Cassandra Clare: Quotes about love

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“After all, it was never Darnay he quoted, only Sydney, drunk and wrecked and dissipated. Sydney, who died for love.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“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.”

Cassandra Clare The Bane Chronicles

Source: The Bane Chronicles

“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.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“Love makes liars of us all.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Variant: Love makes you a liar.
Source: City of Ashes

“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?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

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

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“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.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: The Lost Herondale

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

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

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

Cassandra Clare

Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Princess

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

Cassandra Clare

Source: Pale Kings and Princes

“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

“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.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“We all must sacrifice for love”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

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

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“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”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

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

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

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

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Jace to Clary, pg. 206
Variant: to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

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

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

“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.”

Cassandra Clare

Source: The Lost Herondale