Cassandra Clare
Judith Lewis, better known by her pen name Cassandra Clare, is an American author of young adult fiction, best known for her bestselling series The Mortal Instruments. (Cassandra Clare Quotes)
“A fighter is someone who fights- with everything and anything she has at her disposal.”
Cassandra Clare
Shadowhunters and Downworlders
“A gentle boy with a gentle soul, but every soul contains its own opposite, and the opposite of gentleness was ruthlessness—the beautiful wreckage of mercy.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“A great sadness welled up in Magnus at the sight of him. It was human to age and die, and Jem stood outside that humanity now, outside the light that burned so brightly and so briefly. It was cold outside that light and fire. No one had greater cause to know that cold than Magnus did.”
Cassandra Clare
The Midnight Heir
“A magic spell can always be undone by another spell. I will not have the truth of myself be something that can be dissolved by a stray enchantment or passing through the wrong magical gate.”
Cassandra Clare
Lord of Shadows
“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.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“A secret too long kept can kill a soul by inches. I watched a secret almost destroy a man once, the finest man ever made. Such a secret is like keeping treasure in a tomb. Little by little, poison eats away at the gold. By the time the door is opened, there may be nothing left but dust.”
Cassandra Clare
Ghosts of the Shadow Market
“Actually, he would much rather have been abandoned in hostile territory than left to stand around at a party.”
Cassandra Clare
The Red Scrolls of Magic
“Alec keeps sending me annoying photos. Lots of captions like Wish you were here, except not really.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Fallen Angels
“Alec knew who he was. He knew what he had done and what he had fought for, and he knew what he would fight for in the future. And he knew exactly who he loved.”
Cassandra Clare
The Red Scrolls of Magic
“Alec was absolutely sure that in the bright chaos of his long, strange life, Magnus had stayed kind.”
Cassandra Clare
The Red Scrolls of Magic
“All he knew was that she shone, like a constellation in the shape of a girl.”
Cassandra Clare
Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy
“All I did was think about being worthy of coming home to you.”
Cassandra Clare
Ghosts of the Shadow Market
“All I know is that I love you. And for the first time, that’s good enough.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Lost Souls
“All of us lost something. Some of us lost everything.”
Cassandra Clare
The Lost Herondale
“All that darkness, and all that pain, and Magnus was somehow still a blazing riot of life and color, a source of joy for everyone around him.”
Cassandra Clare
The Red Scrolls of Magic
“All the beautiful surprises of life are what make life worth living.”
Cassandra Clare
Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy
“Also, we are from the New York Institute, and we are past masters of letting it slide.”
Cassandra Clare
The Lost Book of the White
“Always ask for what you want, because the worst thing that can happen is embarrassment but the best thing that can happen is nudity.”
Cassandra Clare
Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale
“And I love you,” Kieran said. “You are all that exists on the earth and under the sky that I do love.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“And I will bring a llama into the place where you sleep and make sure that it urinates on everything you possess.”
Cassandra Clare
The Bane Chronicles
“And if there were two things he believed were limitless, it was love and imagination.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“And I’m suppose to sit by while you date boys and fall in love with someone else, get married…?” His voice tightened. “And meanwhile, I’ll die a little bit more every day, watching.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Glass
“And next time you’re planning to injure yourself to get me attention, just remember that a little sweet talk works wonders.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Bones
“And now I need you to do for me what I cannot do for myself. For you to be my eyes when I do not have them. For you to be my hands when I cannot use my own. For you to be my heart when mine is done beating.”
Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Princess
“And now I’m looking at you,” he said, “and you’re asking me if I still want you, as if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has. I never dared give much of myself to anyone before – bits of myself to the Lightwoods, to Isabelle and Alec, but it took years to do it – but, Clary, since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Glass
“And that was glorious too, the idea of loving someone and not fearing they would soon be lost.”
Cassandra Clare
The Bane Chronicles
“And where there was life, there was hope. Maybe not now, not yet, but someday, they could still have their future.” (Cassandra Clare Quotes)
Cassandra Clare
Ghosts of the Shadow Market
“And you should not be out and about in your nightgown. There are Lightwoods wandering these halls.”
Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Princess
“Animals are innocent. To have their trust is an honor. He will be miserable unless you let him stay with you, help you. You are not saving him from a burden by keeping him away. Only breaking his heart.”
Cassandra Clare
Chain of Thorns
“Anyone who says women are weak is afraid they’re too strong.”
Cassandra Clare
Ghosts of the Shadow Market
“Are you in fashion? You look like you’re in fashion.” “No, “Magnus said. “I am fashion.”
Cassandra Clare
The Fall of the Hotel Dumort
“Art is magic, and art is powerful. Art saves lives- I really believe that. It gives us courage and compassion we might not have on our own.”
Cassandra Clare
Shadowhunters and Downworlders
“As a last resort he went up to the mountains and played there. Magnus was sure that the llama stampede he witnessed was a coincidence. The llamas could not be judging him.”
Cassandra Clare
The Bane Chronicles
“As far as I’m concerned, this is the worst thing that’s happened since I found out why Magnus was banned from Peru.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Lost Souls
“As long as she is alive and well and happy in this world, I will find a way to be happy as well, even if it is not beside her”
Cassandra Clare
City of Heavenly Fire
“As long as there is love and memory, there is no true death.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“As long as you exist and I exist, I will love you.”
Cassandra Clare
Queen of Air and Darkness
“As Magnus turned to walk away from the church, he heard the sound of violin music carried to him on the cloudy London air, and remembered another night, a night of ghosts and snow and Christmas music, and Will standing on the steps of the Institute, watching Magnus as he went.”
Cassandra Clare
The Midnight Heir
“As we all have an infinite capacity to make mistakes, we all have an infinite capacity for forgiveness.”
Cassandra Clare
Queen of Air and Darkness
“At dinner the next day, it was soup again. It had been soup for every meal for many days now. Simon did not remember a life before soup, and he despaired of ever achieving a life after soup.”
Cassandra Clare
Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy
“At dinner the next day, it was soup again. It had been soup for every meal for many days now. Simon did not remember a life before soup, and he despaired of ever achieving a life after soup. Simon wondered if the shadowhunters had runes to protect against scurvy.”
Cassandra Clare
Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy
“At the edge of everything, love and faith have always brought me back, and back to you.”
Cassandra Clare
Queen of Air and Darkness
“At the time I thought what I had with you and your mother was better than nothing. But if you can’t tell the truth to the people you care about the most, eventually you stop being able to tell the truth to yourself.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“Be a hero, Simon,” Simon muttered bitterly, remembering the life Magnus Bane had dangled before him in their first meeting – or at least, the first one Simon could remember. “Have an adventure, Simon. How about, turn your life into one long agonizing gym class, Simon.” “Dude, you’re talking to yourself again.”
Cassandra Clare
The Lost Herondale
“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.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Bones
“Because in the end nothing is worse than seeing the fall of one you loved. It was somehow worse than losing a love. It made everything seem questionable. It made the past bitter and confused.”
Cassandra Clare
The Fall of the Hotel Dumort
“Because that was what you did with family when you’d been worried about them, you grabbed them and held on to them and told them how much they’d pissed you off, and it was okay, because no matter how angry you got, they still belonged to you.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Glass
“Because the world isn’t divided into the special and the ordinary. Everyone has the potential to be extraordinary. As long as you have a soul and free will, you can be anything, do anything, choose anything.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Heavenly Fire
“Because viewing my naked chest has caused many women to seriously injure themselves stampeding to get to me.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Lost Souls
“Being remembered, and remembered so kindly, touched him more than he would have thought possible.”
Cassandra Clare
The Midnight Heir
“Being told that love is forbidden does not kill love. It strengthens it.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“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.”
Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Prince
“But even if they fit differently now, they still fit like sisters.”
Cassandra Clare
Queen of Air and Darkness
“But even the strongest tree can have a weak branch.”
Cassandra Clare
The Lost Herondale
“But he seized up the poker from where he’d left it and stalked out of the room. Lucie hurried after him, wondering what it was that made the Blackthorns so fond of using fireplace tools as weapons.”
Cassandra Clare
Chain of Thorns
“But I guess that’s what a relationship seems like to me: that no matter what else is going on, you’re happiest when you’re together.”
Cassandra Clare
The Bane Chronicles
“But I know your blood doesn’t define you. What define you is the choices you make. If I’ve learned anything this year, it’s that. And I also know that loving someone-even when it’s scary, even when there are consequences-is never the wrong thing to do. Loving someone is the opposite of hurting her.”
Cassandra Clare
Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy
“But I watch my brothers give their hearts away and I think, Don’t you know better? Hearts are breakable. And I think even when you heal, you’re never what you were before.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Fallen Angels
“But if home suddenly becomes not like home, what then?”
Cassandra Clare
Shadowhunters and Downworlders
“But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Fallen Angels
“But the name Magnus Bane made him think of a towering sort of figure, with huge shoulders and formal purple warlock’s robes, calling down fire and lightning. Not Magnus himself, who was more of a cross between a panther and a demented elf.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“But you cannot fix someone. In the end, if they can be fixed at all, they must do the repairs themselves.”
Cassandra Clare
Chain of Thorns
“But you can’t cure an addict who doesn’t want to be cured.”
Cassandra Clare
The Bane Chronicles
“Change is not always accomplished peacefully, but that does not make it disadventageous.”
Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Prince
“Choosing what’s right for you, maybe that’s the bravest thing you can do.”
Cassandra Clare
Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy
“Church was doing what he often did when dropped – lying on his back with all four legs in the air, pretending to be dead in order to induce guilt in his owners.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Lost Souls
“Cities have the capability to at any moment shift out of the familiar, even if you’ve lived in one all your life.”
Cassandra Clare
Shadowhunters and Downworlders
“Clary, you’re an artist, like your mother. That means you see the world in ways that other people don’t. It’s your gift, to see the beauty and the horror in ordinary things. It doesn’t make you crazy—just different. There’s nothing wrong with being different.”
Cassandra Clare
The Mortal Instruments
“Come back victorious or on the hairbrushes of your soldiers!”
Cassandra Clare
Cast Long Shadows
“Desire is not always lessened by disgust. Nor can it be bestowed, like a favor, to those most deserving of it. And as my words bind my magic, so you can know the truth. If she doesn’t desire his kiss, she won’t be free.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“Despite everything, I can’t bear the thought of this ring being lost forever, any more than I can bear the thought of leaving you forever. And though I have no choice about the one, at least I can choose about the other.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Glass
“Did she know how beautiful she was? Did she know her eyes were the color of liquid gold, and that songs could be written about the way she turned out her wrist to reach for her glass?”
Cassandra Clare
Ghosts of the Shadow Market
“Different Marks do different things. Some are permanent but the majority vanish when they’ve been used.”
Cassandra Clare
The Mortal Instruments
“Divided we stand,’ Simon thought, his stubborn biceps refusing to bulge. ‘United we do push-ups.”
Cassandra Clare
The Lost Herondale
“Do not seek revenge and call it justice.”
Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Princess
“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.”
Cassandra Clare
The Midnight Heir
“Doing the right thing because you love someone sucks sometimes.” (Cassandra Clare Quotes)
Cassandra Clare
City of Glass
“Don’t worry, hero. If the vamp shows up, I’m here to protect you.” “Great, I can hide behind your massive ego.”
Cassandra Clare
The Lost Herondale
“Don’t bother her, don’t try to talk to her, don’t even look at her, or I’ll fold you in half so many times you’ll look like a tiny little origami werewolf.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Fallen Angels
“Don’t look pleased with yourself. When Will says ‘enterprising, ‘ he means ‘morally deficient. ‘” “No, I mean enterprising, ” said Will. “When I mean morally deficient, I say, ‘Now, that’s something I would have done. ”
Cassandra Clare
The Mortal Instruments
“Don’t you think ‘Mark is kind of a weird name for a Shadowhunter?” Julian was saying as Emma approached. “I mean, if you really think about it. It’s confusing. ‘Put a Mark on me, Mark.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Heavenly Fire
“Emma thought of Julian, sitting here, in this office. Year after year, from the time he was twelve and all scraped elbows and torn jeans. He would sit patiently with pen and ink, writing his letter to the Clave, petitioning them to let his sister Helen come home from Wrangel Island.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“Enjoying life was essential, but sometimes it was an effort.”
Cassandra Clare
The Red Scrolls of Magic
“Eternity is a long time to spend alone, without others of your kind.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Fallen Angels
“Even in the midst of heartbreak, you could still find yourself laughing.”
Cassandra Clare
The Bane Chronicles
“Even places you know well can take on a touch of the unknown when you arrive there from a different direction.”
Cassandra Clare
Shadowhunters and Downworlders
“Every choice has a long afterlife of consequences. No one can know the eventual outcome of any decision. All you can do is making the best choice you can make in the moment.”
Cassandra Clare
Queen of Air and Darkness
“Every decision you make, makes you. Never let other people choose who you’re going to be.”
Cassandra Clare
The Lost Herondale
“Every meeting led to a parting, and so it would, as long as life was mortal. In every meeting there was some of the sorrow of parting, but in everything parting there was some of the joy of meeting as well.”
Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Princess
“Every student, Shadowhunter and mundane alike, knew the name Herondale. It was Jace’s last name. It was the name of heroes.”
Cassandra Clare
The Lost Herondale
“Every teenager in the world feels like that, feels broken or out of place, different somehow, royalty mistakenly born into a family of peasants. The difference in your case is that it’s true.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Bones
“Every time you almost die, I almost die myself.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“Every world contains worlds within it. People wander through all the worlds they can find, searching for their homes.”
Cassandra Clare
Ghosts of the Shadow Market
“Everybody in this academy, Shadowhunters and mundanes, people with the Sight and without it, every one of them is looking to be a hero. We are all hoping for it, and trying for it, and soon we will all be bleeding for it.”
Cassandra Clare
Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy
“Everyone gets the time they get together, and no more. Maybe we’re not so different that way.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Heavenly Fire
“Everyone has choices to make; no one has the right to take those choices away from us. Not even out of love..”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“Everyone is afraid of something. We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people because we love them. We fear dying because we value being alive. Don’t wish you didn’t fear anything. All that would mean is that you didn’t feel anything.”
Cassandra Clare
Lord of Shadows
“Everyone is more than one thing,” said Kieran. “We are more than single actions we undertake, whether they be good or evil.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“Everything about Magnus was strange, but nice.”
Cassandra Clare
The Red Scrolls of Magic
“Everything changes in my life, and the world stays the same.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“Everything that happens to you matters to me.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Fallen Angels
“Excuse me, Bane?” said Roderick Morgenstern. “Are you attending?”
Cassandra Clare
“I’m so sorry,” Magnus said politely. “Somebody incredibly attractive just came into the room, and I ceased to pay attention to a word you were saying.”
Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale
“Faeries believed in promises over fidelity of body or heart.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“Faith isn’t never having any doubts; it’s having what you need to overcome them.”
Cassandra Clare
Queen of Air and Darkness
“Family isn’t blood. It’s the people who love you. The people who have your back.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Heavenly Fire
“Feeling this way was a particular kind of horror, having the emotions without the memories.”
Cassandra Clare
Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy
“Fiction is truth, even if it is not fact. If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your brain will live, but your heart will die.”
Cassandra Clare
Lord of Shadows
“For a moment Clary thought she might fall; she felt as if something essential had been torn away from her, an arm or a leg, and she stared at Jace in blank astonishment- what did he feel, did he feel nothing? She didn’t think she could bear it if he felt nothing.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“For as is often the happenstance with that which is precious and lost, when you find him again, he may well not be quite as you left him.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Lost Souls
“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.”
Cassandra Clare
The Lost Herondale
“For this I would be damned forever. For this I would have given up everything.”
Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Princess
“For years I have had no mirror; I have learned to make do. The eyes of another can be a mirror more effective than water. If you will look at me, I can see my reflection in yours”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“Fortunate are the ones who know the name of their heart. They are the ones whose hearts are never truly lost. They can always call their heart back home.”
Cassandra Clare
Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy
“Ghosts are memories, and we carry them because those we love do not leave the world”
Cassandra Clare
City of Heavenly Fire
“Go to faeries for gossip about vampires, to werewolves for gossip about faeries, and do not gossip about werewolves, because they try to bite your face off: that was Magnus’s motto.”
Cassandra Clare
Saving Raphael Santiago
“Grief can be so bad you can’t breathe, but that’s what it means to be human. We lose, we suffer, but we have to keep breathing.”
Cassandra Clare
Queen of Air and Darkness
“Grief could be like a wolf tearing your insides, and you would do anything to make it stop.”
Cassandra Clare
Queen of Air and Darkness
“Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change -Clary Fray”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“Hate is nothing when weighed against survival.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“Have you ever felt that your heart contained so much that it must surely break apart”
Cassandra Clare
City of Heavenly Fire
“Have you fallen in love with the wrong person yet?’ Jace said, “Unfortunately, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remains myself.”…”At least,” she said, “you don’t have to worry about rejection, Jace Wayland.” “Not necessarily. I turn myself down occasionally, just to keep it interesting.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Bones
“Haven’t you ever heard that modesty is an attractive trait?” “Only from ugly people,” Jace confided. “The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me.” He winked at the girls, who giggled and hid behind their hair.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Bones
“He believed in redemption, the inchoate grace in every person he met. It was one of the few things he had to believe in, the possibility of beauty when faced with the reality of so much ugliness.”
Cassandra Clare
The Bane Chronicles
“He can touch your soul. And there is a difference between having your heart break and having your soul shatter.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“He carefully maintained the blasé air of one who had been here before and had been incredibly well dressed that time too”
Cassandra Clare
The Bane Chronicles
“He could barely believe any of his new memories, but the idea that Isabelle Lightwood had been his girlfriend seemed more unbelievable than the fact that vampires were real and Simon had been one.”
Cassandra Clare
Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy
“He did not know if this was indomitable Isabelle crying, or whether it was sparkly mascara. All he knew was that she shone, like a constellation in the shape of a girl.”
Cassandra Clare
Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy
“He found himself looking into many faces for potentional love, and seeing many people as shining vessels of possibility. Perhaps this time there would be that indefinable something that sent hungry hearts roving, longing and searching for something, they knew not what, and yet could not give up the quest.”
Cassandra Clare
Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale
“He grinned, and the grin changed his face completely. Ty when he was still and expressionless had an intensity that fascinated Kit; when he was smiling, he was extraordinary.”
Cassandra Clare
Lord of Shadows
“He had a few bruises and scrapes left over from the night on the train, and the night the mansion collapsed on them. By now they were faint, and ached only if he moved in a particular way. He could have healed himself anytime, but chose to let time heal the wounds. Not because he enjoyed the pain; far from it. When he had first learned to heal himself, he’d spent copious amounts of time and magic doing away with every single little hurt. Over the centuries, though, he’d learned that these minor injuries were part of life. Suffering through them made him appreciate being whole and well.”
Cassandra Clare
The Red Scrolls of Magic
“He had always known his parents loved him, but knowing that they loved the whole truth of him felt like putting down something very heavy that he’d been carrying for a long time, without realizing the weight of it.”
Cassandra Clare
Chain of Thorns
“He had become a monster. You just couldn’t see it…because it wore the face of a friend.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“He had never in his life felt a flicker of desire for any girl who wasn’t Emma, so it was something he’d never learned to do.”
Cassandra Clare
Lord of Shadows
“He hadn’t wanted to leave Emma, but at the same time he’d thought it would help. Like an addict getting away from the source of his addiction.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“He held her close enough to kiss, close enough to whisper the most important secrets in the world, and he spoke to her as he would have wanted some good angel to speak to his family, to his own shivering young soul, long ago and in a land far away.”
Cassandra Clare
Saving Raphael Santiago
“He knew in the way that she was a part of him, the way her breathing was his breathing, and her dreams were his dreams, and her blood was his blood, and when her heart stopped he knew that his would too, and he would be glad, because he wouldn’t want to live one second in a world that didn’t have her in it.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“He longed sometimes with an almost physical ache just to say ‘My Husband’ and have it be true.”
Cassandra Clare
Ghosts of the Shadow Market
“He looked back at her, and when she saw the look on his face, she saw his eyes at Renwick’s, when he had watched the Portal that separated him from his home shatter into a thousand irretrievable pieces. He held her gaze for a split second, then looked away from her, the muscles in his throat working. ”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“He opened the window and Matthew crawled in, upsetting both James and the book from the window seat”
Cassandra Clare
Cast Long Shadows
“He put his sister’s card in his pocket. He left home for a strange new life and carried her love with him, as he had once before.”
Cassandra Clare
Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy
“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.”
Cassandra Clare
Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy
“He tried not to hug her too hard, even though she was kind of hugging him too hard. In fact, she was pretty much crushing his rib cage. He didn’t mind, though.”
Cassandra Clare
Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy
“He tried to learn seductive phrases in all languages, but the only Swedish he had ever really needed was, “Do you serve anything aside from pickled fish?” and “If you wrap me in furs, I can pretend to be your little fuzzy bear.”
Cassandra Clare
The Runaway Queen
“He wanted to make her laugh. He wanted to sit and listen to her talk about books until his ears fell off. 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.”
Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Prince
“He was beautiful and hopeful and hesitant, a heartbreaker who wore his heart on his sleeve.”
Cassandra Clare
The Bane Chronicles
“He was beautiful. The most beautiful thing she’d ever seen. She wanted to crawl inside his skin, live where he breathed.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“He who saves a single life, it is as if he has saved an entire world.”
Cassandra Clare
The Lost Herondale
“He wondered if you could be exhausted without knowing it, if hope could be lost not all at once but could slip away gradually, day by day, and vanish before you ever realized.”
Cassandra Clare
The Bane Chronicles
“He would not dishonor love by letting go. In the end, he chose to endure any pain rather than do that. Through the fire, as through the darkness, he held on.”
Cassandra Clare
Ghosts of the Shadow Market
“He’d always assumed that storybook moments like these were meant for Jace, Isabelle, anyone but him. Yet here he was.”
Cassandra Clare
The Red Scrolls of Magic
“He’d heard kids say terrible things before now. Adults poured poison in their minds, and then it came out of their mouths.”
Cassandra Clare
Ghosts of the Shadow Market
“Hearts are breakable,” Isabelle said. “And I think even when you heal, you’re never what you were before”.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Fallen Angels
“He’d learned his lesson a long time ago: Even in the midst of heartbreak, you could still find yourself laughing.”
Cassandra Clare
What Really Happened in Peru
“Heroes aren’t always the ones who win,” she said. “They’re the ones who lose, sometimes. But they keep fighting, they keep coming back. They don’t give up. That’s what makes them heroes.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Heavenly Fire
“Heros aren’t always the ones who win. They’re the ones who lose, sometimes. But they keep fighting, they keep coming back. They don’t give up. That’s what makes them heroes.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“He’s got a great sense of humor for a guy who never says anything.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Bones
“His fingers skimmed down her body, over skin and satin, and she shivered, leaning into him, and she was sure they both tasted like blood and ashes and salt, but it didn’t matter; the world, the city, and all it’s lights and life seemed to have narrowed down to this, just her and Jace, the burning heart of a frozen world.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Fallen Angels
“Hope is all that keeps us going sometimes, biscuit”
Cassandra Clare
City of Heavenly Fire
“How generous the universe could be, when he wanted to be!”
Cassandra Clare
The Runaway Queen
“How much love people have denied themselves through the ages because they believed they did not deserve it. As if the waste of love is not the greater tragedy.” (Cassandra Clare Quotes)
Cassandra Clare
Chain of Thorns
“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.”
Cassandra Clare
The Midnight Heir
“I always assume people are hiding parts of themselves from each other. People do that.”
Cassandra Clare
Shadowhunters and Downworlders
“I am a man” he told her, “and men do not consume pink beverages. Get thee gone woman, and bring me something brown.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Glass
“I am catastrophically in love with you.”
Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Princess
“I am here to determine my relationship.” Simon goggled. She couldn’t be talking about him. Could she? “Do you see that man?” Isabelle asked, pointing at Simon. Apparently she was talking about him. “That’s Simon Lewis, and he is my boyfriend. So if any of you think about trying to hurt him because he’s a mundie or–may the Angel have mercy on your soul–pursuing him romantically, I will come after you, I will hunt you down and I will crush you to powder.”
Cassandra Clare
Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy
“I am not perfectly certain I believe in marriage. Why have just one bonbon when you can have the box?”
Cassandra Clare
Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale
“I am saying the choices we make in captivity are not always the choices we make in freedom. And thus we question them. We cannot help it.”
Cassandra Clare
Lord of Shadows
“I am sorry, my darling, he told her. That was not fair of me, or well done. When I am with you, I want to forget what I am, but I cannot change it. A silent Brother can have no wife, no love.”
Cassandra Clare
Ghosts of the Shadow Market
“I can offer you my life, but it is a short life; I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many more beats it shall sustain”
Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Prince
“I can see why you like it here, there’s a thin layer of nerd all over everything.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Fallen Angels
“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.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“I can’t get enough adventure,” Magnus said lightly. “And adventure cannot get enough of me.”
Cassandra Clare
What Really Happened in Peru
“I could never hate you, for all my hate is reserved for myself. I have none left over for anyone else.”
Cassandra Clare
Chain of Thorns
“I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you.”
Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Prince
“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.”
Cassandra Clare
The Midnight Heir
“I didn’t call you because I’m tired of you only wanting me around when you need something. I’m tired of watching you be in love with someone else – someone, incidentally, who will never love you back. Not the way I do.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Glass
“I dislike boats,” Ragnor observed, looking around. “I get vilely seasick.” The turning green joke was too easy. Magnus was not going to stoop to make it.”
Cassandra Clare
What Really Happened in Peru
“I do my best to live by the rule of Law. But I make my own decisions. There’s always a higher law.” “You say that like it’s so easy to know what it is,” Simon said. “To be so sure of yourself, that you’re right, no matter what the Law says.”
Cassandra Clare
The Lost Herondale
“I don’t know what I want, except that I don’t want to give up yet.”
Cassandra Clare
Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy
“I don’t think I realized how much I would need someone in my life who would see the truth of me and offer me kindness, even though I had not asked for it. Even when I felt I did not deserve it.”
Cassandra Clare
Chain of Thorns
“I don’t want the world. I want you,” Alec said, and Magnus closed his eyes, as if the words almost hurt.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Heavenly Fire
“I don’t care,” Clary said. “He’d do it for me. Tell me he wouldn’t. If I were missing-” “He’d burn the whole world down till he could dig you out of the ashes. I know,” Alec said.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Lost Souls
“I don’t know how to live in the world as a Shadowhunter without Will. I don’t think i even want to. I am still a parabatai, but my other half is gone.”
Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Princess
“I don’t know where I belong,” he said, “But if you let me, I will try to belong here.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“I don’t think she doesn’t believe she can die. I think, just like you always did, she believes there are things worth dying for.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Lost Souls
“I don’t want to be a man,” said Jace. “I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can’t confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead.” “Well,” said Luke, “you’re doing a fantastic job.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“I fear I must agree,” Magnus murmured. He pressed a hand over his heart and his new peacock-blue waistcoast. “I strive to find some respect in my heart for you, but alas! It seems an impossible quest.”
Cassandra Clare
Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale
“I figured all your classes were stuff like Slaughter 101 and Beheading for Beginners.”
Cassandra Clare
The Mortal Instruments
“I had never realized before how much you can take from someone by not allowing them the words they need to describe themselves.”
Cassandra Clare
Lord of Shadows
“I hate it when you answer a question with a question.” “No you don’t, you think it’s charming.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Bones
“I have a high pain threshold. In fact, it’s more of a large and tastfully decorated foyer than a threshold. But I do get easily bored”
Cassandra Clare
City of Bones
“I have been in the land of Faerie for years and it is a place where mortal blood is turned to fire. It is a place of beauty and terror beyond what can be imagined here. I have ridden with the Wild Hunt. I have carved a clear path of freedom among the stars and outrun the wind. And no I am asked to walk upon the earth again.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“I have heard sometimes that men who lose an arm of a leg still feel that pain in those limbs, though they are gone,’ said Will. ‘It is like that sometimes. I can feel Jem with me, though he is gone, and it is like I am missing a part of myself.”
Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Princess
“I have very few rules in life, but one of them is to never decline an adventure. The others are: to avoid becoming romantically entangled with sea creatures; to always ask for what you want, because the worst thing that can happen is embarrassment but the best thing that can happen is nudity; to demand ready money up front; and to never play cards with Catarina Loss.”
Cassandra Clare
Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale
“I keep thinking about blood, I dream about it. Wake up thinking about it. Pretty soon I’ll be writing morbid emo poetry about it.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“I know how you are with your words, and, Will- I love all of them. Every word you say. The silly ones, the mad ones, the beautiful ones, and the ones that are only for me. I love them, and I love you.” – Tessa Gray”
Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Princess
“I know it’s wrong – God, it’s all kinds of wrong – but I just want to lie down with you and wake up with you, just once, just once ever in my life.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Glass
“I know you have nothing to worry about. I wasn’t in love with Mark. I’ll never be in love with anyone again who isn’t you.”
Cassandra Clare
Lord of Shadows
“I love you unconditionally,’ his mom had said, once or twice, when he was younger. ‘That’s how parents love. I love you no matter what.’ People said thing like that, without thinking of potential nightmare scenarios or horrific conditions, the whole changing and love slipping away. None of them ever dreamed love would be tested, and fail.”
Cassandra Clare
Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy
“I loved you recklessly from the moment I knew you. I never cared about the consequences. I told myself I did, I told myself you wanted me to, and so I tried, but I never did. I wanted you more than I wanted to be good. I wanted you more than I wanted anything, ever.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Heavenly Fire
“I rather think love is something like a book written just for us, a sort of holy text it is given to us to interpret.”
Cassandra Clare
Chain of Thorns
“I rather wonder what I am doing here. I enjoy city life, you know. The glittering lights, the constant companionship, the liquid entertainment. The lack of sudden monkeys.”
Cassandra Clare
What Really Happened in Peru
“I read once that explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog,” Mark said. “You find out how it works, but the frog dies in the process.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“I screwed her over. I didn’t want to see her screwed over by someone else.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Fallen Angels
“I see you’re trying to distract me from the real point here,” Magnus said instead. “You had a birthday – a perfect excuse for me to throw one of my famous parties – and you didn’t even tell me about it?”
Cassandra Clare
Saving Raphael Santiago
“I shall charm him with such force that when I am done, he will be left lying limply on the ground, trying to remember his own name.”
Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Prince
“I shall never eat duck again. I cannot believe I used to like duck. The duck betrayed me.”
Cassandra Clare
Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale
“I sometimes think there is nothing more painful than love denied. To love someone you cannot have, to stand beside your heart’s desire and be unable to take them in your arms. A love that cannot be requited. I can think of nothing more painful than that.”
Cassandra Clare
Ghosts of the Shadow Market
“I started grasping at moments that weren’t misery. Slowly, slowly, I found them.”
Cassandra Clare
Shadowhunters and Downworlders
“I still love Emma more than I ever thought was possible. I love her more every day, and more every time I try to stop. I love her like I’m being ripped in half.”
Cassandra Clare
Queen of Air and Darkness
“I think he’s handling it with grace. A lot of teenage boys would sulk, or lurk around under your window with a boom box.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Glass
“I think sometimes it’s too hard to believe in yourself. You just do the things you’re not sure you can do. You just act, in spite of not being certain. I don’t believe I can change the world-it sounds stupid to even talk about it-but I’m going to try.” (Cassandra Clare Quotes)
Cassandra Clare
Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy
“I think sometimes we are reckless with our hearts the way we are with our lives. When we give them away, we give every piece. And if we do not get what we so desperately need, how do we live?”
Cassandra Clare
City of Heavenly Fire
“I think they’ll probably put that on my gravestone. ‘He Was Heterosexual and Had Low Expectations.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Heavenly Fire
“I think where there has been love, there will always be embers, as the remains of a bonfire outlast the flame”
Cassandra Clare
Lord of Shadows
“I think you cannot root out love entirely. I think where there has been love, there will always be embers, as the remains of a bonfire outlast the flame.”
Cassandra Clare
Lord of Shadows
“I think you were the wrong person for the Jace that I was, but not the Jace that I am now, the Jace you helped make me. Who is, incidentally, a Jace I like much better than the old one. You’ve changed me for the better, and even if you left me, I would still have that.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Heavenly Fire
“I thought of love as a game. It is not a game. It is more serious than death.”
Cassandra Clare
Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale
“I thought perhaps that when you told me you did not love me that my own feelings would fall away and atrophy, but they have not. They have grown every day. I love you now more desperately, this moment, than I have ever loved you before, and in an hour I will love you more than that”
Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Princess
“I want my people to be protected, strong, and not to be driven into corners until they either become killers or are killed!”
Cassandra Clare
Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale
“I want to kiss you one more time before I die.”
Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Princess
“I was alive when the Dead Sea was just a lake that was feeling a little poorly.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“I was Marked by a very cute boy with terrible impulse control. I don’t remember because I was basically unconscious but everyone was mad at him when I woke up. The end, love Clary.”
Cassandra Clare
The Shadowhunter’s Codex
“I was pondering the Greek ideals of love. Agape, of course, the highest love, the love that Gods feel. Then eros, romantic love; and philia, the love of friends; and storge, the love of family.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“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.”
Cassandra Clare
The Midnight Heir
“I will always carry it with me, and the knowledge that it is the gifts we did not have the strength to ask for that matter the most.”
Cassandra Clare
Chain of Thorns
“I will find you,” Ragnor told him. “I will find whatever chest of absurd clothes you have. And I will bring a llama into the place where you sleep and make sure that it urinates on everything you possess.”
Cassandra Clare
What Really Happened in Peru
“I will never blame you for going and doing what suits you best. I want you to have a purpose. I want you to have something to live for, even if you don’t think you’re alive.”
Cassandra Clare
The Bane Chronicles
“I would like to specialize in being an immortal invulnerable killing machine who craves the blood of the living.”
Cassandra Clare
The Shadowhunter’s Codex
“I would take them in a bowl,” said Mark with a winning gaze. “It has been many years since I have eaten freely at my choice, fair one, and a plate of strawberries is all that I desire.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“I’m a mess, but I’m not an idiot. I just wanted to be alone and think depressing thoughts.”
Cassandra Clare
Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy
“I’m not gay,” said Raphael. “I’m not straight. I’m not interested.” “Your sexuality is ‘not interested’?” Alec asked curiously. Raphael said, “That’s right.”
Cassandra Clare
The Red Scrolls of Magic
“I’m pretty sure Isabelle can take care of herself.”
Cassandra Clare
The Lost Herondale
“I’m worried about Isabelle.”
Cassandra Clare
The Lost Herondale
“I’d like that, to have someone who would always watch my back. Someone who I could count on at the times when this scary world gets the scariest”
Cassandra Clare
Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy
“If I feel the urge to burst into flames, I’ll let you know. ” Simon never had much patience with Jace. “Look, did you ask me to come all the way uptown just so you could stare at me like I was something in a petri dish? Next time I’ll send you a photo. ” “And I’ll frame it and put it on my nightstand, ” said Jace sarcastically.”
Cassandra Clare
The Mortal Instruments
“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.”
Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Princess
“If I only jumped when I knew where I was going to land,” Magnus said, “I would never jump at all.”
Cassandra Clare
The Lost Book of the White
“If I was harsh with you, it was because I cannot bear to see you treat yourself as if you are worth nothing. Whatever part you might act to the contrary, I see you as you really are, my blood brother. Not just better than you pretend to be, but better than most people could hope to be.”
Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Prince
“If no one cares for you at all, do you even really exist?”
Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Prince
“If one could look this fabulous, one had an obligation to.”
Cassandra Clare
The Runaway Queen
“If she kissed him, would he taste like blood or cloves or a mixture of the two?”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“If there is a life after this one”, he said, “let me meet you in it, James Carstairs.”
Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Princess
“If there was one thing Julian’s life had taught him, it was that nothing was more dangerous than hope.”
Cassandra Clare
Lord of Shadows
“If there was one thing she was learning from all this, it was how easy it was to lose everything you had always thought you’d have forever.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Bones
“If there were such a thing as terminal literalism, you’d have died in childhood.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Bones
“If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your brain will live, but your heart will die”
Cassandra Clare
Lord of Shadows
“If You don’t give readers what they want, they’ll be mad at you. If you give them what they do want, they’ll be even more mad at you.”
Cassandra Clare
The Mortal Instruments
“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.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Glass
“If you insist on trying to get yourself killed, I insist on being the one who chooses what you wear while you recover.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Heavenly Fire
“If you never tell anyone the truth about yourself, eventually you start to forget. The love, the heartbreak, the joy, the despair, the things I did that were good, the things I did that were shameful-if I kept them all inside, my memories of them would start to disappear. And then I would disappear.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Heavenly Fire
“If you really love something, you never try to keep it the way it is forever. You have to let it be free to change.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“If you’ve been reading the Mortal Instruments for any length of time, you know that only two things are certain: Dead doesn’t necessarily mean dead, and you never know whose blood is going to wind up running through your veins.”
Cassandra Clare
Shadowhunters and Downworlders
“If you’re texting Magnus to say ‘I think u r kewl’ I’m going to kill you”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“I’ll just have them change the entry in the demonology textbook from ‘almost extinct’ to ‘not extinct enough for Alec. He prefers his monsters really, really extinct.’ Will that make you happy?”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“I’m afraid to answer that. I’ve heard that when I speak, it makes American women wish to strike me with umbrellas.”
Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Princess
“I’m so sorry. Somebody incredibly attractive just came into the room, and I ceased to pay attention to a word you were saying.”
Cassandra Clare
The Bane Chronicles
“In a city, with all of its enclaves and boundaries, both real and imagined, it is impossible not to feel the presence of those who are not like you and impossible not to feel like an outsider.”
Cassandra Clare
Shadowhunters and Downworlders
“In books or movies, people were either whisked away to a magical land in the clothes they were standing up in, or they glossed over the packing part entirely. Simon now felt he had been robbed of critical information by the media. Should he be putting the kitchen knives in his bag? Should he bring the toaster and rig it up as a weapon? Simon did neither of those things. Instead, he went with the safe option: clean underwear and hilarious T-shirts. Shadowhunters had to love hilarious T-shirts, right? Everyone loved hilarious T-shirts.”
Cassandra Clare
Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy
“In Paris one could have the eyes of a cat (as he did) and tell people it was a trick of fashion.”
Cassandra Clare
The Runaway Queen
“In the dark and the shadows where secrets lived, that was where Julian survived. It was how he had managed for years.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn’t matter how hard it was to make it. It matters that you did.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Glass
“Is that why you insist on carrying about enormous tomes everywhere you go, that you might visit violence upon innocent persons? Done to death by my best friend – my heart’s brother – my own dear parabatai-”
Cassandra Clare
Cast Long Shadows
“Is this the part where you start tearing off strips of your shirt to bind my wounds?” “If you wanted me to rip my clothes off, you should have just asked.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Bones
“Is this the part where you tell me you’re secretly in love with me? Vampire mojo strikes again.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Fallen Angels
“It does no one any good to look backward for too long and forget that the future lies ahead.”
Cassandra Clare
Queen of Air and Darkness
“It does seem about the time to learn a musical instrument”. He flourished his new prize, a little stringed instrument that looked like a cousin of the lute that the lute was embarrassed to be related to.”
Cassandra Clare
What Really Happened in Peru
“It had been a whim, and there was nothing Magnus attached more importance to than a whim.”
Cassandra Clare
The Runaway Queen
“It has been the privilege and the honor of my life to know you.”
Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Princess
“It is the gifts we did not have the strength to ask for that matter the most.”
Cassandra Clare
Chain of Thorns
“It lightens my heart to see you with it. We could all do with lighter hearts tonight.”
Cassandra Clare
Cast Long Shadows
“It means ‘Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of our Enemies Since 1234’.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Bones
“It really was getting difficult to be wonderful.”
Cassandra Clare
The Runaway Queen
“It was a bit warm. Still. If one could look this fabulous, one had an obligation to. One should wear everything, or one should wear nothing at all.”
Cassandra Clare
The Runaway Queen
“It was a sort of love few other people could understand. It was total and it was overwhelming and it could be cruel.” (Cassandra Clare Quotes)
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“It was a very bad idea. It was a terrible idea. It was the worst idea he had ever heard. It was irresistible.”
Cassandra Clare
The Runaway Queen
“It was as though each of them had discovered something unexpected but infinitely desirable. They were not yet sure of each other, but they wanted to be.”
Cassandra Clare
The Red Scrolls of Magic
“It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.”
Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Prince
“It was hard to live normally when you were constantly pretending you didn’t see what was going on in front of your face.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“It was like falling into the sun, falling together, hearts blazing with pale fire, and Simon knew he would never stop falling, knew that now that he’d grabbed hold of her again, he would never let go.”
Cassandra Clare
Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy
“It was sometimes inconvenient to have the gold-green, slit-pupilled eyes of a cat, but this was usually easily hidden with a small glamour, and if not, well, there were quite a few ladies-and men-who didn’t find it a drawback.”
Cassandra Clare
What Really Happened in Peru
“It was strange how your world could shift on its axis and everything you trusted could invert itself in what seemed like no time at all.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Lost Souls
“It was stupid to hope, she knew. But sometimes hope was all you had.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Lost Souls
“It was terrifying to love someone who was forbidden to you. Terrifying to feel something you could never speak of, something that was horrible to almost everyone you knew, something that could destroy your life.”
Cassandra Clare
Lord of Shadows
“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.”
Cassandra Clare
The Midnight Heir
“It wouldn’t be my move,” Jace agreed. “First the candy and flowers, then the apology letters, then the ravenous demon hordes. In that order.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Bones
“It’s a classic love story. I hit on him at a party, he asked me out, then we fought an epic magical battle between good and evil side by side, and now we need a vacation.”
Cassandra Clare
The Red Scrolls of Magic
“It’s fascinating. You know all these words, and they’re all English, but when you string them together into sentences, they just don’t make any sense.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Fallen Angels
“It’s hard to believe how much light you can find in the darkness, when you have someone who loves you.”
Cassandra Clare
Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy
“It’s like you don’t live in the real world. You live in a world of stories.’ As if that were a terrible thing.”
Cassandra Clare
Chain of Thorns
“It’s not easy,” Catarina corrected him. “It’s what it means to be alive. Remember what I said, Simon. Every decision you make, makes you. Never let other people choose who you’re going to be.”
Cassandra Clare
The Lost Herondale
“It’s always better to live the truth than to live a lie.”
Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Prince
“It’s easier to end someone else’s love for you than kill your love for them.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“It’s significantly more satisfying to kick a wall than it is to kick thin air. For the rebellious teen- or the teen who wants to feel like a rebel- a clearly defined law gives you something to define yourself against.”
Cassandra Clare
Shadowhunters and Downworlders
“It’s your gift, to see the beauty and the horror in ordinary things. It doesn’t make you crazy, just different.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Bones
“I’ve been thinking of installing a train in my house. It could bring me shrimp crackers from the kitchen.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“I’ve never asked him but I’m sure he has a fairly stringent policy about random teenagers lurking in his shrubbery.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Bones
“James still had his book tucked under his arm, but Matthew knew better than to fight doomed battles”
Cassandra Clare
Cast Long Shadows
“James thwacked him over the head with his book. it was a large book”
Cassandra Clare
Cast Long Shadows
“James wanted friends, but he had not wanted to be the kind of friend who people settled for, because they could not get any better. Except he was, as he had always secretly feared, tedious and poor company. He did not know why books had not taught him how to talk so other people wanted to listen.”
Cassandra Clare
Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy
“Jem is nothing but goodness. That he struck you last night only shows how capable you are of driving even saints to madness.”
Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Prince
“Jem said, “We want you to stay, and to know that the choice is entirely yours, and we wanted to show you something. We want you to know there is nothing in this house more precious to us than you.”
Cassandra Clare
Ghosts of the Shadow Market
“Jem stood up and held out his hand to Will. Without realizing it, he held his breath. Perhaps this was a dream after all, and when Jem touched him Will would vanish away again. But Will’s hand was warm and solid and strong, and Jem drew him up easily. Together they began to run lightly over the tiles of the roof. The night was very beautiful and warm, and they were both young.”
Cassandra Clare
Ghosts of the Shadow Market
“Julian wanted to laugh too. He wished he could. He wished he could forget the darkness that flickered at the edge of his vision. He wished he could close his eyes and fall, forgetting for one moment that there was no net stretched out below to catch him.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“Just because you call an electric eel a rubber duck doesn’t make it a rubber duck, does it? And God help the poor bastard who decides they want to take a bath with the duckie. (Jace Wayland)”
Cassandra Clare
City of Bones
“Just keep it in mind. Your my heart, Magnus Bane. Stay unbroken. for me.”
Cassandra Clare
The Lost Book of the White
“Kit straightened up. “Nope, I’m good. Come on Brother Hauntingly Attractive.” “There’s no need to mention this to Tessa.” “And Yet,” said Kit, “I’m gonna.”
Cassandra Clare
Ghosts of the Shadow Market
“Kit’s jaw was still set. Jem knew that look. Herondales were always flames, he thought. They loved and suffered as if they would burn away with the sheer force of their own fire.”
Cassandra Clare
Ghosts of the Shadow Market
“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.”
Cassandra Clare
The Midnight Heir
“Later Matthew would look back and remember it as his last happy day”
Cassandra Clare
Cast Long Shadows
“Laws are meaningless, child. There is nothing more important than love. And no law higher.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“Let me say to you what I said once, in an entirely different context to Catherine the Great,” Magnus declared. “My dear lady, you cannot afford me, and also, please leave that horse alone. Good night.”
Cassandra Clare
The Midnight Heir
“Let’s go see who can eat the most dumplings in the shortest amount of time. And duck! You really ought to try pressed duck! It’s a great delicacy.”
Cassandra Clare
Ghosts of the Shadow Market
“Life could not be entirely devoted to debauchery and monkeys. Magnus had to finance all the drinking somehow.”
Cassandra Clare
What Really Happened in Peru
“Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”
Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Princess
“Life is not a boat, beating us far away in a cruel, relentless tide from all we love. You are not lost to me on some forever distant shore. Life is a wheel.”
Cassandra Clare
Ghosts of the Shadow Market
“Life is short, and wisdom long to learn.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“Like all Herondales, his ability to love without measure, without end, was both his great gift and his great curse.”
Cassandra Clare
The Lost Herondale
“Look on the bright side,” said Simon, “If they need a human sacrifice, you can always offer me. I’m not sure the rest of you qualify anyway.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“Looking at either of them caused a pang in his chest. Looking at both of them started a dull, steady ache.”
Cassandra Clare
Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy
“Looking at him now-even if she hadn’t been in love with him, that part of her that was her mother’s daugher, that loved every beautiful thing for its beauty alone, would still have wanted him.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Glass
“Love and hate had their own secret languages, and Mark and Kieran were speaking in them now.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“Love could be a last hope and a star to steer by.”
Cassandra Clare
The Bane Chronicles
“Love did not overcome everything. Love did not always endure. All you had could be taken away, love could be the last thing you had, and then love could be taken too.” (Cassandra Clare Quotes)
Cassandra Clare
Saving Raphael Santiago
“Love didn’t make you weak, it made you stronger.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Glass
“Love is a contradiction.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Fallen Angels
“Love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Fallen Angels
“Love is the weakness of human beings.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“Love means you see someone.”…”Their touch stay on your skin and their voice stays in your ears and their thoughts stay in your min.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“Love was love; there was no spell to cure a broken heart that did not also destroy that heart’s capacity for love forever.”
Cassandra Clare
The Bane Chronicles
“Love, real love, is being seen. Being know. Knowing the ugliest part of someone, and loving them anyway. And…I guess I think two people in love become something else, something more than the sum of their parts, you know?”
Cassandra Clare
Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy
“Magic or nature, they were much the same thing to Magnus.”
Cassandra Clare
The Midnight Heir
“Magnus began to be truly alarmed. Will’s voice would have shaken, betraying that his cruelty had been part of his playacting, but his son’s laugh was that of someone genuinely delighted by the chaos erupting all around him”
Cassandra Clare
The Midnight Heir
“Magnus did not have enormous respect for the Law, but if he was breaking it he wanted to look good doing it.”
Cassandra Clare
The Bane Chronicles
“Magnus did not like to go near the Hotel Dumont if he could help it. It was decrepit and unsettling, it held bad memories, and it also occasionally held his evil former lady love.”
Cassandra Clare
Saving Raphael Santiago
“Magnus did not take such suffering lightly, but even mortals did not die of broken hearts. No matter how cruel Grace had been, he told himself, James would heal. Even though he was a Herondale.”
Cassandra Clare
The Midnight Heir
“Magnus had a list of favored traits in a partner-black hair, blue eyes, honest…”
Cassandra Clare
What Really Happened in Peru
“Magnus had always had a wanderer’s heart. Over the centuries, he had adventured in so many different places, always looking for something that would fulfill his restless hunger. He never realized how all the pieces could fall together, how home could be somewhere and someone. He belonged with Alec. His wandering heart could rest.”
Cassandra Clare
The Red Scrolls of Magic
“Magnus had learned to be careful about giving his memories with his heart. When people died, it felt like all the pieces of yourself you had given to them went as well. It took so long, building yourself back up until you were whole again, and you were never entirely the same.”
Cassandra Clare
What Really Happened in Peru
“Magnus had often thought of getting a pet, but he had never considered acquiring a sullen teenage vampire. Once Raphael was gone, he thought, he was getting a cat. And he would always throw his cat a birthday party.”
Cassandra Clare
Saving Raphael Santiago
“Magnus hoped if he ever went mad like that himself, so mad that he poisoned the very air round him and hurt everyone he came into contact with, that there would be someone ho loved him enough to stop him. To kill him, if it came to that.”
Cassandra Clare
Saving Raphael Santiago
“Magnus thought once again of the blue-eyed man standing in his parlor. Then he lit a match and burned the note.”
Cassandra Clare
The Runaway Queen
“Magnus was sure that the llama stampede he witnessed was a coincidence. The llamas could not be judging him.”
Cassandra Clare
What Really Happened in Peru
“Making promises you can’t keep is worse than making no promises at all.”
Cassandra Clare
Queen of Air and Darkness
“Mark had a smile that could break your heart. It seemed to take up his whole face and brighten his eyes, firing the blue and gold from inside.”
Cassandra Clare
Lord of Shadows
“Mark whirled on them. His eyes were blind, unseeing. “You bring the twins in front of me and you kill them over and over. My Ty, he doesn’t understand why I can’t save him. You bring me Dru and when she laughs to see the fairytale castle, all ringed round with hedges, you throw her against the thorns until their pierce her small body. And you bid me wash in Octavian’s blood for the blood of an innocent child is magic under the Hill.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“Matthew had not meant for Christopher to be asked to leave shadowhunter Academy, but as it emerged, they did not let you remain in school if you blew up any portion of it.”
Cassandra Clare
Cast Long Shadows
“Maybe that was why she couldn’t cry, she realized, staring dry-eyed at the ceiling. 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?”
Cassandra Clare
City of Glass
“Maybe warlocks only liked other warlocks. Though Magnus did seem to like Alec quite a lot.”
Cassandra Clare
Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy
“Memories were like love: wound and cure, both at once.”
Cassandra Clare
Ghosts of the Shadow Market
“Men may be stronger, but it is women who endure.”
Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Princess
“Mine is a complicated story, and people do not want to hear complicated stories. They want simple stories, in which people are either good or evil, and no one good ever makes a mistake, and no one evil ever repents.”
Cassandra Clare
Chain of Thorns
“Mom. I have something to tell you. I’m undead. Now, I know you may have some preconceived notions about the undead. I know you may not be comfortable with the idea of me being undead. But I’m here to tell you that undead are just like you and me … well, okay. Possibly more like me than you.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“Most people are lucky to have even one great love in their life. You have found two.”
Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Princess
“My heart tells me this is the best and greatest feeling I have ever had. But my mind knows the difference between wanting what you can’t have and wanting what you shouldn’t want. And I shouldn’t want you.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Glass
“My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Bones
“My sister has always insisted that there is nothing better for the ill than being read to.”
Cassandra Clare
Chain of Thorns
“My son, Simon Lewis, wants to sign up for a life where you have to do a hundred push-ups before breakfast?”
Cassandra Clare
The Lost Herondale
“My will and my desire were turned by love, the love that moves the sun and the other stars.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Fallen Angels
“Night was day, and day was night. There seemed no difference here in Belial’s London: the heavy clouds were constant, and while sometimes strange light shone, it cam irregularly, with no notice paid to time. Watches and clocks were still, or the hands spun unceasingly; the Institute’s inhabitants charted the time as best as they could using an hourglass taken from Will’s office.”
Cassandra Clare
Chain of Thorns
“No fewer than four of my esteemed elders told me I was on no account to ever converse with you, so I vowed that I would know you. My name is Edmund Herondale. May I ask your name? They reffered to you only as ‘that disgraceful one-warlock show.”
Cassandra Clare
Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale
“No matter how dark and hopeless the world seemed, Lucie could always find beauty in a story.”
Cassandra Clare
Ghosts of the Shadow Market
“No matter how long you lived, you never got used to seeing terrible things.”
Cassandra Clare
The Bane Chronicles
“No matter how terrifying, they need to decide that the only rules that matter are the ones they write themselves.”
Cassandra Clare
Shadowhunters and Downworlders
“No matter what the price offered, no Downworlder would fail to listen to a warning against one of the nephilim.”
Cassandra Clare
The Midnight Heir
“No mission is so dangerous it isn’t worth doing in style.” (Cassandra Clare Quotes)
Cassandra Clare
The Red Scrolls of Magic
“No more fantasies, no more dreams. He knew then that none of the illusions he’d tried to fool himself with had ever even come close. Every detail had been wrong, everything in the world had been wrong, and everything about himself.”
Cassandra Clare
Ghosts of the Shadow Market
“No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily.”
Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Princess
“No one is ever the villain of their own story.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“No one is strong and unyielding all the time, and none of us should be. We all have to let down our guard sometime. We are made up of different parts, sad and happy, strong and weak, solitary and in need of others. And there is nothing shameful about that.”
Cassandra Clare
Chain of Thorns
“No, I’m just a very naughty boy. I do all sorts of bad things. I kick kittens. I make rude gestures at nuns.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“No, said Jem, becuase he was always James Carstairs when he spoke of what was dearest to him.”
Cassandra Clare
Ghosts of the Shadow Market
“No. That’s Clary; shes’s my best friend.” Simon pocketed his phone. “And she has a boyfriend. Like, really, really, really has a boyfriend. The nuclear bomb of boyfriends. Trust me on this one.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Fallen Angels
“None of this is fair. It isn’t fair that part of your life was ripped from you. It’s not fair that you were ripped away from me. I’m so angry Simon.”
Cassandra Clare
Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy
“Not every girl can be Isabelle Lightwood or Katniss Everdeen. I think the true measure of a hero is what a person does with what they have, how hard they are willing to fight, and how far they are willing to go to set things right.”
Cassandra Clare
Shadowhunters and Downworlders
“Not everyone has the training to use every tool, and a weapon you don’t know how to wield is wasted.”
Cassandra Clare
Lord of Shadows
“Now she felt a restlessness that went beyond that; the old hopes felt too confining, as if they were a dress she had outgrown. Perhaps you outgrew your dreams, too, as your world expanded.”
Cassandra Clare
Queen of Air and Darkness
“Once you had lost everything, she reasoned, there was no reason not to embrace whatever small happinesses you could.”
Cassandra Clare
Chain of Thorns
“One can give up many things for love, but one should not give up oneself.”
Cassandra Clare
Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale
“One can give up many things for love, but should not give up oneself”
Cassandra Clare
The Bane Chronicles
“One did not turn down an invitation from Saint Cloud. At least, one didn’t if one wanted to continue living contentedly in Paris. Vampires took offense so easily – and Parisian vampires were the worst of all.”
Cassandra Clare
The Runaway Queen
“One does no question miracles, or complain that they are no constructed perfectly to one’s liking.”
Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Princess
“One of the things he’d always loved about Clary was how easily caught up in her imagination she was, how easily she could wall herself away in illusory worlds of curses and princes and destiny and magic.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Fallen Angels
“Or maybe it’s just that beautiful things are so easily broken by the world.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Fallen Angels
“Our failings are always more monstrous in our own eyes than any others, in the eyes of those who love us, we are forgiven.”
Cassandra Clare
Chain of Thorns
“Our role is to stand behind the open gates and turn them back one by one. And so we fight.”
Cassandra Clare
The Shadowhunter’s Codex
“Pain made you strong. Loss made you powerful.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Lost Souls
“Patience, grasshopper,” said Maia. “Good things come to those who wait.” “I always thought that was ‘Good things come to those who do the wave,'” said Simon. “No wonder I’ve been so confused all my life.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Glass
“People are afraid of anybody who is different: It makes them worry everyone else is different too, and just pretending to be all the same.”
Cassandra Clare
Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy
“People are more than one thing. Warlocks, no less. I would not even hesitate to say that Malcolm once did much good, before he did evil. It is one of the great lessons of growing up, learning that people can do both.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“People aren’t born good or bad. Maybe they’re born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Glass
“People were made up of all sorts of different bits, Dru thought. Funny bits and romantic bits and selfish bits and brave bits. Sometimes you saw only a few of them. Maybe it was when you saw them all that you realised you knew someone really well.”
Cassandra Clare
Queen of Air and Darkness
“People who are not trusted become untrustworthy.”
Cassandra Clare
Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy
“Picture this,” said Magnus. “Me with a little monkey friend. I could teach him tricks. I could dress him in a cunning jacket. He could look just like me! But more monkey-shaped.”
Cassandra Clare
What Really Happened in Peru
“Places, like people, are complex, and loving them isn’t simple.”
Cassandra Clare
Shadowhunters and Downworlders
“Popularity gives you power only over people who care about being popular. Ostracism gives you power only over those who fear being ostracized.”
Cassandra Clare
Shadowhunters and Downworlders
“Ragnor and Catarina both begged him to give the instrument up. Random strangers on the street begged him to give the instrument up. Even cats ran away from him.”
Cassandra Clare
What Really Happened in Peru
“Ragnor stayed for thirteen days. They were the longest thirteen days of Magnus’s life. Every time Magnus tried to have a little fun, there they were, the short one and the green one, shaking their heads in tandem and then saying snotty things. On one occasion Magnus turned his head very quickly and saw them exchanging a fist bump.”
Cassandra Clare
The Bane Chronicles
“Ragnor’s important business was probably getting together to write a burn book with Raphael. Magnus could see them now, sharing a bench and scribbling happily away about Magnus’s stupid hair.”
Cassandra Clare
The Bane Chronicles
“Remember, children, all the stories are true.” Simon tried to wrap his head around the idea that there might, somewhere in Germany, be a large bean stalk with an angry giant at the top.”
Cassandra Clare
The Lost Herondale
“Respectable Shadowhunters are not supposed to bring my sort home to meet Mom and Dad. I have a past. I have several pasts. Besides, good Shadowhunter boys aren’t meant to bring home boyfriends at all.”
Cassandra Clare
The Red Scrolls of Magic
“See, Jace never learned how to flirt properly, because he was raised by a murderous sociopath.”
Cassandra Clare
Shadowhunters and Downworlders
“Shadowhunters are slow to love but once we love, we love forever.”
Cassandra Clare
Queen of Air and Darkness
“Shadowhunters lived through scars. Sometimes he thought they lived for them.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“She did not belong to Will-she was too much herself to belong to anyone, even Jem-but she belonged with them, and silently he cursed the Consul for not seeing it.”
Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Princess
“She had an uncanny ability to inject reason and even humor into the darkest situation.”
Cassandra Clare
Chain of Thorns
“She had wondered, when he’d looked into her eyes and said that he’d had to learn to make do without mirrors in the Wild Hunt, whose eyes he’d been looking into for all those years. Who’d been his mirror.
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“She has seen so many tragedies, and they both knew the worst tragedies were born of love.”
Cassandra Clare
The Red Scrolls of Magic
“She knew he couldn’t love her, but in that moment it felt as if he did.”
Cassandra Clare
Queen of Air and Darkness
“She might be anything she pleased. She was everything already.”
Cassandra Clare
Ghosts of the Shadow Market
“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.”
Cassandra Clare
The Midnight Heir
“She seemed shy, yet all her attention was focused on Magnus, as if he were the most fascinating thing she had ever seen. There was no man who did not want to see himself reflected like that in a beautiful girl’s eyes.”
Cassandra Clare
The Midnight Heir
“She soared above the ground, and he kept her tethered to the earth. Without him she would be lost among the clouds.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“She supposed they were imperfections, those marks, but they didn’t feel that way to her; they were a history, cut into his body: the map of a life of endless war.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Glass
“She tried to believe that some part of him was still in there, seeing her, and longing to be seen.”
Cassandra Clare
Ghosts of the Shadow Market
“She turned to look at Sebastian, lying on the bed. He was shirtless, and even in the dim light the old whip weals across his back were visible. She had always been fascinated by Shadowhunters but had never thought she would find one whose personality she could stand for more than five minutes, until Sebastian.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Heavenly Fire
“She wanted to tell him, but she couldn’t. It wouldn’t be fair. It would be asking something of Jem that he couldn’t deliver, and the world had already asked far too much of him.”
Cassandra Clare
Ghosts of the Shadow Market
“She was like an avenging angel, her vengeance swift and deadly.”
Cassandra Clare
The Lost Herondale
“She was the wielder of Cortana, and she was not here to miurn. She was here to avenge.”
Cassandra Clare
Chain of Thorns
“She would take the blow. She would harden herself and laugh in the face of pain.”
Cassandra Clare
Ghosts of the Shadow Market
“Simon bristled. She wasn’t his Isabelle, not anymore. He wondered if she ever truly had been. Isabelle didn’t seem like the type of girl to belong to someone. It was one of the things he liked best about her.”
Cassandra Clare
The Lost Herondale
“Simon looked for his friend Jace, who was kneeling by himself in the overgrown grass and sharpening a short blade against a stone. Simon assumed Jace had his reasons for this; or possibly he just knew he looked cool doing it. Possibly he and Isabelle could do a joint photo shoot for Badass Monthly.”
Cassandra Clare
Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy
“Simon rolled his eyes. Apparently, all Shadowhunter dudes were underwear models, including his new roommate. His life was a joke. Julie seemed”
Cassandra Clare
Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy
“Simon was still hoping that somewhere in the Sadowhunter manual was the secret of the Vulcan death grip. After all, as his instructors kept reminding them: All the stories are true.”
Cassandra Clare
The Lost Herondale
“Simon was still trying to work out how Shadowhunter government and also Shadowhunter family trees worked. They all seemed to be related to each other and it was very disturbing.”
Cassandra Clare
Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy
“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.”
Cassandra Clare
The Bane Chronicles
“So far,” said Magnus, “life seems to me to be a matter of choosing love, over and over, even knowing that it makes you vulnerable, that it might hurt you later. Or even sooner. You just have no choice. You choose to love or you choose to live in an empty world with no one there but you. And that seems like a truly terrible way to spend eternity.”
Cassandra Clare
The Lost Book of the White
“So here’s where they put you. I didn’t think they even used these cells anymore.” He glanced sideways. “I got the wrong window at first. Gave your friend in the next cell something of a shock. Attractive fellow, what with the beard and the rags. Kind of reminds me of the street folk back home.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Glass
“So it’s true. You can walk in sunlight. I thought perhaps it might have worn off.” “If I feel the urge to burst into flames, I’ll let you know.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Glass
“So stop talking about what a loser you are, because I wouldn’t follow a loser into a slime-covered bedroom or a slime-covered bathroom, and I’ve followed you into both.” George paused and said aggressively: “And I would really like to change the phrasing of that last sentence, because it sounded so bad, but I’m not sure how.”
Cassandra Clare
Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy
“Some lights were never meant to burn for long.”
Cassandra Clare
Queen of Air and Darkness
“Some secrets, she thought, were better told; some were better left the burden of the carrier, that they might not cause pain to others.”
Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Princess
“Somebody incredibly attractive just came into the room, and I ceased to pay attention to a word you were saying.”
Cassandra Clare
Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale
“Something inside Clary cracked and broke, and words came pouring out. ‘What do you want me to tell you? The truth? The truth is that I love Simon like I should love you, and I wish he was my brother and you weren’t, but I can’t do anything about that and neither can you!”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“Sometimes he thought they were all forsaken, every soul on this earth.”
Cassandra Clare
Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale
“Sometimes it seemed like her face was all the heart he had left.”
Cassandra Clare
Cast Long Shadows
“Sometimes one must choose whether to be kind or honorable,” he said. “Sometimes one cannot be both.”
Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Princess
“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.”
Cassandra Clare
Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy
“Sometimes she thought the only things she had faith in were revenge and Julian.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“Sometimes the bravest thing we can do is confront our own failings.” (Cassandra Clare Quotes)
Cassandra Clare
Queen of Air and Darkness
“Sometimes the most ruthless heart speaks the most truth”
Cassandra Clare
Lord of Shadows
“Sometimes the newly Marked go into shock. The good news is, if this happens to you, you are unlikely to notice, because you will be in shock.”
Cassandra Clare
The Shadowhunter’s Codex
“Sometimes when she looks at him that way he finds himself almost blushing; a feeling so strange he almost doesn’t recognize it. Jace Wayland doesn’t blush.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Bones
“Sometimes when you start a war, you want to make pancakes.”
Cassandra Clare
Queen of Air and Darkness
“Sometimes you don’t have to search out danger, sometimes danger finds you”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“Sometimes you have to let people blame you. When the only other option is letting bad things happen, it doesn’t matter what people think.”
Cassandra Clare
Queen of Air and Darkness
“Sometimes you must lose everything to gain it again, and the regaining is the sweeter for the pain of loss.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Heavenly Fire
“Sometimes you need to guard people against the things they want, as well as the things they fear.”
Cassandra Clare
Queen of Air and Darkness
“Sometimes, love worked, past any hope of change, when no other force in this world could. Without love, the miracle never came.”
Cassandra Clare
The Red Scrolls of Magic
“Sometimes, she thought, it was as if she were a kite, and Julian the flier: She soared above the ground, and he kept her tethered to the earth. Without him she would be lost among the clouds.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“Speaking of luck, Isabelle Lightwood is a total babe. Actually, she’s better than a babe: She’s a hero. She came all the way here to tell the world you were hers. You’re telling me she doesn’t know another hero when she sees one? You’re going to figure out what you’re doing here. Isabelle Lightwood believes in you, and for what it’s worth, I do too.”
Cassandra Clare
Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy
“Still I pictured having you for fifty, sixty more years. I thought I might be ready then to let you go. But it’s you, and I realize now that I won’t be anymore ready to lose you then than I am right now. Which is not at all.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Fallen Angels
“Sympathy is common. Knowing the exact shape of the hole someone’s loss leaves in your heart is rare.”
Cassandra Clare
Queen of Air and Darkness
“Temper us in fire, and we grow stronger. When we suffer, we survive.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Heavenly Fire
“Tessa touched his wrist lightly with her hand. “Be brave,” she said. “It’s not a duck, is it?”
Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Princess
“That the future isn’t fixed. If we see a path in front of us that we would not choose, then we can choose another path. Another future.”
Cassandra Clare
Ghosts of the Shadow Market
“That was the last cruel irony of Tobias’s life: that he doomed the woman he would have died to save.”
Cassandra Clare
The Lost Herondale
“That was what humans did: They left on another messages through time, pressed between pages or carved into rock. Like reaching out a hand through time, and trusting in a phantom hoped-for hand to catch yours. Humans did not last forever. They could only hope what they made would endure.”
Cassandra Clare
What Really Happened in Peru
“That was what humans did: They left one another messages through time, pressed between pages or carved into a rock. Like reaching out a hand through time, and trusting in a phantom hoped-for hands to catch yours. Humans did not live forever. They could only hope what they made would endure.”
Cassandra Clare
The Bane Chronicles
“That’s why when major badasses greet each other in movies, they don’t say anything, they just nod. The nod means, ‘I’ am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass,’ but they don’t say anything because they’re Wolverine and Magneto and it would mess up their vibe to explain.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Bones
“The Academy days were half physical activity. It was like half the day was gym. Stabby, stabby gym.”
Cassandra Clare
Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy
“The bad things can’t matter more than the good things”
Cassandra Clare
Lord of Shadows
“The beauty of fantasy is that it allows the protagonist to pass through fear to come to know this different reality and to find a place in it.”
Cassandra Clare
Shadowhunters and Downworlders
“The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he’d learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Bones
“The boy was standing alone as though the broken glass all around him were a shining sea and he were an island.”
Cassandra Clare
The Midnight Heir
“The bridge reminded her that there was still someone in the world that she loved. That even if half of her heart was gone forever, the other half was still here. Unreachable, maybe, but here.”
Cassandra Clare
Ghosts of the Shadow Market
“The compass of Magnus’s soul spun freely within him, and he’d long been used to that.”
Cassandra Clare
The Red Scrolls of Magic
“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.”
Cassandra Clare
The Midnight Heir
“The cult was a joke. Life was a joke, and the fact that his life would never end was its bad punch line.”
Cassandra Clare
The Red Scrolls of Magic
“The eyes of another can be a mirror more effective than water. If you will look at me, I can see my reflection in yours.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“The funny thing about mundies is how obsessed with magic they are for a bunch of people who don’t even know what the word means.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Bones
“The Herondales are a rather infamous line, as you probably know. Many of them heroes, some of them traitors, so many of them brash, wild creatures consumed by their passions, whether it be love or hate.”
Cassandra Clare
The Lost Herondale
“The Institute has a very old magic woven into its walls. I shall now use it to commune with my mother, wherever she might be found.” He put his hands around his mouth and bellowed at the top of his lungs.”
Cassandra Clare
The Lost Book of the White
“The last guest lecturer to honor the students with her presence had been Isabelle Lightwood. And the ‘lecture’ had consisted of a stern and humiliating warning that every female in a ten-mile radius should keep her grubby littler hands off Simon’s hot bod. Fortunately, the tall, dark-haired man who strode to the front of the classroom looked unlikely to have any interest in Simon or his bod.”
Cassandra Clare
The Lost Herondale
“The Law is hard, but it’s the Law,” Simon added in disgust. “So freaking what? If the Law is wrong, why not change it? Do you know what the world would look like if we were still following the laws made up back in the Dark Ages?” “You know who else used to talk like that?” Jon asked ominously. “Let me guess: Valentine.” Simon scowled. “Because apparently in all of Shadowhunter history only one guy has bothered to ask any questions.”
Cassandra Clare
The Lost Herondale
“The letter I received said you had need of my particular talents, but I must confess that I have so many talents that I am not sure which one you require.”
Cassandra Clare
What Really Happened in Peru
“The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Bones
“The more you try to crush your true nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Fallen Angels
“The most remarkable thing about him were his eyes. They were laughing eyes, at once both joyous and tender: they were the radiant pale blue of a sky slipping toward evening in Heaven, when angels who had been sweet all day found themselves tempted to sin.”
Cassandra Clare
Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale
“The most terrible things men do, they do in the name of love.”— Madame Dorothea”
Cassandra Clare
City of Bones
“The night was very beautiful and warm, and they were both young.” (Cassandra Clare Quotes)
Cassandra Clare
Ghosts of the Shadow Market
“The nod means ‘I am a badass, and I recognise that you too, are a badass.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“The only thing more dangerous than a willingness to ignore the Law is an ability to change it.”
Cassandra Clare
Shadowhunters and Downworlders
“The problem was that Simon did not know how to pack like a badass.”
Cassandra Clare
Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy
“The rules are the rules for a reason. Being a Shadowhunter, a good one, is about more than just training fourteen hours a day and knowing sixty-five ways of killing a man with salad tongs.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“The sea wears down cliffs, Emma, and turns them into sand; so love wears us down and breaks our defences. You only do not know how much it means, to have people who will fight for you when it goes wrong.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“The sky was a road and the stars made pathways; the moon was a watchtower, a lighthouse that led you home.”
Cassandra Clare
Queen of Air and Darkness
“The story that I love you, it has no end.”
Cassandra Clare
Queen of Air and Darkness
“The thing she loved most about being Jewish was that you could step into a synagogue anywhere on earth and feel like you’d come home. India, Brazil, New Zealand, even Mars—if you could rely on Shalom, Spacemen!, the homemade comic book that had been the highlight of Simon’s third-grade Hebrew school experience.”
Cassandra Clare
The Lost Herondale
“The things I want are wrong and broken things to want.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“The trousers and jacket do not make me a man, and the necklace does not make me a woman. They are only what makes me feel beautiful and powerful in this moment. I am exactly as I choose to be.”
Cassandra Clare
Ghosts of the Shadow Market
“The two of them were sharing one side of the carriage, as it had become quickly apparent on the first day of their journey that Will needed the entire other side for dramatic gesturing.”
Cassandra Clare
Chain of Thorns
“The universe could be a wondrous thing. The universe had out did herself. The universe would be getting flowers.”
Cassandra Clare
The Bane Chronicles
“The wishes of our hearts are weapons that can be used against us.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Heavenly Fire
“The world is a wheel. When we rise or fall, we do it together.”
Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Princess
“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.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“The wound is the place where the light enters you”
Cassandra Clare
Chain of Thorns
“Their closeness wouldn’t break, but it would bend and stretch into a new shape.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“Their oldest child, James, had spoken laughingly about Will’s unrelenting fear of ducks and his continual battle to keep them out of the pond at the family home in Yorkshire.”
Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Princess
“Then again, it was Jace. He’d pick a fight with a Mack truck if the urge took him.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“Then I lost him for a brief period of time, and by the time I caught up with him, he had wandered into Hyde Park, waded into the Serpetine, spread his arms wide, and was shouting, ‘Ducks, embrace me as your king!”
Cassandra Clare
The Midnight Heir
“Then Magnus had looked up from his spell books, seen him, and smiled. And Alec’s heart had stopped its frantic pounding, like a prisoner desperate to escape. Alec thought he could be all right just standing in that doorway, watching Magnus smiling to see him, for the rest of his life.”
Cassandra Clare
The Red Scrolls of Magic
“There are a few things that even sarcasm can’t protect you from.”
Cassandra Clare
Shadowhunters and Downworlders
“There are a hundred trillion cells in the human body, and every single one of the cells of my body loves you. We shed cells, and grow new ones, and my new cells love you more than the old ones, which is why I love you more every day than I did the day before. It’s science. And when I die and they burn my body and I become ashes that mix with the air, and part of the ground and the trees and the stars, everyone who breathes that air or sees the flowers that grow out of the ground or looks up at the stars will remember you and love you, because I love you that much.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Heavenly Fire
“There are memories that time does not erase… Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Heavenly Fire
“There are more hidden spaces in a city, more hidden lives and hidden emptinesses, and more darkened windows where shadow people pass fleetingly in and out of sight.”
Cassandra Clare
Shadowhunters and Downworlders
“There are more kinds of love than stars. If you do not feel one, there are many others. You know what it is to care for family and friends. What we keep sacred, keeps us safe. Consider that by trying to cut yourself off the possibility of being hurt, you shut the door on love and live in darkness.”
Cassandra Clare
Ghosts of the Shadow Market
“There are so many worse things than death. Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse.”
Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Princess
“There are some kinds of wounds you can get, internal injuries. You don’t know what’s wrong with you, but you’re bleeding to death slowly inside.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Glass
“There are things our souls want, and mine wants you.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Heavenly Fire
“There is no god, not a god who would create the things I saw”
Cassandra Clare
The Mortal Instruments
“There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.”
Cassandra Clare
Chain of Thorns
“There is no pretending”,Jace said with absolute clarity.”I love you,and I will love you until I die,and if there’s a life after that,I’ll love you then.” She caught her breath.He had said it-the words there was no going back from.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Glass
“There is no shame in caring about someone. Even if it hurts.”
Cassandra Clare
Chain of Thorns
“There is truth in stories,” said Arthur. “There is truth in one of your paintings, boy or in a sunset or a couplet from Homer. 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.”
Cassandra Clare
Lord of Shadows
“There might be a God, Clary, and there might not, but I don’t think it matters. Either way, we’re on our own.”
Cassandra Clare
The Mortal Instruments
“There was a brief pause for them to evaluate the full horror of the situation. Magnus. personally, was in horror up to his elbows.”
Cassandra Clare
What Really Happened in Peru
“There was a time, not so long ago, when Simon Lewis had been convinced that all gym teachers were actually demons escaped from some hell dimension, nourishing themselves on the agonies of uncoordinated youth. Little did he know he’d been almost right.”
Cassandra Clare
The Lost Herondale
“There was also the fact that sometimes vampires committed crimes worse than murder. They commited crimes against fashion.”
Cassandra Clare
Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale
“There was beauty in the idea of freedom, but it was an illusion. Every human heart was chained by love.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“There was dancing to wear your feet down, and there were beautiful boys and girls, and kisses were cheaper than wine but the wine was sweet and the fruit sweeter. And you could still hear the music in your head.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“There was no Jace Wayland more real than the one he saw in her eyes when she looked at him.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“There was no way possible (the queen) could have done all of the things the pamphleteers claimed. The crimes were too gross, too immoral and far too physically challenging. Magnus himself had never attempted half of them.”
Cassandra Clare
The Runaway Queen
“There was something about Jace, though, that made her want to push him, crack that shell of cynicism and make him admit her believed something, felt something, cared about anything at all.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Bones
“There was still about them what had always reminded Magnus of an old legend he’d heard of the red thread of fate: that an invisible scarlet thread bound certain people, and however tangled it became, it could not and would not break.”
Cassandra Clare
The Midnight Heir
“There were impressive stone paths and benches and even a statue of an angel that gave Simon nervous fits, since he was a Doctor Who fan. The angel wasn’t weeping, exactly, but it looked too depressed for Simon’s liking.”
Cassandra Clare
Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy
“There were some memories, though, that never faded.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Bones
“There were valuable first editions of books in the enormous library, most of them had been scribbled in by some idiot named Will H.”
Cassandra Clare
Lord of Shadows
“There will always be those who want to tell you who you are based on your name or the blood in your veins. Do not let other people decide who you are. Decide for yourself.” (Cassandra Clare Quotes)
Cassandra Clare
City of Heavenly Fire
“There’s always a little wiggle room,” he’d told Simon, “a little space to figure these things out yourself.” He’d taught Simon to ask questions, to challenge authority, to understand and believe in rules before he followed them. There was a noble Jewish heritage of arguing, his father liked to say, even when it came to arguing with God.”
Cassandra Clare
The Lost Herondale
“Therefore you can never lose hope, because if you keep hope alive, it will keep you alive.”
Cassandra Clare
The Mortal Instruments
“There’s no need to clarify my finger snap,” said Magnus. “The implication was clear in the snap itself.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“There’s something about a place you’ve been with someone you love. It takes on a meaning in your mind. It becomes more than a place. It becomes a distillation of what you felt for each other. The moments you spend in a place with someone… they become part of its bricks and mortar. Part of its soul.”
Cassandra Clare
Lord of Shadows
“These pictures are my heart. And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“They all have always loved you, Will Herondale, for you cannot hide what is good about yourself, however hard you try.”
Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Prince
“They all seemed to be related to each other and it was very disturbing.”
Cassandra Clare
Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy
“They had met at a club fifteen years before, Etta and Magnus. He had convinced her to dance with him, and she said she had been in love by the end of the song. He told her he had been in love before the beginning.”
Cassandra Clare
Saving Raphael Santiago
“They had parted badly. When you love someone that intensely and they do not love you in the same way, it is impossible to part well.”
Cassandra Clare
The Fall of the Hotel Dumort
“They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite”
Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Prince
“They shared a small moment of bizarre, companionable silence -they boy who’d forgotten everything about his history, and the boy who’d never known it.”
Cassandra Clare
Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy
“They were both thoroughly rumpled, but Matthew did not mind being rumpled for a good cause”
Cassandra Clare
Cast Long Shadows
“This is the nature of having of a soul, Kieran, and a heart. We all stumble around in the dark and we cause each other pain and we try to make up for it the best we can. We are all confused.”
Cassandra Clare
Queen of Air and Darkness
“This is why we are chosen warrior partners, because we share such a perfect bond of sympathy. Come to me, Jamie, that we might share a manly embrace.”
Cassandra Clare
Cast Long Shadows
“This was what people fought wars over, she thought, and killed each other over, and destroyed their lives for: this nerve-shredding mixture of longing and pleasure.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“Those of us who do not live forever do not like change perhaps as much as those of you who do.”
Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Princess
“Threatening the High Warlock. Better and better. Maybe we should head down to vampire clan headquarters and punch Anselm Nightshade in the face.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“Time was something that moved in fits and starts for Magnus, dissipating like mist or dragging like chains, but when Alec was here, Magnus’s time seemed to fall into an easy rhythm with Alec’s, like two heartbeats falling into sync.”
Cassandra Clare
The Bane Chronicles
“To love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Bones
“To them, as to Magnus, time was like rain, glittering as it fell, changing the world, but something that could also be taken for granted.”
Cassandra Clare
The Bane Chronicles
“Tobias loved her more than he’d loved anything—his family, his duty, even himself. There, perhaps, the Herondale blood ran true.”
Cassandra Clare
The Lost Herondale
“Too much of anything could destroy you, Simon thought. Too much darkness could kill, but too much light could blind.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Lost Souls
“Trust. It is like placing a blade in someone’s hand and setting the very point to your heart.”
Cassandra Clare
The Bane Chronicles
“Ty reached out and brushed Kit’s hair away from his face, an absent sort of gesture that sent a shot of something through Kit, a feeling like he’d touched a live electrical fence.”
Cassandra Clare
Queen of Air and Darkness
“Uncle Will frequently gave dramatic readings from the book he was writing on demon pox, which were very droll”
Cassandra Clare
Cast Long Shadows
“Unfortunately, you never really hate anyone as much as someone you cared about once.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Glass
“Vampires bore a grudge longer than any technically living creatures, and whenever they were in a bad temper, they expressed themselves through murder.”
Cassandra Clare
Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale
“Vampires, fey folk, werewolves, Shadowhunters, and demons – these things made sense to Magnus. But the mundane world – it seemed to have no pattern, no form. Their quicksilver politics. Their short lives…”
Cassandra Clare
The Runaway Queen
“Very well,” Magnus said. “Let us pause for a moment and consider—Oh, you have already run off Splendid.”
Cassandra Clare
Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale
“Waiting for a special occasion to kill me? Christmas is coming.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Glass
“Was this what it meant to love someone? That any burden was a burden shared, that they could give you comfort with a word or a touch?”
Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Prince
“We all change the world, with every day of living in it,” Magnus said. “You just have to decide HOW you want to change the world.”
Cassandra Clare
Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy
“We all find out the people who are supposed to take care of us are human eventually. That they make mistakes.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“We are all flawed creatures. As diamonds are flawed, each distinct imperfection makes us unique.”
Cassandra Clare
Chain of Thorns
“We are all our past have made us. The accumulation of thousands of daily choices. We can change ourselves, but never erase what we’ve been. Forgetting those choices doesn’t unmake them.”
Cassandra Clare
Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy
“We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Heavenly Fire
“We are all what our pasts have made us. The accumulation of thousands of daily choices. We can change ourselves, but never erase what we’ve been. Forgetting those choices doesn’t unmake them, Daylighter. You’d do well to remember that.”
Cassandra Clare
The Lost Herondale
“We are all what our pasts have made us.”
Cassandra Clare
The Lost Herondale
“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!”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“We are not here just to forget, but also to remember there are good and beautiful things in the world, always. And mistakes do not take them from us; nothing takes them from us. They are eternal.”
Cassandra Clare
Chain of Thorns
“We are not our parents, Gabriel. We do not have to carry the burden of their choices or their sins.”
Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Princess
“We both see the same world, but in a different way. Ty feels the same joy I do, the joy of creation. We feel all the same things, only the shapes of our feelings are different.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“We can buy you one of those books they have for little kids ‘Timmy Has Two Dads’. Except I don’t think they have one called ‘Timmy Has Two Dads and One of Them Was Evil’. That part you’re just going to have to work through on your own.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Fallen Angels
“We cannot understand life, and therefore we cannot hope to understand death”
Cassandra Clare
Queen of Air and Darkness
“We don’t see the things that are closest to us. It’s the nature of people.”
Cassandra Clare
Lord of Shadows
“We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people because we love them. We fear dying because we value being alive. Don’t wish you didn’t fear anything. All that would mean is that you didn’t feel anything.”
Cassandra Clare
Lord of Shadows
“We get used to living one way, even if it’s a bad way or a hard one. When that’s gone, there’s a hole to fill. It’s in our nature to try to fill it with anxieties and fears. It can take time to fill it with good things instead.”
Cassandra Clare
Lord of Shadows
“We have been in the crucible, and come out as gold.”
Cassandra Clare
Chain of Thorns
“We live and breathe words. It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could never love anyone, never be loved again. It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.”
Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Prince
“We live and breathe words…. It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how you were lonely sometimes and afraid, but always brave; the way you saw the world, its colors and textures and sounds, I felt–I felt the way you thought, hoped, felt, dreamt. I felt I was dreaming and thinking and feeling with you. I dreamed what you dreamed, wanted what you wanted-and then I realized that truly I just wanted you.”
Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Prince
“We live forever by the grace of human love, which rocked strange children in their cradles and did not despair and did not turn away.”
Cassandra Clare
What Really Happened in Peru
“We live vicariously through stories, because our own lives provide so few opportunities for high-stakes adventure and noble sacrifice.”
Cassandra Clare
Shadowhunters and Downworlders
“We so desperately want to be with those who know the truth of us. Our secrets.” (Cassandra Clare Quotes)
Cassandra Clare
Chain of Thorns
“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.”
Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Prince
“We will have to rough it like mundanes do, and take the fanciest, most luxurious train available on a romantic overnight through the Alps. You see the sacrifices I am willing to make for the sake of safety.”
Cassandra Clare
The Red Scrolls of Magic
“Well, I’m a Lovelace. My family quit Shadowhunting due to laziness in the 1700s.”
Cassandra Clare
Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy
“What I actually want to call you is a hell of a lot more unprintable than your name”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“What if everything you believe is wrong and you could still be loved and still be forgiven?”
Cassandra Clare
Saving Raphael Santiago
“What is a book? Is it the binding, the ink, the pages, or the sum of the words contained?”
Cassandra Clare
Queen of Air and Darkness
“What is a Shadowhunter made of, if they desert their own, if they throw away a child’s heart like rubbish left on the side of the road?”
Cassandra Clare
Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy
“What would you do if you saw something nobody else could see?”
Cassandra Clare
The Mortal Instruments
“What’s wrong with you?” Simon demanded. “Saying ‘don’t panic’ is guaranteed to make everyone panic! Be specific about the problem.”
Cassandra Clare
Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy
“What’s the point in wasting a perfectly good brick wall when you have someone to throw against it, that’s what I always say.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Fallen Angels
“When a decision like that is made by a government, it emboldens those who are already prejudiced to speak their deepest thoughts of hate. They assume they are simply brave enough to say what everyone really thinks.”
Cassandra Clare
Lord of Shadows
“When He’d told his mother he wanted to go to military school so he could though up, she’d given him a strange look. (Not as strange as if he’d said he wanted to go to demon-fighting school so he could drink from the Mortal Cup, Ascend to the ranks of Shadowhunter, and just maybe get back the memories that had been stolen from him in a nearby hell dimension, but close.)”
Cassandra Clare
The Lost Herondale
“When I think of you, and you are not there, I see you in my mind’s eye always with a book in your hand.”
Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Prince
“When no one you know tells the truth, you learn to see under the surface.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“When one steals a flying balloon and animates it to fly over Paris, one should, ideally, have some idea how said balloon normally works.”
Cassandra Clare
The Runaway Queen
“When our hearts break, they break into shards that cannot be easily fit back together.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Heavenly Fire
“When people die, our dreams of what they could be die with them. Even if ours is the hand that ends them.”
Cassandra Clare
Lord of Shadows
“When people died, it felt like all the pieces of yourself you had given to them went as well. It took so long, building yourself back up until you were whole again, and you were never entirely the same.”
Cassandra Clare
The Bane Chronicles
“When someone’s been part of your life for that long, cutting them out is like cutting the roots out from under a plant.”
Cassandra Clare
Lord of Shadows
“When the fey were worried, it was time to panic.”
Cassandra Clare
Saving Raphael Santiago
“When two souls are as one, they stay together on the Wheel. I was born into this world to love you, and I will love you in the next life, and the one after that.” ~Jem Carstairs”
Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Prince
“When you fight, you should fight with your whole heart.”
Cassandra Clare
Ghosts of the Shadow Market
“When you love someone that intensely and they do not love you in the same way, it is impossible to part well.”
Cassandra Clare
The Fall of the Hotel Dumort
“When you love someone, they become a part of who you are. They’re in everything you do. They’re in the air you breathe and the water you drink and the blood in your veins. Their touch stays on your skin and their voice stays in your ears and their thoughts stay in your mind. You know their dreams because their nightmares pierce your heart and their good dreams are your dreams too. And you don’t think they’re perfect, but you know their flaws, the deep-down truth of them, and the shadows of all their secrets, and they don’t frighten you away; in fact you love them more for it, because you don’t want perfect. You want them.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“Where there is love, there is often also hate. They can exist side by side.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Bones
“Why all these paintings of you? Because I’m an artist, Emma. These pictures are my heart. And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“Why are you wearing a T-shirt under your other T-shirt?” Livvy asked. “In case one of them is stolen,” Marked said, as it were entirely normal.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“Will has always been my favourite too, Jem agreed solemnly.” (Cassandra Clare Quotes)
Cassandra Clare
Cast Long Shadows
“With tears running down her face, Cecily had reminded him of the moment at her wedding to Gabriel when he had delivered a beautiful speech praising the groom, at the end of which he had announced, “Dear God, I thought she was marrying Gideon. I take it all back.”
Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Princess
“Words were weapons, his father had taught him that, and he’d wanted to hurt Clary more than he’d ever wanted to hurt any girl. In fact, he wasn’t sure he had ever wanted to hurt a girl before. Usually he just wanted them, and then he wanted them to leave him alone.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Bones
“Years later Magnus would return to London and Camille Belcourt’s side, and find it not all that he had dreamed. Years later another desperate Herondale boy with blue, blue eyes would come to his door, shaking with the cold of the rain and his own wretchedness, and this one Magnus would be able to help.”
Cassandra Clare
Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale
“Yet love was not something to be thrown aside lightly. It came so rarely, only a few times in a mortal life. Some- times it came but once”
Cassandra Clare
Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale
“You are all I have. Hold the darkness back. Hold the memories back. Hold me.”
Cassandra Clare
Chain of Thorns
“You are all that exists on the earth and under the sky that I do love.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“You are the central point about which his world spins.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Lost Souls
“You are the flame that cannot be put out. You are the star that cannot be lost. You are who you always have been, and that is enough and more than enough. Anyone who looks at you and sees darkness is blind.”
Cassandra Clare
Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy
“You are the two halves of a whole. You must be different, like light and shadow- he brings you caution to temper your recklessness, and you bring him recklessness to temper his caution. Without each other you would not function as well as you do. That is what parabatai means.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“You belong where you’re loved.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“You can feel it all around. It’s coming, and everything will break apart.”
Cassandra Clare
The Bane Chronicles
“You can only push the truth down for so long, and then it bubbles back up.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Glass
“You cannot destroy destruction itself any more than you can cure poison with poison.”
Cassandra Clare
Queen of Air and Darkness
“You can’t forget the things you did in the past, or you’ll never learn from them.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Fallen Angels
“You choose to be yourself, your best self. You can be descended from gods and monsters. You can take the light they left you and be a lamp shining out all their light made new. You can battle the darkness. You can choose always to fight and hope. That is what it means to have a great heart. Don’t be afraid of being yourself.”
Cassandra Clare
Ghosts of the Shadow Market
“You could give me the past,“ he said a little sadly. “But Alec is my future.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Fallen Angels
“You could have had anything else in the world, and you asked for me.” She smiled up at him. Filthy as he was, covered in blood and dirt, he was the most beautiful thing she’d ever seen. “But I don’t want anything else in the world.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Glass
“You could share your bed with a monster, lay your head on the same pillow next to a head filled with murder and madness. Magnus had done it himself.”
Cassandra Clare
The Bane Chronicles
“You couldn’t know how much going away had changed you until you tried to go home.”
Cassandra Clare
The Lost Herondale
“You disappear so completely into your head sometimes,” he said. “I wish I could follow you.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“You don’t know her, Simon. I mean, not anymore.”
Cassandra Clare
The Lost Herondale
“You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.”
Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Princess
“You had to know a person well to make them laugh like that.”
Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Prince
“You have a dark heart in you, Valentine’s daughter,” he said. “You just won’t admit it. And if you want Jace, you had better accept it. Because he belongs to me now.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Lost Souls
“You kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire. He had wondered once why love was always phrased in terms of burning. The conflagration in his own veins, now, gave the answer.” (Cassandra Clare Quotes)
Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Princess
“You know it’s the people who we love the most who can hurt us the most.”
Cassandra Clare
Chain of Thorns
“You left me. You made a pet out of me, and then you left me. If love were food, I would have starved on the bones you gave me.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Fallen Angels
“You may choose your friends, but not your unlikely saviors,” Magnus said cheerfully.”
Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Prince
“You may have the worst timing since Napoleon decided the dead of winter was the right moment to invade Russia.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Lost Souls
“You might want to get up,” he said. “Everyone will be here quite soon to rescue you, and you may prefer to have clothes on when they arrive.” He shrugged. “I would, at any rate, but then, I am well known to be remarkably shy.”
Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Princess
“You might want to lie down,” Magnus advised. “I find that it helps when the crushing sense of horrible realization sets in.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“You never really hate anyone as much as someone you cared about once.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Glass
“You never thought for a second about it diminishing you to have a girl as your warrior partner, you never acted as if I was anything less than your complete equal. You never for a moment made me feel like I had to be weak for you to be strong.”
Cassandra Clare
Queen of Air and Darkness
“You see things that nobody else sees. You can’t talk about it because no one will understand. You have to keep secrets, and secrets- they break you apart. Cut you open. Make you vulnerable.”
Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight
“You think they are kind, that the Nephilim are kind, because they are good, but goodness is not kindness, and there is nothing crueler than virtue.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Heavenly Fire
“You told us to leave you in the desert, because you planned to start a new life as cactus,” Catarina said, her voice flat. “Then you conjured up tiny needles and threw them at us. With pinpoint accuracy.”
Cassandra Clare
What Really Happened in Peru
“You were a Downworlder once. That will always be a part of you. Even if you forget, they never will.”
Cassandra Clare
The Lost Herondale
“You were calling for Cordelia,” Will said. “I have never heard anyone sound as if they were in such pain. Jamie, you must talk to us.”
Cassandra Clare
Chain of Thorns
“You will come across few creatures that cannot be successfully defeated by the application of sufficient blunt trauma.”
Cassandra Clare
The Shadowhunter’s Codex
“You’re my heart, Magnus Bane. Stay unbroken, for me.”
Cassandra Clare
The Lost Book of the White
“You’re quite wrong, you know. I am the most permanent person that you will ever meet,” said Magnus, his voice breathless with laughter and his eyes stung a little by tears. “It is only that it never makes any difference.”
Cassandra Clare
What Really Happened in Peru
“You’re quite wrong, you know. I am the most permanent person that you will eve meet,” said Magnus, his voice breathless with laughter and his eyes stung a little by tears. “It is only that it never makes a difference.”
Cassandra Clare
The Bane Chronicles
“You’re so easy to tease. And yes, your friend is just fine. Well, except that he keeps putting all my things away and trying to clean up. Now I can’t find anything. He’s compulsive.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“You’re the only person I’ve ever loved like this, and I know you’re the only person I ever will. And I’m not myself without you, Emma. Once you dissolve dye in water, you can’t take it back out. It’s like that. I can’t take you out of me. It means cutting out my heart, and I don’t like myself without my heart, I know that now.”
Cassandra Clare
Queen of Air and Darkness
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