Cassandra Clare Quotes

I know," he said, looking down at himself self-consciously. "I am not-I mean, I look-" "Beautiful," she said, and she meant it. "You look beautiful, James Carstairs.

One more thing," Jace said. "Is there a holy place around here?" “Good idea. If you're going to take on a lair of vampires by yourself, you'd better pray first.

Take my hands,” Alec said. “And take my strength too. Whatever of it you can use to— to keep yourself going.

You know, there's a reason we can remember," [Catarina] said more softly. "That's much easier when your life has an expiration date." "It may be more important for us.

One must look at the next step on the path ahead, rather than the mountain in the distance, or one would never reach one's goal.

He loved her enough to know she was better off without him

Love did not overcome everything. Love did not always endure. All you had could be taken away, love could be the last thing you had, and then love could be taken too.

I don’t know why I ever helped you.” “Because you like broken things.

I think she just asked if she could touch my mango.

He has fought many battles with us" (Jace) By which you mean one battle" muttered Simon. "Two if you count the one I was a rat

It was odd, (Tessa thought), what brought out tenderness in people.

Enormous? Did you just call me FAT? I am not fat. - Jace

she was glad she had been scarred. She said that whoever loved her now would love her true self, and not her pretty face.

Jace suggested that the cast of "Gilligan's Island" could go do something anatomically unlikely with themselves.

All knowledge hurts.

Everything changes in my life, and the world stays the same.

Hate is nothing when weighed against survival. (Valentine)

One does no question miracles, or complain that they are no constructed perfectly to one's liking.

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

It was stupid to hope, she knew. But sometimes hope was all you had.

Magic or nature, they were much the same thing to Magnus.

Am I blind?" Will's voice floated out of the darkness, tinged with annoyance. "I'm not going to be at all pleased if you've blinded me, Henry.

Pain is only what you allow it to be

But they love each other. Isn't that what love means? That you're supposed to be there for the other person to turn to, no matter what?

One thing you'll learn as you get older, Simon, is that when people tell you something unpleasant about themselves, it's usually true.

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

Family is more than blood

And the answer is yes. I have loved you. I always have, and I always will.

Whatever the Clave was discussing, the Council meeting was dragging on brutally late. “But he knows New York. He doesn’t know Alicante—

You ask a lot of questions, don't you?" "My brother always says curiosity is my besetting sin.

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.

to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.

One does silly things when one is twelve.

In Will's experience, when someone who ought to be afraid wasn't, the reason was rarely bravery. Usually it meant that they knew something you didn't.

As it turned out, everyone wanted a doughnut. Jace wanted two.

I just don't see why the past has to matter.

I don’t think Will Herondale and a sense of responsibility are even on speaking terms

Looking at him now-even if she hadn't been in love with him, that part of her that was her mother's daugher, that loved every beautiful thing for its beauty alone, would still have wanted him.

You had to know a person well to make them laugh like that.

She shook her head. She was so pale under the diffuse lamp-light that she looked almost transparent, as if Simon could have looked right through her. The way, he supposed, he always had.

You've always been what you are. That's not new. What you'll get used to is knowing it.

The funny thing about mundies is how obsessed with magic they are for a bunch of people who don't even know what the word means.

I was even a little glad that if it wasn’t going to be me she wanted, it was going to be someone who really deserved her.

There’s more to honesty than … than an arrangement of words. They say faeries can’t lie, but you lie in your intentions, your attitude, your demeanor —

It had been a whim, and there was nothing Magnus attached more importance to than a whim.

Magnus didn't really want this kind of thing this early in the morning - this talk of aching memories and wanting to forget. This conversation needed to end, now.

No real lady would let a dress that might have been worn by a stranger touch her skin.

Anyone that looked like that wouldn't need to tie up girls and imprison them in order to get them to marry him

Has there ever been an Inquisitor who didn't die a horrible death?" Simon wondered out loud. " It's like being the drummer in Spinal Tap.

You could know a man not by what his friends said about him, but by how he treated his servants.