Cassandra Clare Quotes

Because what was the point in crying when there was no one there to comfort you? And what was worse, when you couldn't even comfort yourself?

He knew what 'I love you' meant, and he knew it was good, but he didn't understand why it was an explanation for anything.

When he let go of Clary, he turned and hugged Jace. Clary watched, tears running down her face.

He is a Shadowhunter, ” said Jocelyn. “His loyalty will be to Clave and Covenant.”“He’s my friend, ” said Magnus coldly. “His loyalty is to me.

The moon was wide—too wide and too close. Mentally, Simon told the moon to stop being so close and bright and that it should just generally shut up with the mooniness.

Are you in fashion? You look like you're in fashion.""No, " [Magnus] said. "I am fashion.

A sense of hopelessness had invaded his bones, as chill and as inescapable as the rain.

Got caught in the rain, I see, " - Isabelle Lightwood

Do you not tire of eternity? Do you not wish to end your suffering?""By leaping into the Void? Not really.

You can not buy or drug or dream your way out of pain.

A scientist said once that if the ocean were as clear as the sky, if we could see everything in it, no one would ever go in the sea.

Simon snorted. "If you ever meet the man who could take advantage of Isabelle, you'll have to let me know. I'd like to shake his hand. Or run away from him very fast, I'm not sure which.

One cannot judge a man for the sins of his family.

It is always better to live the truth than to live a lie.

He had to escape. He had to go and become a hero, the way he had been once.

Every time you rip the bandages off, you just open the wound up again. Every time he sees you, it's like tearing off the bandages.

She was afraid of nothing and demanded everything.

You are a great deal of trouble, Jace herondale. “So I’ve been told” jace said

We who are immortal, we are chained to this life by a chain of gold, and we dare not sever it for fear of what lies beyond the drop.

It was as hard to comprehend that your life would never end as it was to comprehend that it would.

...khalepa ta kala...It means that that which is worth having--the good, fine, honorable, and noble things--are difficult to attain...It means something else as well...It means 'beauty is harsh'.

I think everyone is strong and weak in different ways.

Not giving him booze, are you? He's a little young for it.

Even more blood welled up and spilled down his arm, splattering onto the ground.“Camille’s carpet, ” Magnus protested.“It’s blood, ” said Will. “She ought to be thrilled.

I thought you were dead." Magnus smiled crookedly. "What, from that scratch?" He glanced down at the reddening jacket in Alec's hand. "Okay, a deep scratch. Like, from a really, really big cat.

But all these were things he could not want, because they were things he could not have, and wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness.

Every student, Shadowhunter and mundane alike, knew the name Herondale. It was Jace’s last name. It was the name of heroes.

Heroes endure because we need them. Not for their own sakes.

Heroes save worlds, " Clary said. "They don't destroy them.

Heroes endure because we need them. Not for their own sake.

It is not easy to be different, and even less so to be unique. But I begin to think I was never meant for an easy road.

as long as I can still dream, I will dream of you.

Every decision you make, makes you. Never let other people choose who you’re going to be.

Actually, " said Jace, "I prefer to think that I'm a liar in a way that's uniquely my own.

I see that even as the world plunges into darkness and peril, you two stand around discussing your love lives. Teenagers.

El hambre agudiza el ingenio, ” said Raphael.Hunger sharpens the wit.“Good proverb, ” said Magnus. “However, like most proverbs, it sounds wise and yet does not actually clarify anything.

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

To love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be destroyed