Cassandra Clare: Likeness

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“She set you down on the floor and you started ranging around, picking things up, pulling my cats tail- you screamed like a banshee when the cat scratched you, so I asked your mother if youpart banshee. She didn't laugh."
-Magnus to Clary, pg.228-”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“Despite my staggering good looks, you actually don't like me that way…" (Jace)”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“When a decision like that is made by a government, it emboldens those who are already prejudiced to speak their deepest thoughts of hate. They assume they are simply brave enough to say what everyone really thinks.”

Cassandra Clare book Lord of Shadows

Source: Lord of Shadows

“She had always wanted a brother. And she had one now. Sebastian. It was like always wanting a puppy and being a hellhound instead.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“Why should I tell you everything about how I feel when you never tell me anything? It's like banging my head on a wall, except at least if I were banging my head on a wall, I'd be able to make myself stop. - Jace Wayland.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Jace and Clary, pg. 244
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)
Context: "I wish I could hate you. I want to hate you. I try to hate you. It would be so much easier if I did hate you. Sometimes I think I do hate you and then I see you and I-"
"And you what?"
"What do you think? Why should I tell you everything about how I feel when you never tell me anything. It's like banging my head on a wall, except at least if I were banging my head on a wall, I'd be able to make myself stop."

“You’re attacking that one like a wolverine.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“Rocking back and forth, she clutched the sword like it was the only thing she had ever loved, and let the blood spill down instead of tears.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“It was like a bad movie, except he didn't actually twirl his mustache.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Jace to Clary, pg. 122
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)

“Well you can go ahead and hand your head out the window if you feel like it"

"I'm a werewolf not a golden retriever”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Clary and Luke, pg. 415
Variant: "Well, you can go ahead and hang your head out of the car window if you feel like it."
Luke laughed. "I'm a werewolf, not a golden retriever."
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

“Clary wondered what exactly peanut-fish-olive-tomato soup tasted like.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“My parabatai, he loved like few ever could love, with all and everything. I see you are like that too; it burns more brightly in you than the fire of Heaven.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“Isabelle!” Simon called. “Stop throwing clothes at me! Just because you’re a Shadowhunter and I’m a vampire doesn’t mean we can never happen. Our love is forbidden like the love of a shark and a—and a shark hunter. But that’s what makes it special.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“You know how the bonds of family are, my lady… They cling as tightly as vines. And sometimes, like vines, they cling tightly enough to kill.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes