Cassandra Clare Quotes

To love is to destroy and to be loved is to be the one destroyed

I think that's just a story.""But, Jace, " she said. "All stories are true.

Tobias loved her more than he’d loved anything—his family, his duty, even himself. There, perhaps, the Herondale blood ran true.

What could you do, when what threatened the ones you loved was something else you loved just as much?

The more you try to crush your nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop.

For the first time, he looked at her, and she wasn’t a stranger, she was Clary—his friend. His family. The girl he’d sworn always to protect. The girl he loved as fiercely as he loved himself.

Power will always attract the greedy and the weak.

she...let the blood spill down instead of tears.

It's alright to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.

Will: I've never seen anyone get so excited over books before. You'd think they were diamonds.Tessa: Well, they are, aren't they? Isn't there anything you love like that?

It was so odd what brought out tenderness in people. It was never what you have expected.

Most of us do things for reasons that are more purely personal. For love, or for hate.

Their beauty had always seemed to him like the beauty of pressed flowers - lovely, but dead.

Tessa: Are all vampires like that? Cold like that?Charlotte: Many of them have been alive a long time. They don't see things the way we do.

We find in our children our own selves again, who might be made better than we are.

You shouldn't do that. Not to your child. You should-carry your own burdens.

Our fathers were demons, ' Catarina said. 'Our mothers were heroes.

Your pretense does not fool me, gnome. My eye will be upon you.

Fiction is truth, even if it is not a fact. If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your brain will live, but your heart will die.

My one true love remains my self... I dump myself occasionally to keep it interesting

Surely, she was too young to have so many ghosts.

Take my hands, ” Alec said. “And take my strength too. Whatever of it you can use to— to keep yourself going.

But Jocelyn Morgenstern was not the kind of woman who wept, not the kind of woman who broke, or Valentine would have broken her long since.

Funerals are for the living, Jace, not for the dead.

Why not risk your life, if you don't want to live anyway? Why not risk your life if you'll never be happy no matter what you do?

Will stared down at his hands. "My whole life wrecked, destroyed..." "You're seventeen, " Magnus said. "You can't have wrecked a life you've barely lived.

There is more to living than not dying, " he said. "Look at the way you live, Will. You burn as bright as a star.

Trust. It is like placing a blade in someone's hand and setting the very point to your heart.

All of us lost something. Some of us lost everything.

How easy it was to lose everything you had always thought you'd have forever.

Sometimes people get taken away from you whether you want it or not. And sometimes that hurts so much, it might be easier to forget.

Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.

You couldn’t make someone love you with a rune, and you couldn’t assuage grief with it either. So much magic, Clary thought, and nothing to mend a broken heart.

Tell me you love me Emma. Even if you don't mean it."-Julian Blackthorn

Wherever Jordan's going - and I do believe we all go somewhere - think of it as the light that will bring him home.

I want it to stop, " he said. "Sophie says everyone is still searching for a cure for me. I know I gave Will my permission, but I want everyone to cease looking now, Charlotte. It is over.

You know, there's a reason we can remember, " [Catarina] said more softly."That's much easier when your life has an expiration date.""It may be more important for us.

As long as there is love and memory, there is no true death, " - John Carstairs

Without memory, they were lost. And nobody wanted someone they loved to be lost.

As long as Simon didn’t think about the past, the past couldn’t hurt him. But, increasingly, he couldn’t help himself.There was too much pleasure in the pain.

He thought of his remembrance of Jordan, thought of how it hurt to even look at Isabelle and Clary. Without memory, they were lost. And nobody wanted someone they loved to be lost.

Sincerity and gravity, in Magnus's opinion, were highly overrated, as was being forced to relive unpleasant memories. He would much rather be amused and amusing.

If you never tell anyone the truth about yourself, eventually you start to forget.

Because women never say what they think.

It was books that made me feel that perhaps I wasn't completely alone.

You know men. We have delicate egos.""I wouldn't describe Jace's ego as delicate.""No, Jace is sort of the antiaircraft artillery tank of male egos, " Simon admitted.

Certainly it would be wonderful if we all knew exactly who we were.

So, what are you?""What I am is someone who doesn't want you to jump out of the window. The rest are details.

...wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness.

And I suppose you know who Magnus’ father is?” Luke said.“I paid a lot of money once to find it out, ” Raphael said.