Cassandra Clare citations

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“Tea. I find that both settles the stomach and concentrates the mind. Wonderful drink, tea.”

“Oh, the universe had outdone herself. The universe would be send flowers.”

“One can give up many things for love, but should not give up oneself”

“Do you ever feel like screaming?' Clary asked him [Jace].
'Some of the time.”

“"Was it weird hearing from Jace? I mean, since you found out…"
"Yes? Since I found out what? That he's a killer transvestite who molests cats?"
"No wonder that cat of his hates everyone."”

“If you don't want them to find you, changing your last name seems a fairly elementary first step. Trust me, I'm an expert. I've watched a lot of spy movies.”

“I thought you hated demons. Now you use them like servants. The Ravener, the Drevak demons, Agramon-they‘re your. Guards, butler-personal chef, for all I know.”
-Jace to Valentine, pg.260”

“They were frightening enough, but Tessa could not help but feel that if Will were there, he would have commented that they looked like turnips, and perhaps made up a song about it.”

“Through many waters borne, brother, I am come to thy sad grave, that I may give these last gifts to the dead. Forever and ever, brother, hail. Forever and ever, farewell.”

“Beautiful girls should know how to defend themselves against the advances of gentlemen.”

“Magnus did not have enormous respect for the Law, but if he was breaking it he wanted to look good doing it.”

“I hate people forcing me to talk about my feelings,” said Alec.”

“He speaks of you only with the greatest pride, Will”

“… one could not be truly lost if one knew one's own heart. But I fear I may be lost without knowing yours.”

“The rules are the rules for a reason. Being a Shadowhunter, a good one, is about more than just training fourteen hours a day and knowing sixty-five ways of killing a man with salad tongs.”

“You're killing me because you want me to give a message to God for you?" Jace shook his head, the point of the blade scraping across his throat. "You're crazier than I thought”

“We can be cruelest to those who remind us of ourselves.” “Ty”

“"You disappear so completely into your head sometimes. I wish I could follow you."
You do. You live in my head all the time.”

“Shadowhunters don't say good-bye, not before a battle. Or good luck. You must behave as if return is certain, not a matter of chance”

“Their closeness wouldn't break, but it would bend and stretch into a new shape.”

“I've been thinking of installing a train in my house. It could bring me shrimp crackers from the kitchen.”

“There might be a God, Clary, and there might not, but I don't think it matters. Either way, we're on our own.”

“No one can live with nothing.”

“Hail and Farewell, my brother.”

“What would you prefer? 'What did the Count eat today, children? One helpless villager, two helpless villagers, three helpless villagers….”

“Go to faeries for gossip about vampires, to werewolves for gossip about faeries, and do not gossip about werewolves, because they try to bite your face off: that was Magnus's motto.”

“… love given without free will or truthfulness wasn't love at all.”

“Wasn't it? Is loyalty still a commendable quality when it is misdirected?”

“He lifted the violin to his shoulder then, and raised the bow. And he played.”