her about your habit of never doing what you're told." Jace squinted at her. "Are those Isabelle's clothes? They look ridiculous on you."

"I could point out that you burned my clothes." -Jace and Clary pg. 63”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“If there was such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Jace to Clary, pg. 232
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

“There are memories that time does not erase… Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“Brother Zachariah. Months January through December of the Hot Silent Brothers Calendar.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Isabelle Lightwood, about Brother Zachariah/Jem Carstairs, pg. 694
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Heavenly Fire (2014)