Cassandra Clare Quotes

Parabatai" said Jace. "It means a pair of warriors who fight together - who are closer than brothers. Alec is more than justmy best friend.

Whither thou goest, I will go; Where thou diest, will I die And there will I be buried: The Angel do so to me, and more also, If aught but death part thee and me.

I love you. And I don't want to lose you.

Wherever we are, we are as one

Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.

We're not dating," Alec said again. "Oh?" Magnus said. "So you're just that friendly with everybody, is that it?

Don't bother her, don't try to talk to her, don't even look at her, or I'll fold you in half so many times you'll look like a tiny little origami werewolf.

The more you try to crush your true nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop.

Tell me you love me. Tell me you love me and will fight with me.

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

Or maybe it's just that beautiful things are so easily broken by the world.

Well, I'm certainly not Ragnor Fell the exotic dancer.

Lightwoods,” Magnus said. “They always have to have the last word.

I never cared,” he said. “I wanted you anyway. I always wanted you.

She had always wanted a brother. And she had one now. Sebastian. It was like always wanting a puppy and being a hellhound instead.

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

Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death.

You know,” Cecily said, “you really didn’t have to throw that man through the window.

Did Brother Zachariah just steal our cat?

Going round and around inside a dryer can be fatal, whereas pasta is rarely fatal. Unless Isabelle makes it.

You left me. You made a pet out of me, and then you left me. If love were food, I would have starved on the bones you gave me.

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.

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.

You have a dark heart in you, Valentine's daughter.

You could give me the past,“ he said a little sadly. “But Alec is my future.

Will has always been the brighter burning star, the one to catch attention — but Jem is a steady flame, unwavering and honest. He could make you happy.

"What are you doing here anyway?" "'Here' as in your bedroom or 'here' as in the great spiritual question of our purpose here on this planet?"

Eternity is a long time to spend alone, without others of your kind.

What's the point in wasting a perfectly good brick wall when you have someone to throw against it, that's what I always say.

Jem touched the parabatai rune on his shoulder, through the thin material of his nightshirt. "I am not alone," he said. "Wherever we are, we are as one.

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

Well, you'll have to wait till tomorrow. I'm out of commission." (he points to his shirt) "Look. Jammies.

By the Angel, this place is barely better than a penny gaff,” Gideon said. “Gabriel, don’t look at anything unless I tell you it’s all right.

I have a fetish for damsels in distress.” “Don’t be sexist.” “Not at all. My services are also available to gentlemen in distress. It’s an equal opportunity fetish.

And next time you're planning to injure yourself to get me attention, just remember that a little sweet talk works wonders.

Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know of, and use them to embellish and define characters.

Love is a contradiction.

We are not our parents, Gabriel. We do not have to carry the burden of their choices or their sins.

He is bound to you,” said the Queen. “But does he love you?

You snuck up on me,” she said. “I guess I’m not much of a Shadowhunter, huh?” Simon shrugged. “Well, in your defense, I do move with a silent, pantherlike grace.

I wouldn't call that an instrument of music," Ragnor observed sourly. "An instrument of torture, perhaps.

Ragnor looked very regretful about all the choices that had led him to his being in this place and especially in this company

Jem knotted his fingers in the material of Will's sleeve. "You are my parabatai," he said, "You said once I could ask anything of you.

Men may be stronger, but it is women who endure.

One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.

Everything that happens to you matters to me.

Do reasons matter when there's nothing that can be done to change things.

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

You couldnt erase everything that caused you pain with recollection.Every memory was valuable; even the bad ones

People who know and love the same books as you, have the road map to your soul.