Cassandra Clare citations

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“There was something peculiarly gratifying about shouting in a blind rage until your words ran out. Of course, the aftermath was less pleasant. Once you'd told everyone you hated them and not to come after you, where exactly did you go?”

“He felt his heart, which no longer beat, contract, and he wondered if there was anything in the world as painful as not being able to protect the people you loved.”

“But am I clever and right or clever and wrong?”

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

“I think of myself as a freewheeling bisexual," added Magnus.
"Please never say those words in front of my parents," said Alec.”

“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.”

“The next thing I knew I was listening to five people shouting. What was that all about, anyway?”

“I dont know," said Simon, "it doesn't sound so bad to me. I'd rather have someone mess around inside my head than chop it off."
"Then you're a bigger idiot than you look.”

“very funny my sarcastic friend”

“there is a fine line between sarcasm and hostility, you seemed to have crossed it. What's up?”

“He had lost Will Herondale. And he did not know if he could ever get him back.”

“They had just showed up, Amatis had said. Which meant Simon had spent thenight at Isabelle's. She stared at him. He didn'tany different.”

“You asked me who I belong to. I belong to you.”

“Fiction is truth, even if it is not fact. If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your brain will live, but your heart will die.”

“You might want to put some clothes on' suggested Jace 'I'm all for the bra and panties look, but you don't want the Silent Brothers to die of excitement”

“Jace,” she said. “Why are you doing this to me?”

“Because you’re lying to me. And you’re lying to yourself.” Jace’s eyes were blazing, and even though his hands were stuffed into his pockets, she could see that they were knotted into fists.”

“Demon pox,' said Will with the satisfaction of the truly vindicated.”

“Not really, but after that I think about how I could kill him while he slept if I really wanted to, and then I feel better.”

“How could you be heartbroken and happy at the same time?”

“Hugo is a raven, and, as such he knows many things. I, meanwhile, am Hodge Starkweathe, a professor of history, as such, I do not know nearly enough.”

“Glory?…. Glory belongs to God alone.”

“Sebastian: YOU'RE Ragnor Fell the warlock?
Magnus: Well, I'm certainly not Ragnor Fell the exotic dancer”

“He was wearing a look that she found odd and compelling - that amusement that didn’t seem to pass beyond the surface of his features, as he found everything in the world both infinitely funny and infinitely tragic all at the same time.”

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

“Jem cried out with all his remaining strength. You cannot go where I am going! Nor would I want that for you!”

“Jem?" he said. 'It is you, James?'
'Who else?' Jem's voice.”

“Is your inner vampire different from your… outer vampire?'
'Definitely. He wants me to wear midriff-baring shirts and a fedora.'
'So your inner vampire is Magnus?”

“Honestly I don't know why i have these parties"

"Because of your cat"

"That's true. Chairman Meow deserves my every effort”

“and don’t start your own line of glitter and try to sell it at Sephora.”