Cassandra Clare: Likeness (page 7)

“It was strange how your world could shift on its axis and everything you trusted could invert itself in what seemed like no time at all.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

World , Time

“It is always better to live the truth than to live a lie. And that lie would have kept him alone forever. He may have had nearly nothing for 5 years, but now he can have everything. A boy who looks like that… Magnus.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Truth , Lie , Boy

“Being sixteen forever sounded good until you really thought about it. Then it didn't seem like such a great prospect.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“He has many things I haven’t got,” said Jace. “Like nearsightedness, bad posture, and an appalling lack of coordination.”
-Jace about Simon, pg. 331-”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“That you freed a possible criminal by trading away your brother to a warlock who looks like a gay sonic the Hedgehog and dresses like the childcatcher from.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Clary, Isabelle, Jace, and Simon, pg. 150
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)
Context: "Traded him for Alec," Clary said.
"Not permanently."
"No," said Jace. "Just for a few hours. Unless I don't come back. In which case, maybe he does get to keep Alec. Think of it as a lease with an option to buy."
"Mom and Dad won't be pleased if they find out."
"That you freed a possible criminal by trading away your brother to a warlock who looks like a gay Sonic the Hedgehog and dresses like the Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?" Simon inquired. "No, probably not."

“Kyle want to be a rockstar. I think hes working the one-name thing. Like Rihanna."
"I have no idea what you're talking about.”

Cassandra Clare

Idea , Thinking

“I didn't know you were bringing the mundane." His blue eyes flicked uneasily over Simon.
"That's what I like about you people," said Simon. "You always make me feel so welcome.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

People , Feeling

“How are you feeling?"
"Like someone massaged me with a cheese grater."
-Clary & Simon, pg.297-”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

Feeling

“Will spread his arms wide. On his knees, grinning like a demon, blood dripping from his mouth, he barely looked human himself. “Come and get me.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“Jace, on the other hand, looked like the sort of boy who'd come over to your house and burn it down for kicks.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

Boy , Housing

“Hold on to me," Alec said, and Magnus gave him the sort of smile that made Alec feel like someone had taken an apple corer to his heart and tried to dig out the center.
“I always do, Alexander,” he said. “I always do.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Smile , Feeling , Heart

“Trust. It is like placing a blade in someone's hand and setting the very point to your heart.”

Cassandra Clare The Bane Chronicles

Source: The Bane Chronicles

Heart

“The weapons room looked exactly the way something called "the weapons room" sounded like it would look.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

Way

“She had made the choice for him - in a moment of flight and panic, but she had made it - not realizing that her Jace would rather die than be like this, and that she'd been not so much saving his life as damning him to an existence he would despise.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Life

“Anything?" She laughed. "Like what kind of anything did you want?"
"Well, when I was five, I wanted to take a bath in spaghetti."
-Clary & Jace, pg.310-”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“If you don’t go after Luke,” Clary said, enunciating very clearly, “I, personally, will kill you.”
For a moment Jocelyn looked astonished. Then she smiled. “Well,” she said, “if you put it like that.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Smile , Personality

“… As could the sarcasm in her voice. "yes, she's bleeding to deat Lu upstairs, but i thought I'd avoid telling you right away, because I like to draw the suspense out.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Variant: Yes, she's bleeding to death upstairs, but I thought I'd avoid telling you right away, because I like to draw the suspense out.
Source: City of Fallen Angels

Drawing

“How she still thought of Max every day and it was like someone had emptied her lungs of air, and she would catch at her heart, afraid she was dying.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Heart

“Picture this," said Magnus. "Me with a little monkey friend. I could teach him tricks. I could dress him in a cunning jacket. He could look just like me! But more monkey-shaped.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: What Really Happened in Peru

“It smells like heartbreak in here,” said Jace.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire