Cassandra Clare: Quotes about love (page 11)

“Magnus thought of James Herondale, burning up with too much light, too much love, too much, too much- while the boy in the portrait was as lovely as a dying poet, with the fragile beauty of a candle about to gutter out.”

“You don't understand,' she said, and there was a puzzling trace of resentment in her voice. 'Children never do. The love a parent has for a child, there's nothing else like it. No other love so consuming.”

“Love makes liars of us all.”

“Was it better to think you had lost everything, and to start over? Or easier to know that the people you loved were alive, even if you could never see them again?”

“You no longer need other people in your life once you have found your true love.”

“For the first time, he looked at her, and she wasn’t a stranger, she was Clary—his friend. His family. The girl he’d sworn always to protect. The girl he loved as fiercely as he loved himself.”

“And if there were two things he believed were limitless, it was love and imagination.”

“We were once getting married. And I have loved you all this time- a century and a half. -Jem”

“It's hard to believe how much light you cand find in the darkness, when you have someone who loves you.”

“Our love is forbidden like the love of a shark and a—and a shark hunter. But that’s what makes it special.”

“People fell in love, and lost, and moved on. He didn’t know why he couldn’t. He didn’t know why he didn’t even want to. All he knew was that whatever he had to owe to Hell or Heaven for this chance, he was going to make it count.”

“Their beauty had always seemed to him like the beauty of pressed flowers-lovely, but dead.”

“We all must sacrifice for love”

“Why do you tell me you love me only when you're drunk or dreaming? she asked. I have awful timing, said Simon”

“The truth is that I love Simon like I should love you, and I wish that he was my brother and you weren't." - Clary”

“The Will I fell in love with, she almost said."And be Will," she finished instead. "Or I shall hit you with my umbrella.”

“To love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be destroyed.”

“It was a sort of love few other people could understand. It was total and it was overwhelming and it could be cruel.”

“The Herondales are a rather infamous line, as you probably know. Many of them heroes, some of them traitors, so many of them brash, wild creatures consumed by their passions, whether it be love or hate.”