Cassandra Clare, City Of Heavenly Fire Quotes

As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.

We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.

Sharp are the arrows of a broken heart.

Because that which was new was almost always temporary. And that which was temporary broke your heart.

The way Magnus’ breath had sounded, rattling in his chest, before he’d said his father’s name.

Temper us in fire, and we grow stronger. When we suffer, we survive.

Family isn't blood. It's the people who love you. The people who have your back.

And I suppose you know who Magnus’ father is?” Luke said.“I paid a lot of money once to find it out, ” Raphael said.

I see that even as the world plunges into darkness and peril, you two stand around discussing your love lives. Teenagers.

I think, ” Jace said, “that you don’t want to tell your secrets, so you decided to break up with Alec because...

Isabelle!" he called again. "Let down your raven hair!'"Oh my God, " Clary muttered. "There was something in that blood Raphael gave you, wasn't there? I'm going to kill him.

The foundations of your childhood, they stay with you.

Jace: Herondale, on the other hand, is melodic. Dulcet, one might say. Think of the sound of 'Clary Herondale.'Clary: Oh, my god, that sounds horrible.Jace: We all must sacrifice for love.

And that - he pointed ahead - is the road to Hell. That's where we're going. I have always heard it was paved with good intentions, said Simon

Oh, God, ” Magnus said. “They’re dead. They’re all dead.

He knew what 'I love you' meant, and he knew it was good, but he didn't understand why it was an explanation for anything.

You are a great deal of trouble, Jace herondale. “So I’ve been told” jace said

Heroes save worlds, " Clary said. "They don't destroy them.

Wherever Jordan's going - and I do believe we all go somewhere - think of it as the light that will bring him home.

You couldn’t make someone love you with a rune, and you couldn’t assuage grief with it either. So much magic, Clary thought, and nothing to mend a broken heart.

Surely, she was too young to have so many ghosts.

You shouldn't do that. Not to your child. You should-carry your own burdens.

We find in our children our own selves again, who might be made better than we are.

she...let the blood spill down instead of tears.

Aren't we forever?

They sat in silence on the windowsill, their hands locked across the distance between them.

I wish I had a parabatai, " Emma said. "It's like someone who's your family, but because they want to be, not because they have to be.

Clary, " he said. "You're Clary. You're my best friend.

Mundane education is regrettably prosaic, " - Jace Lightwood-Herondale

Don’t carry the weight of the world on you Jace. It’s too heavy for even a Herondale to bear.

Don't you think 'Mark is kind of a weird name for a Shadowhunter?" Julian was saying as Emma approached. "I mean, if you really think about it. It's confusing. 'Put a Mark on me, Mark.

Every time I think I'm missing a piece of me, you give it back.

There are memories that time does not erase... Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.