Cassandra Clare Quotes

We had and incident. I took care of it." "Really." Jace's voice dripped sarcasm. "Do you even know how to use that knife, Clarissa? Without poking a hole in yourself or any innocent bystanders?

Yech," said Simon. "Don't 'yech' me. You're the one with the magical spit.

We have a name," said Jace. "Magnes B-" "Shut up." Alec hissed, thwacking Jace with his closed menu. Jace looked injured. "Jesus," he rubbed his arm. "What's your problem?

He glanced furtively up and down the hallway. "Hodge too. Everyone wants to talk to me. Except you, I bet you don't want to talk to me," said Jace. "No," said Clary. "I want to eat. I'm starving.

You're not so bad. You'll get there. You should have seen Alec do flips at first. I think he kicked himself in the head once.

What kind of guardian are you? Shouldn't you have gone to the bathroom with him?" Isabelle demanded. Jordan looked horrified. "Dudes," he said, "do not follow other dudes to the bathroom.

Jace laughed, that soft rich sound Clary loved so much. "I'm warning you, that jacket is sexy. The Institute could go up in sexy, sexy flames.

I think you'll find that one would be self-defeating." Jace said lightly shoving his feet into his boots. "We are bound, he and I. Cut him and I bleed.

I was looking for Simon." Jordan squinted at her. "It's two in the morning." She shrugged. "He's a vampire." "But I'm not.

Clary," he whispered. There was a thump, and she realized he had fallen to his kees by the side of her bed. She didn't move, but her body tightened. His voice was a whisper. "Clary, it's me. It's me.

There were some feelings you never forgot.

Pulvis et umbra sumsu." ~ Horace, Odes ("We are dust and Shadows")

When to people tell the same lie..." "They are working together," Will finished

[Magnus] was wearing canary-yellow pajamas, and on his feet were green slippers with alien faces, complete with sproingy atennae.

What you said was true. we don't live or love in a vacuum. There are people around us who care about us who would be hurt, maybe destroyed if we let ourselves feel what we might want to feel.

Aline: "He's cute, for a Downworlder" Sebastian: "You'll have to forgive her; she has the face of an angel and the manners of a Moloch demon

Hodge had given up a long time ago trying to live a better life or a different one; all he wanted was not to be afraid, and so he was afraid all the time

For our purposes you can consider it a small country between Germany and France." "But there isn't anything between Germany and France. Except Switzerland." "Precisely," said Jace.

Jace, Clary thought, was the sort of person who liked it when things were happening, even things that were bad

Cucumber and bergamot," Clary said. "Is there anything else you hate that I ought to know about?" Jace looked at Dorothea over the rim of his teacup. "Liars," he said.

To love is to destroy, to destroy is to love. -Jace Herondale

It is easier to confront a threat as a mass, a group, not individuals who must be evaluated one by one.

To draw something is to try to capture it forever.

I’d rather have you in my life even as a brother than not at all—

You're killing me because you want me to give a message to God for you?" Jace shook his head, the point of the blade scraping across his throat. "You're crazier than I thought

His blue eyes were very dark...Will's were the colour of the sky just on the edge of the night.

I love your name. I love the sound of it

You cannot save every fallen bird," said Woolsey. "One will do," said Magnus.

You and your name dropping he said, I knew Michael, I knew Sammael. The angel Gabriel did my hair. Its like I'm with the band with biblical figures.

It's nearly full dark. We should go." "We? I thought you were going to leave me alone." "I lied," Jace said without a shred of embarrassment.

Are you threatening to kidnap me?" "If you want to look at it that way," Jace said, "yes.

I always need your strength,Alec

the action we take in the name of love,those are moral or immoral.and normally it wouldn't matter

That the wall is coming down.

He would look so young. They were both so young. Tessa knew it was unusual to marry at seventeen and eighteen, but they were racing a clock. The clock of Jem's life, before it wound down.

There is no cure for fictional character love, but the plus side is that it is an entirely benign disease with no bad side effects.

There was a man once who said that mothers carry the key of our souls with them all our lives. But you threw mine away

You screamed.” Will said. “Is that all you did?” “I screamed a great deal.” Tatiana sounded injured.

You said there was nothing in the world you wanted" The Queen's eyes glittered. "When you imagine your life without him, do you still feel the same?

Choosing love or war: both are brave choices, in their own ways.

Some secrets, she thought, were better told; some were better left the burden of the carrier, that they might not cause pain to others.

I would think that counted as offering resistance," Will said. "Eating one's son-in-law, that is. Though I suppose everyone has their family altercations.

Gracious," said Cecily. "You must be Mr. Sallows." "Nephilim," observed the shop owner gloomily. "I detest Nephilim." "Hmph," said Cecily. "Charmed, I'm sure.

For this I would be damned forever. For this I would have given up everything.

Let the sky rain potatoes," said a musing voice. "Let it thunder to the tune of Greensleeves.

Love make us a liar. . Jace Wayland/Herondale, City of Ashes

I would have given it up--all of it up--to be married to you for a day. A day that would never have come. You are a reminder--a reminder of everything I am losting. The Life I will not have.

"Jem?" he said. "Is it you, James?" "Who else?" Jem's voice.

Change is no loss, Will. Not always.

All my life, since I came to the Institute, you were the mirror of my soul. I saw the good in me in you. In your eyes alone I found grace. When you are gone from me, who will see me like that?