Cassandra Clare citations

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“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.”