Cassandra Clare Quotes

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.

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

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

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

Family is more than blood

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

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

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?

Pain is only what you allow it to be

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.

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

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

If I held a revolver to your head, James, and pulled the trigger, would it really matter if I did not know that there were not bullets in the chambers?

That's your truck parked up by the factory isn't it?" Magnus pointed. "It's awfully butch for a bookseller.

Will suspected Jem was in fact cleverer than he was himself - but he lacked Will's tendency to assume the absolute worst about people and proceed from there.

You don't get it, Clary. You don't understand what it's like to live always at war, to grow up with battle and sacrifice. I guess it's not your fault. It's just how you were brought up-

We may not be all that bright, Jace said, but at least we are alive.

Oh, I can never get enough. Which, incidentally, is what your sister said when--

Where is your angel now?

Shouldn't we stand back to back or something?" "What? Why?" "I don't know. In movies that's what they do in this kind of… situation.

there is a fine line between sarcasm and hostility, you seemed to have crossed it. What's up?

...We die, we turn, we are reborn as we deserve to be reborn, based on our doings in this world." Will looked down at his bitten nails. "I will probably be reborn as a slug that someone salts.

At least Kyle wasn't home. That would be a hard one to explain to his new roomate. Nobody liked a guy who kept blood in the fridge.

Magnus did not take such suffering lightly, but even mortals did not die of broken hearts. No matter how cruel Grace had been, he told himself, James would heal. Even though he was a Herondale.

Sharp are the arrows of a broken heart.

Is this one of those days where we all stalk out in fury? Because I simply haven't got the energy for it.

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

Sometimes our lives can change so fast that the change outpaces our minds and hearts.

Ragnor [was] always happy to see chaos, but not be involved in it.

Everyone has something they can't live without.

When the fey were worried, it was time to panic.

The rich bought wonderful clothes you recognized. The richest had their pople go to Paris and buy the entire new collection that no one outside of the fashion house has seen.

I suppose we all lie to ourselves sometimes.

You can see where it was, years ago. Like an old woman who was once beautiful, but time has taken her beauty away.

We live and breathe words.

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

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

To be beautiful you had to be willowy and tall. When you were as short as Clary was, just over five feet, you were cute. Not pretty or beautiful, but cute.

I would give you everything of myself. I would give you more in two weeks than most men would give you in a lifetime.

Don't you hate it? Not ever saying how you really feel?

Grief makes you feel alone, but you're not. I know you don't believe in-in religion-the same way I do, but you can believe you're surrounded by people who love you, can't you?

Scott noticed Will staring at it and grinned. "Like what you see?" Woolsey Scott asked. "I do enjoy these surprise midnight declarations. Go along, have at it.

Nearly unable to bear the thought of how much he needed her quiet strength, he closed his eyes and leaned his forehead against the cold glass.

Magnus reached out to touch Alec, but Alec moved away. Magnus' hand fall to himself.

Alec slid his hand from Jace's arm to his shoulder. Magnus cleared his throat. Alec dropped his hand. Simon grinned into his undrunk coffee.

Who said we were owed happiness?

That’s why girls have boyfriends. So you have someone to take you to boring functions.

He put his arms about himself as if he were cold. "I do not know who to be without him.

I need someone who can keep up with me, not some sickly creature that looks as if he’s doddering off to the grave.

You can’t just keep grabbing at me every time you see me. It’s not a substitute for actually talking.