Cassandra Clare Quotes

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“I am, in the end, what you made me.”

“You're Valentine's son. I'm sure you're the one the Queen really wants to see. Besides, you're charming. Maybe not at the moment.”

“Because the world isn't divided into the special and the ordinary. Everyone has the potential to be extra ordinary.”

“I'm the warlock who's here to cure you. Didn't they tell you I was coming?"

"I know who you are, but…" Maia looked dazed. "You look so… so…”

“Patriotic?” Will looked smug. “I’ll tell you what’s patriotic,” he said. “In honor of my birthplace, I’ve the dragon of Wales tattooed on my—”

“I've never felt so… light.”

“Never doubt my weaseling abilities, Shadowhunter, for they are epic and memorable in their scope.”

“Don't sulk. For someone with all the grace and coordination of a pregnant wildebeest, you did great.”

“You never really hate anyone as much as someone you cared about once.”

“And I think that you do not understand that sometimes the only choice is between acceptance and madness.”

“She took out a shiny folded pamphlet, the kind they kept stacked in clear plastic stands in hospital waiting rooms. "How to Come Out to Your Parents," she read out loud. "LUKE. Don't be ridiculous. Simon's not gay, he's a vampire.”

“I think she just asked if she could touch my mango.”

“I know," he said, looking down at himself self-consciously. "I am not-I mean, I look-"
"Beautiful," she said, and she meant it. "You look beautiful, James Carstairs.”

“One finds nobility in the oddest places.”

“Some secrets, she thought, were better told; some were better left the burden of the carrier, that they might not cause pain to others.”

“If I made a joke about just dropping in, would you write me off as a cliche?”

“Their oldest child, James, had spoken laughingly about Will's unrelenting fear of ducks and his continual battle to keep them out of the pond at the family home in Yorkshire.”

“And when I saw him[my father] lying dead in a pool of his own blood, I knew then that I hadn't stopped believing in God. I'd just stopped believing God cared. There might be a God, Clary, and there might be not. Either way, we're on our own.”

“He taught me there's a place on a man's back where, if you sink a blade in, you can pierce his heart and sever his spine, all at once,' Sebastian had said. 'I guess we got the same birthday present that year, big brother,' Jace thought. 'Didn't we?”

“Her throat ached: adoration, heartbreak, in equal measure. “Kiss me,” she said. “Please.”

“Oh, he's rude to everyone," said Isabelle airily. "It's what makes him so damn sexy.”

“Most people are lucky to have even one great love in their life. You have found two.”

“I have a feeling you're right, Sherwin.'
'Simon. My name is Simon.”

“If there is a life after this one, he said, let me meet you in it, James Carstairs.”

“Straight people. Why can't they control themselves?”

“It's your gift, to see the beauty and the horror in ordinary things. It doesn't make you crazy, just different.”

“Only mundanes say they're sorry when what they mean is "I share your grief,"' Jace observed.”

“The angel brought you back."
"Because you asked him to. You could have anything alse in the world, and you asked for me."
"But I dont want anything else in the world. I love you. I would do it again. I would ask for you.”

“Get over here. Sheldon's had an idea."
"Who's Sheldon?", said Isabelle.”

“Do you even really know how vampires are made?'
'Well, when a mommy vampire and a daddy vampire love each other very much…”

“Half of your attention is better than all of anyone else's.”

“Is this one of those keep-your-friends-close-and-your-enemies-closer things?"
"I though it was keep your friends close so you have someone to drive the car when you sneak over to your enemy's house at night and throw up in his mailbox.”

“Miss," she gasped, and then her eyes went toWill. She clapped a hand over her mouth, turned, and bolted back into the house.
"Oh, dear," said Tessa.
"I have that effect on women," Will said.”

“Will looked up in apparent relief when Charlotte and Tessa came in. "Will," Charlotte said, "You remember Miss Gray?"
"My recollection of her," said Will, "is most vivid indeed.”

“Lightwoods,” Magnus said. “They always have to have the last word.”

“No one is ever the villain of their own story.”

“Magnus raised his hands above his head and clapped once. The room flooded with light. "You see? You think that would be possible without magic?

"Actually," replied Simon, "It is. If you watched infomercials you'd know that.”

“With Jace, you don't really get to choose your insulting nickname.”

“What did Isabelle want?" Jace asked.
Alec hesitated. "Isabelle says the Queen of the Seelie Court has requested an audience with us."
"Sure," said Magnus. "And Madonna wants me as a backup dancer on her next world tour.”

“When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, and then throw it in the face of the person who gave you the lemons until they give you the oranges you originally asked for.”

“One of the things he'd always loved about Clary was how easily caught up in her imagination she was, how easily she could wall herself away in illusory worlds of curses and princes and destiny and magic.”

“Love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything.”

“Family isn't blood. It's the people who love you. The people who have your back.”

“It wasn’t sexy,” he said.
“It was a little sexy,” Simon said…
“It wasn’t,” said Alec.
“I had some feelings,” said Simon.”

“So what's their plan, hitting Sebastian over the head with Jace until he passes out?”

“Do you have a lot of other profound thoughts like that? Blood is blood? A toaster is a toaster? A Gelatinous Cube is a Gelatinous Cube?”

“Tact is just lying for adults.”

“As long as everyone's wearing their own pants."
"I see I have come in on a fascinating moment in the conversation.”

“You promise." "I swear on the angel. The hell with that. I swear on us." "Why us?" "Because there isn't anything I believe in more.”