Cassandra Clare Quotes

Go in peace, James Carstairs.

Life is full of risks. Death is much simpler.

Those of us who do not live forever do not like change perhaps as much as those of you who do.

I take your hand, brother, so that you may go in peace.

At last, the wheel comes full circle

So you are dying for love, then," Will said finally, his voice sounding constricted to his own ears. 'Dying a little faster for love. And there are worse things to die for.

I think," Jace said, "that you don't want to tell your secrets, so you decided to break up with Alec because...

Atque in pepetuum, frater, ave atque vale,” he whispered. The words of the poem had never seemed so fitting: Forever and ever, my brother, hail and farewell.

His eyes went soft and silver as she spoke. “Zhe shi jie shang, wo shi zui ai ne de,” he whispered. She understood it. In all the world, you are what I love the most.

To marry a girl just to make her a widow,” said Gabriel Lightwood. “Many would say that was not a kindness.

To lose an arm or a leg would be painful, but to lose the central truth of your life felt—fatal.

Well, then, since you say there will be another life for me, let us both pray I do not make as colossal a mess of it as I have this one.

Their oldest child, James, had spoken laughingly about Will's unrelenting fear of ducks and his continual battle to keep them out of the pond at the family home in Yorkshire.

I can't - I'll chop off my own foot!" "If you're going to chop off anyone's foot, chop off Benedict's," Will muttered.

Dear me," said Will, and he took another bite of his apple. "Is it because I'm better-looking than you?

If the marriage were valid, she'd be your sister-in-law.

I have come to understand something about novels," Tessa said. "And what is that?" "They are not true.

Every heart has its own melody," he said. "You know mine. - James Carstairs

I want to kiss you one more time before I die.

It is a very strange thing, to be in love. It changes you.

I can tell you that the end of life is the some of the love that was lived in it.

One can love two children. But your heart can be given romantic love to only a single other, said Woolsey.

I am stronger when Tessa is here, you see. I told it to you," said Jem, still in the same soft voice. At that, Will did duck his head so that Tessa could not see his eyes. "I see it," he said.

I think you are very selfless.

She felt as if she bled her regret and loneliness from her very pores, and yet she could not shape those feelings into any sentiment she could imagine her parents could bear reading.

Against his own will, almost, Will felt himself understanding; he would have done anything, he thought, told any lie, taken any risk, to make Tessa love him.

Do not think I do not know that Cecily wants you to return home with her. And do not think I do not know that you remain for Jem's sake." "And yours," he said before he could stop himself.

We are responsible for protecting Tessa!

You understand my music.

Hope is not an illusion.

They were frightening enough, but Tessa could not help but feel that if Will were there, he would have commented that they looked like turnips, and perhaps made up a song about it.

I would rather insult you than lose you, he said, and before any of them could make a move to stop him, he cast both items into the fire.

Jem cried out with all his remaining strength. You cannot go where I am going! Nor would I want that for you!

Wo men shi jie bai xiong di-we are more than brothers, Will.

She did not belong to Will-she was too much herself to belong to anyone, even Jem-but she belonged with them, and silently he cursed the Consul for not seeing it.

I am nothing if not gracious," Will said. His eyes searched Jem's face, that face as familiar to him as his own. "And determined. You will not leave me. Not while I live.

Forever and ever, brother, hail. Forever and ever, farewell.

Truth is brighter than Light Falsehood darker than night Revenge is keener than Axe and Love is softer than melting wax

The melody rolled over her, as cool and sweet as water, as hopeful and lovely as sunrise.

It was like I saw your soul in the notes of the music. And it was beautiful.

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

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

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.

I am sorry," Will said. "No," Jem said... "Don't be ordinary like that. Don't say you're sorry.

There was human goodness in the world, she thought-all caught up with desires and dreams, regrets and bitterness, resentments and power, but it was there.

She knew she could not be Jem for Will. No one could. But slowly the hollow places in his heart were filling in.

The Will I fell in love with, she almost said."And be Will," she finished instead. "Or I shall hit you with my umbrella.

Not all that is mortal is useless.

We are ever capable of change and ever capable of being our better selves

Honestly I don't know why i have these parties" "Because of your cat" "That's true. Chairman Meow deserves my every effort