Cassandra Clare citations

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“Because viewing my naked chest has caused many women to seriously injure themselves stampeding to get to me.”

“Everyone is afraid of something. We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people because we love them. We fear dying because we value being alive. Don't wish you didn't fear anything. All that would mean is that you didn't feel anything.”

“Not everyone wants you all the time, Jace," he said.
"Don't be ridiculous.”

“Has anyone seen Church? I think Zachariah just stole our cat. I swear I saw him putting Church in the backseat of a car.”

“Oh, come on," Clary said. "You're a vampire, not Spider-Man.”

“For that was love, wasnt it--to burn bright in someone else's eyes?”

“Love didn't make you weak, it made you stronger.”

“You're my sister," he said finally. "My sister, my blood, my family. I should want to protect you"- he laughed soundlessly and without any humor- "to protect you from the sort of boys who want to do with you exactly what I want to do.”

“Unrequited love is a ridiculous state, and it makes those in it behave ridiculously.”

“No, i mean enterprising." said Will. "When I mean morally deficient, I say, `Now, that is something i would have done´”

“Their grandchildren had reminded Will of the song about demon pox he had taught them- when they were much too young, Tessa had always thought- and that they had all memorized. They sang it all together and out of tune, scandalizing Sophie.”

“Everything that happens to you matters to me.”

“I love you; I love you and I don’t care that you’re my sister; don’t be with him, don’t want him, don’t go with him. Be with me. Want me. Stay with me.
I don’t know how to be without you.”

“Magnus raised his head and looked up and over at Alec; it was a look that made Clary flush and glance away. There was so much love in it, mixed with exasperation and pride and despair. It was an unguarded look, and it felt wrong to see it.”

“A sort of good-bye without saying good-bye," he said. "It is a reference to a passage in the Bible. 'And Mizpah, for he said, the Lord watch between me and thee when we are absent one from another.”

“He understands why people hold hands: he’d always thought it was about possessiveness, saying. But it’s about maintaining contact. It is about speaking without words. It is aboutand.”

“Was that Will?" she said finally.
Henry arched one ginger eyebrow. "Perhaps he's been kidnapped and replaced by an automaton," he suggested. "It seems possible…"
For once Charlotte could only find herself in agreement.”

“This one incident I will not allow you to shrug off!"
"I wasn't planning to," Jace said. "I can't shrug anything off. My shoulder's dislocated."
-Hodge & Jace, pg.296-”

“Weapons, when they break and are mended, can be stronger at the mended places. Perhaps hearts are the same.”

“He remembered Tessa telling him that Hell was cold, and he fought back the odd urge to smile at the memory. They'd been running for their lives, she ought to have been terrified, and there she had been, telling him about thein precise American tones.”

“The girl behind the scrawled letters. I loved you from the moment I read them. I love you still.” - Will Herondale”

“You serve a greater cause. Your life is not yours to throw away (Magnus Bane)”

“You know what the worst thing I can imagine is? Simon had said. Not trusting someone I love.”

“If there was one thing she was learning from all this, it was how easy it was to lose everything you had always thought you'd have forever.”

“Well, there aren’t any graves in mundane wedding ceremonies,” said Tessa. “Though your ability to quote the Bible is impressive. Better than my aunt Harriet’s.”
“Did you hear that, James? She just compared us to her aunt Harriet.”

“You know, when someone prefers their own brother over you, it isn't a confidence booster.”

“Jace hated it when other people were worried on his behalf. It made him feel like maybe there really was something to worry about.”

“Humans were so stupid. They had something so precious, and they barely safeguarded it at all. They threw away their lives for money, for packets of powder, for a stranger's charming smile.”

“Jealousy is such an ugly emotion.”