Cassandra Clare Quotes

Piano keys jangled as he got to his feet. "Our own Sleeping Beauty. Who finally kissed you awake?" "Nobody. I woke up on my own." "Was there anyone with you?

Isabelle: Do you want some soup? Jace: No Isabelle: Do you think Hodge will want some soup? Jace: No one wants soup Simon: I want some soup! Jace: No, you don't. You just want to sleep with Isabelle

I was looking for the opposite, really -something that might put an end to being in love

Sometimes.. Love just ain't enough- Luke Garroway to Clary

love isnt mortal or immortal. it just is

It really was getting difficult to be wonderful.

Are you, monsieur, a man of your word?" "It really depends upon the word," Magnus said. "There are so many wonderful words.

It was a very bad idea. It was a terrible idea. It was the worst idea he had ever heard. It was irresistible.

Hello," Magnus said to the monkey. The monkey did not reply. "I shall call you Ragnor.

Someday," Magnus said, looking at the crumpled royal person at his feet, "I must write my memoirs.

She had a plan. Even if it was a little insane.

I don't suppose it would be possible to, er, step on him?

Yes, Consul. The next time one of our esteemed members turns into a worm and eats another esteemed member, we will inform you immediately.

Magnus gazed upon Camille. "Some of my fondest memories include lashings of cream and beautiful women.

Very well," Magnus said. "Let us pause for a moment and consider—Oh, you have already run off Splendid.

I shall never eat duck again. I cannot believe I used to like duck. The duck betrayed me.

I want my people to be protected, strong, and not to be driven into corners until they either become killers or are killed!

Sometimes he thought they were all forsaken, every soul on this earth.

Ladies' hearts are like china on a mantelpiece. There are so many of them, and it is so easy to break them without noticing.

I thought of love as a game. It is not a game. It is more serious than death.

One can give up many things for love, but one should not give up oneself.

Ma'am," Magnus said, advancing. "I must counsel you not to exit the carriage while a demon-slaying is in progress.

I do not mean to seem indelicate or ungrateful," said Linette Owens, "but are you a dangerous lunatic?

It will bring you light even among the darkest shadows of this world and others

Your life is yours to live as you choose.

Your plans are suicidal. At best.

Clary's mother apparently reguarded him as about as sexually threatening as a goldfish.

Magnus, I wish I had the nerve to wear the kind of pants you do.

It could have been the whole thing where you stabbed him.

Now that you know the truth, you can never go back.

It's because you're too scared to tell anyone who you really love. Love makes us liars.

Weakness and corruption isn't in the world," Clary snapped. "It's in people. And it always will be. The world just needs good people to balance it out. And you're planning to kill them all.

Will had laid down his heart for her and Jem to walk upon because he loved them more than he loved himself

My mom says you only need three people you can rely on to achieve self-actualization.

Magnus shrugged. "He also made inappropriate amorous advances to a startled grandmotherly sort selling flowers, an Irish wolfhound, and innocent hat stand in a dwelling he broke into, and myself.

How they loved each other, these three, how they had suffered for each another, and yet how much joy they clearly took from simply being in the same room.

Tatiana's eyes were huge and poison-green, eyes with enough pain in them to eat away at a world and devour a soul.

James had given his heart to this girl, Magnus thought, and Magnus knew well enough from Edmund and Will what it meant when a Herondale gave his heart away. It was not a gift that could be returned.

Ladies who were no better than they should be, whose dresses were too tight, too bright and too all the things Magnus liked most, lounged on velvet-covered benches along the walls.

[Will Herondale] would say he knew a warlock who was a better friend, and more worth trusting, than many a nephilim warrior.

Being remembered, and remembered so kindly, touched him more than he would have thought possible.

Perhaps [James Herondale] loved vice for vice's own sake.

Coaxing drunken Shadowhunters into making fools of themselves was a favorite occupation among the Downworlders, and this performance had been a tremendous success.

I will add that I do not believe his admiration of my person, dazzling through I am, to be sincere. He told me I was a beautiful, sparkling lady.

I decided it was well past time to take him home and place him in bosom of his family. If you had rather I put him in an orphanage, I fully understand.

Do stop flirting with my husband," said Tessa. "I shall not," Magnus declared, "but I will pause briefly so that I may catch up on your news.

The conviction that everyone in this house must be dead had gained such a hold on Magnus that it was a shock when the woman who had summoned him here opened the door.

It was, of course, odd for a lady to be opening her own door, but from the look of the place, Magnus assumed the entire staff of servants had been given the decade off.

[Magnus] reminded himself of his manners, and bowed. "Charmed," he said. "Or whatever effect would please you best, I'm sure.

She seemed like a creature made to attract everyone and express nothing real, though it would take a master observer, like Magnus, to know it.