Cassandra Clare Quotes
If you're really tired, I could put you to sleep," he said. "Tell you a bedtime story." She looked at him. "Are you serious?" "I'm always serious
If I might ask--," she began. Will sighed. "You know you'll ask whether I say it's all right or not.
Your city is under attack," he said. 'The wards are down, adn the streets area full of demons. And you want to know why I haven't called you?" Magnus to Alec
Jordan followed, buttoning his jeans and muttering about how there was nothing strange about having a pattern of dancing penguins on your underwear.
The young man who appeared at the mouth of the alley was pale in the lamplight—paler even than he usually was, which was quite pale indeed.
What’s your name, then? ”Tessa looked at him in disbelief. “What’s my name?” “Don’t you know it?
It’s that I think Will is angry with me,” Tessa explained. “So whatever he told you—” He laughed. “Will is angry with everyone,” he said. “I don’t let it color my judgment.
When somebody tells you there's something wrong with your book they're almost always right, when they tell you how to fix it they're almost always wrong.
How can you tell? That I like books, I mean. The look on your face when you walked in, somehow I doubted you were that impressed by me.
Hugo is a raven,and, as such he knows many things. I, meanwhile, am Hodge Starkweathe, a professor of history, as such, I do not know nearly enough.
I hate that stuff. It tastes like feet." At that he smiled. "How would you know what feet taste like?" "I just know.
Jace likes to pretend that everyone isn’t talking about him, even when he knows they are.
I like in books when we start the book and you really don't know how it's going to turn out.
I love reading epic fantasies and big fat books and so I really wanted to write one. I think you always write what you want to read.
A good adaptation of your book is worth it because it is such a wonderful experience to see your world translated onto the screen.
If I get work done early, I can do some interacting with fans online, or see my friends. If I don't get that work done, you may not see much of me!
Sometimes minor characters are based on people I know, on friends of mine. But I'm not writing a thinly veiled version of my own life.
In fiction, the actions of a villain, even when unspeakable, can be cathartic to read about. They let us experience darkness, but add a safe remove.
My boyfriend always says that if it weren't for him I'd probably get rid of my apartment and live nowhere, and he's right.
Whenever I see interesting names, I jot them down. I've found them in lots of different places: on the news, in the phone book, even on hotel registry lists.
I like to listen to music that fits with what I'm writing. For each book, I've assembled a playlist, so readers can get a sense of what I was listening to while I was writing.
My ideas often come from strong mental images. When I'm observing some relatively ordinary thing, I'll think, "What if...." and out of that brainstorming a story emerges.
I would write light entertainment nonfiction pieces during the day, then come home and work on my fantasy fiction. It was very difficult to get out of the one mindset and into another one.
I get a lot of inspiration from Japanese manga, especially shoujo which tends to have elaborate and fantastical adventure plots.
I was the quiet kid in the corner, reading a book. In elementary school, I read so much and so often during class that I was actually forbidden from reading books during school hours by my teachers.
I always wanted to be a writer since I was around 12 years old and I wrote my first book.
Hearts are breakable, " Isabelle said. "And I think even when you heal, you're never what you were before".
There are memories that time does not erase... Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.
I've never minded it, " he went on. "Being lost, that is. I had always thought one could not truly be lost if one knew one's own heart. But I fear I may be lost without knowing yours.
Of course he loves me. I’m his sister.”“Blood isn’t love, ” said Magnus, and his voice was bitter.
When you love someone, you don't have a choice. Love takes your choices away.- Clary Fray
Every time I think I'm missing a piece of me, you give it back.
There was beauty in the idea of freedom, but it was an illusion. Every human heart was chained by love.
Jace looked as if she had slapped him. "Why are you determined not to believe us?""Because she loves you, " said Valentine.Clary felt the blood drain out of her face.
Must I go bound while you go freeMust I love a manwho doesn't love meMust I be born with so little artAs to love a man who'll break my Heart
Love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything.
My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health.
These pictures are my heart. And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you.
Not enough, " he said, letting her hair slip through his fingers. "If I kiss you all day, everyday, for the rest of my life, it won't be enough.
Everyone has choices to make no one has the right to take those choices away from us. Not even out of love..
We are bound together, Emma, bound together—I breathe when you breathe, I bleed when you bleed, I’m yours and you’re mine, you’ve always been mine, and I have always, always belonged to you!
Happy birthday, Alexander, " Magnus murmured."Thanks for remembering, " Alec whispered back.
If there were such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood.
The world is terrible, " said Mark tonelessly. "And some are drawn down into it and drown there, and some rise above and carry others with them.
I've screwed everything up royally. I remember you saying that growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.