Cassandra Clare Quotes

Inanimate objects are harmless indeed, Mr. Mortmain. But one cannot always say the same of the men who use them.

You behave as if everything is funny to you, but you never laugh. Sometimes you smile when you think no one is paying attention.

Tea. I find that both settles the stomach and concentrates the mind. Wonderful drink, tea.

Jace, There is no wedding! Stop Isabelle! Sit on her if you have to. Just stop her from doing whatever she's doing or I can never come home. -Alec

I've heard the word 'fear'. I simply choose to believe it doesn't apply to me.

I'm not unhappy," he said. "Only people with no purpose are unhappy. I've got a purpose.

Change is not always accomplished peacefully, but that does not make it disadventageous.

Clary: "Aren't they supposed to be hiring someone else to train me full-time anyway?"

Perfect heroines, like perfect heroes, aren't relatable, and if you can't put yourself in the protagonist's shoes, not only will they not inspire you, but the book will be pretty boring.

Clary,” Jocelyn said. “I want you to meet Tessa Gray.

The thing about the Mirror is that no one knows where it is. In fact, no one knows what it is.” "It’s a mirror,” Simon said. “You know – reflective, glass. I’m just assuming.

Do not seek revenge and call it justice.

I can't believe he didn't have the dignity and presence of mind just to get drunk and pass out in some gutter," said Jace. "I must say, I'm disappointed in the little fellow.

I stabbed you. With a massive sword. You caught on fire." His lips twitched, almost imperceptibly. "Okay, so maybe our problems aren't like other couples.

Gold to airy thinness beat.

Other crack teams get bat boomerangs and wall-climbing powers; we get Aquatruck.

By the Angel, it just crushed Sophocles," noted Will. "Has no one respect for the classics these days?

Not everything is about you," Clary said furiously. "Possibly," Jace said, "but you do have to admit that the majority of things are.

I guess it’s true what they say," observed Jace. "There are no straight men in the trenches." "That’s atheists, jackass," said Simon furiously. "There are no atheists in the trenches.

Nothing is permanent," Magnus said. "I know this from experience. But you can get new things. You can meet new people. You can go on.

You could have anything else in the world. and you asked for me.

Suddenly reminded, she clapped a hand over her mouth. "Oh- Simon!" "No, I'm Jace," he said patiently. "Simon is the weaselly little one with the bad haircut and dismal fashion sense.

I figured all your classes were stuff like Slaughter 101 and Beheading for Beginners." Jace flipped a page. "Very funny, Fray.

What don't kill me... Had better start running!

I am not the one of us who has no heart.

Usually I'm remarkably good natured. Try me on a day that doesn't end in y.

Gideon Lightwood said he was at the Institute in Madrid. What on earth was he doing there?' 'Faffing about, most likely', said Will.

We need to talk. All of us About what we're going to do now." "I was going to watch Project Runway.

Investigation?" Isabelle laughed. "Now we're detectives? Maybe we should all have code names." "Good idea," said Jace. "I shall be Baron Hotschaft Von Hugenstein.

He was the one she was doing all this for, but sometimes she missed him so much it felt like she swallowed broken glass.

You're not going," he said as soon as she'd finished. "If I have to tie you up and sit on you until this insane whim of yours passes, you are not going to Idris." - Jace

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.

Have you tried talking to her?" "No. We've been punching her in the face repeatedly. What? You don't think that will work?

Don't." Clary raised a warning hand. "I'm not really in the mood right now." "That's got to be the first time a girl's ever said that to me," Jace mused.

And I think that you do not understand that sometimes the only choice is between acceptance and madness.

Beautiful. He'd called her beautiful. Nobody had ever called her that before, except her mother, which didn't count. Mothers were required to think you were beautiful.

All Lightwoods look the same to me—

If I had not been a Shadowhunter, I would have had a future on the stage. I have no doubt I would have been greeted with acclaim.

Fresh is better. But you've never drunk fresh blood. Have you?" Simon raised his eyebrow in response. "Well, aside from mine of course," Jace said. "And I'm pretty sure my blood is fan-tastic.

i told you he'd freak out, she siad. didn't i? ah, the i told you so, jace said. always a classy move

Not everything that's true needs to be said.

Tessa touched his wrist lightly with her hand. "Be brave," she said. "It's not a duck, is it?

His beauty did not blaze like Will's did in fierce colors and repressed fire, but it had its own muted perfection, the loveliness of snow falling against a silver gray sky.

Jace knew he was being cruel, and he barely cared. Hurting people he loved was almost as good as hurting himself when he was in this kind of mood.

Why should I tell you everything about how I feel when you never tell me anything?

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.

Lust," she said. "Lust is a deadly sin." "And spanking." "I think that falls under lust." "I think it should have its own category." said Jace

It's love, not the Battle of Thermopylae. You don't have to treat everything like it's a last stand.

I may be a killer," Jace said, "but I know what I am. Can you say the same?

Jace slammed his hand down on the stele. “Clary-“ “She said she doesn’t want it,” said Simon. “Ha-ha.” “Ha-ha?” Jace looked incredulous. “That’s your comeback?