Cassandra Clare Quotes

Half of your attention is better than all of anyone else's.

Seeing through glamour is easy. It's people that are hard.

They confused beauty with innocence and harmlessness.

Then again, it was Jace. He'd pick a fight with a Mack truck if the urge took him.

It doesn't matter how many times you say it. It'll still be true.' 'And it doesn't matter what you won't let me say, that'll still be true too.

You disappear so completely into your head sometimes," he said. "I wish I could follow you.

Because you told me you don't have feelings for me anymore, and you see, that's very akward, because I still have them for you. And I bet you know it.

Why do you do these things to yourself? Not just what you did to the window, but the way you talked to Clary. What are you punishing yourself for? You can't help how you feel.

Regret is such a pointless emotion, don't you agree?

Is that why you didn't call me? Because I'm an idiot?

Doing the right thing because you love someone sucks sometimes.

Are you going to wolf out and eat me now?" "Certainly not, you'd be stringy and hard to digest." "But kosher." "I'll be sure to point any Jewish lycanthropes in your direction.

Sometimes you don't have to search out danger, sometimes danger finds you

Glory?....Glory belongs to God alone.

Everyone has choices to make; no one has the right to take those choices away from us. Not even out of love.

It wasn't enough, not nearly enough, but it was all there was.

How strange to have the power to literally transform yourself into other people, and yet be so unable to put yourself in their place.

It is not the same thing to be good and to be kind.

He'll come back," Simon said again. "For you.

Oh, come on," Clary said. "You're a vampire, not Spider-Man.

My blood in his veins." ~Jace

Raphael snapped, "This isn't funny." "That's why no one's laughing." Jace stood, hauling Raphael upright, jamming the tip of his knife between Raphael's shoulder blades.

You never really hate anyone as much as someone you cared about once.

Every memory was valuable; even the bad ones.

nothing says 'I love you' like reducing yourself to a smoldering pile of ashes

The most terrible things men do, they do in the name of love."— Madame Dorothea

Alec muttered a retort into his coffee. It rhymed with something that sounded a lot more like "ducking glass mole.

It's Simon, he's missing." Ahh." said Magnus delicately "Missing what exactly?" Missing!" Jace repeated "As in gone, absent, notable for his lack of presence, disappeared

If you insist on disavowing that which is ugly about what you do, you will never learn from your mistakes.

It's your gift, to see the beauty and the horror in ordinary things. It doesn't make you crazy, just different.

Are you trying to get run over by a cab? Don't be ridiculous. We could never get a cab that easily in this neighborhood

Wait." Clary was suddenly nervous. "The melted metal-it could be, like, toxic or something." Maia snorted. "I'm from New Jersey. I born in toxic sludge.

Other people have shrubbery in their gardens. You have a bottomless pit.

Love makes you a liar.

I can only assume," said Jace, "that mortal emotions amuse you because you have none of your own.

I saw Jonathan after he faced the fear demon, you know. It showed itself to him as you. That told me all I needed to know. The greatest fear in Jonathan’s life is the love he feels for his sister.

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.

There was an electric anger in his gaze, and a sort of challenge that made Simon long to hit him with something heavy. Like a pickup truck.

He had become a monster. You just couldn't see it...because it wore the face of a friend.

Just kissing? How quickly you dismiss our love.

Are you the one with the blue eyes?" "Actually, my eyes are usually described as golden...and luminous.

Lawful good to lawful evil!" said Simon, pleased. "He's quoting Dungeons and Dragons," said Clary. "Ignore him.

Clarissa," he said, "here with the vampire, I see. When things have settled a bit, we really must discuss you choice in pets.

Or perhaps this hostility of yours is the pretense. Love does make liars out of your kind.

Hey Baby. Baby? You're kidding me, right? I was trying it out. No? No.

i've never asked him but i'm sure he has a fairly stringent policy about random teenagers lurking in his strubbery

he's probably never met a six-foot tall hot elf-women in a fur bikini either.

There is nothing quite like the moral absolutism of the young." -Hodge

I never said that. I just didn't correct you when you were, you know, wrong. Anyway, I just saved you from being burned to death, so I figure you're not allowed to be mad." -Jace

Jace hated it when other people were worried on his behalf. It made him feel like maybe there really was something to worry about.