Cassandra Clare cytaty strona 3

„Mogłaby zamknąć oczy, udawać, że wszystko jest w porządku. Wiedziała jednak, że nie da się żyć z zamkniętymi oczami.”

Miasto kości

Cassandra Clare książka Miasto szkła

Miasto szkła

„Gdybyś był w połowie tak zabawny, za jakiego się uważasz, mój chłopcze, byłbyś dwa razy bardziej zabawny niż jesteś.”

„(…) bardzo łatwo jest stracić wszystko, co uważało się za dane na zawsze.”

If you were half as funny as you thought you were, my boy, you'd be twice as funny as you are. (ang.)
Miasto kości

„Miłośc czyni człowieka kłamcą”

Miasto kości

Cassandra Clare cytaty

„Kochać to niszczyć, być kochanym to zostać zniszczonym”

City of Bones

„A potem zrobił krok w powietrze, tak spokojnie, jakby schodził z ganku. Clary krzyknęła głośno, kiedy runął w dół jak kamień… I wylądował lekko na stopach, tuż przed nią. Clary wytrzeszczyła oczy i rozdziawiła usta, kiedy wstał z lekkiego przysiadu i uśmiechnął się do niej szeroko.
– Gdybym powiedział, że właśnie do was wpadłem, pewnie uznałabyś to za oklepany żart.”

Cassandra Clare książka Miasto popiołów

Miasto popiołów

To tłumaczenie czeka na recenzję. Czy to jest poprawne?

„„Trzeba zawsze uważać na książki”, powiedziała Tessa, „a to, co jest w nich, ponieważ słowa mają moc, by nas zmienić”.”

“Is standing by the window muttering about blood something he does all the time?"
"No, sometimes he sits on the couch and does it.”

Cassandra Clare: Cytaty po angielsku

“Ah,” said a voice from the doorway, “having your annual ‘everyone thinks Will is a lunatic’ meeting, are you?
“It’s biannual,” said Jem. “And no, this is not that meeting.”

Cassandra Clare książka Miasto popiołów

Simon and Jace. pg. 139
Źródło: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)

“The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me.”

Cassandra Clare książka Clockwork Prince

Źródło: Clockwork Prince

“So when the moon's only partly full, you only feel a little wolfy?"
"You could say that."
"Well, you can go ahead and hang your head out the car window if you feel like it."
"I'm a werewolf, not a golden retriever.”

Cassandra Clare książka Miasto kości

Źródło: City of Bones

“Your friend's poetry is terrible," he said.
Clary blinked, caught momentarily off guard. "What?"
"I said his poetry was terrible. It sounds like he ate a dictionary and started vomiting up words at random.”

“I'll just have them change the entry in the demonology textbook from 'almost extinct' to 'not extinct enough for Alec. He prefers his monsters really, really extinct.”

Cassandra Clare książka Miasto kości

Źródło: City of Bones

“Where there is love, there is often also hate. They can exist side by side.”

Cassandra Clare książka Miasto popiołów

Will that make you happy?"
Jace to Alec, pg. 10
Źródło: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)

“It's not gray," Clary felt compelled to point out. "It's green."
"If there was such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood," said Jace.”

Cassandra Clare książka Miasto kości

Źródło: City of Bones

“Did you ever think that in a past life Alec was an old woman with ninety cats who was always yelling at the neighborhood kids to get off her lawn? Because I do”

Cassandra Clare książka Miasto kości

Źródło: City of Bones

“I thought I'd lie on the floor and writhe in pain for awhile. It relaxes me.”

Cassandra Clare książka Miasto szkła

Źródło: City of Glass

“A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance novel covers? The”

Cassandra Clare książka Miasto popiołów

Jace to Alec, pg. 318
Źródło: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)

“You're an idiot."
"I've never claimed to be otherwise.”

Cassandra Clare książka Miasto kości

Jace to Clary, pg. 204
Źródło: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

“Let me give you a piece of advice. The handsome young fellow who's trying to rescue you from a hideous fate is never wrong. Not even if he says the sky is purple and made of hedgehogs.”

Cassandra Clare książka Miasto kości

Źródło: City of Bones

“You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.”

Cassandra Clare książka Clockwork Angel

Źródło: Clockwork Angel

“Jace shook his blond head in exasperation.
"You had to make a crazy jail friend, didn't you? You couldn't just count ceiling tiles or tame a pet mouse like normal prisoners do?”

Cassandra Clare książka Clockwork Princess

Źródło: Clockwork Princess

“My rapier wit hides my inner pain.”

Cassandra Clare książka Miasto szkła

Źródło: City of Glass

“Patience, grasshopper," said Maia. "Good things come to those who wait."
"I always thought that was 'Good things come to those who do the wave,'" said Simon. "No wonder I've been so confused all my life.”

Wariant: I'm sorry. I use my rapier wit to hide my inner pain.

“You might want to lie down. I find that helps when the crushing sense of horrible realization sets in.”

Cassandra Clare książka Miasto szkła

Źródło: City of Glass

“Alec looked at her and shook his head. "How do you manage never to get mud on your clothes?"
Isabelle shrugged philosophically. "I'm pure at heart. It repels the dirt.”

Cassandra Clare książka Miasto popiołów

Magnus to Maia, pg. 274
Źródło: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)

“Have you tried talking to her?"
"No. We've been punching her in the face repeatedly. What? You don't think that will work?”

Cassandra Clare książka Miasto popiołów

Źródło: City of Ashes

“Sometimes, when I have to do something I don't want to do, I pretend I'm a character from a book. It's easier to know what they would do.”

Cassandra Clare książka Miasto szkła

Źródło: City of Glass

“Well, she's not responding to my advances," he observed more brightly than he felt, "so she must be dead."
"Or she's a woman of good taste and sense.”

Cassandra Clare książka Clockwork Angel

Źródło: Clockwork Angel

“Will rolled up his sleeves. "We'll probably have to knock down the door--"
"Or," said Jem, reaching out and giving the knob a twist, "not."
The door swung open onto a rectangle of darkness.
"Now, that's simply laziness," said Will.”

Cassandra Clare książka Clockwork Angel

Źródło: Clockwork Angel

“We need to talk. All of us. About what we're going to do now."
"I was going to watch Project Runway. It's on next.”

Cassandra Clare książka Clockwork Angel

Źródło: Clockwork Angel

“I figured all your classes were stuff like Slaughter 101 and Beheading for Beginners.”

Cassandra Clare książka Miasto popiołów

Clary and Jace, pg. 137
Źródło: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)

“They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite”

Cassandra Clare książka Miasto kości

Clary to Jace, pg. 97
Źródło: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

“If no one cares for you at all, do you even really exist?”

Cassandra Clare książka Clockwork Prince

Źródło: Clockwork Prince

“It's the Mortal Cup, Jace, not the Mortal Toilet Bowl.”

Cassandra Clare książka Clockwork Prince

Wariant: If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?
Źródło: Clockwork Prince

“You know, some people think Shadowhunters are just myths. Like mummies and genies." Kyle grinned at Jace. "Can you grant wishes?"

"That depends," he said. "Do you wish to be punched in the face?”

Cassandra Clare The Mortal Instruments

Isabelle to Jace, pg. 349
The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

“There's no need to clarify my finger snap," said Magnus. "The implication was clear in the snap itself.”

Cassandra Clare książka City of Fallen Angels

Źródło: City of Fallen Angels