“You're the first Shadowhunter I've ever met. “That’s too bad,” said Jace, “since all the others you meet from now on will be a terrible letdown.”
— Cassandra Clare“You might want to lie down, Magnus advised. I find that it helps when the crushing sense of horrible realization sets in.”
— Cassandra Clare“If no one cares for you at all, do you even really exist?”
— Cassandra Clare“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“Will rolled up his sleeves. We'll probably have to knock down the door-- Or, said Jem, reaching out and giving the knob a twist, not. The door swung open onto a rectangle of darkness. Now, that's simply laziness, said Will.”
— Cassandra Clare“Have you tried talking to her? No. We've been punching her in the face repeatedly. What? You don't think that will work?”
— Cassandra Clare“That's everyone's dream, isn't it, really? Instead of many who give you little pieces of themselves-one who gives you everything.”
— Cassandra Clare“The point of stories is not that they are objectively true, but that the soul of the story is truer than reality. Those who mock fiction do so because they fear the truth.”
— Cassandra Clare“Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.”
— Cassandra Clare“There are memories that time does not erase... Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.”
— Cassandra Clare“You had to know a person well to make them laugh like that.”
— Cassandra Clare“Every time I think I'm missing a piece of me, you give it back.”
— Cassandra Clare“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“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“She had never imagined she had the power to make someone else so happy. And not a magical power, either--a purely human one.”
— Cassandra Clare“She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all?”
— Cassandra Clare“Jace looked as if she had slapped him. Why are you determined not to believe us?Because she loves you, said Valentine.Clary felt the blood drain out of her face.”
— Cassandra Clare“You know what the worst thing I can imagine is? Simon had said. Not trusting someone I love.”
— Cassandra Clare“As long as I can dream, I will dream of you.”
— Cassandra Clare“There was beauty in the idea of freedom, but it was an illusion. Every human heart was chained by love.”
— Cassandra Clare“Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change -Clary Fray”
— Cassandra Clare“One does no question miracles, or complain that they are no constructed perfectly to one's liking.”
— Cassandra Clare“You serve a greater cause. Your life is not yours to throw away (Magnus Bane)”
— Cassandra Clare“Everything changes in my life, and the world stays the same.”
— Cassandra Clare“Hate is nothing when weighed against survival. (Valentine)”
— Cassandra Clare“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“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“You couldnt erase everything that caused you pain with recollection.Every memory was valuable; even the bad ones”
— Cassandra Clare“Well, I’m not kissing the mundane, said Jace. I’d rather stay down here and rot.Forever? said Simon. Forever’s an awfully long time.Jace raised his eyebrows. I knew it, he said. You want to kiss me, don’t you?”
— Cassandra Clare“That does it, said Jace. I'm going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year.Why? Isabelle said.So you can look up 'fun.' I'm not sure you know what it means.”
— Cassandra Clare“We need to talk. All of us About what we're going to do now.I was going to watch Project Runway.”
— Cassandra Clare“There's no need to clarify my finger snap, said Magnus. The implication was clear in the snap itself.”
— Cassandra Clare“So when the moon's only partly full, you only feel a little wolfy? You could say that.Well, you can go ahead and hang your head out the car window if you feel like it.I'm a werewolf, not a golden retriever.”
— Cassandra Clare“Your friend's poetry is terrible, he said.Clary blinked, caught momentarily off guard. What?I said his poetry was terrible. It sounds like he ate a dictionary and started vomiting up words at random.”
— Cassandra Clare“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“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“And next time you're planning to injure yourself to get me attention, just remember that a little sweet talk works wonders.”
— Cassandra Clare“I guess it’s true what they say, observed Jace. There are no straight men in the trenches.That’s atheists, jackass, said Simon furiously. There are no atheists in the trenches.”
— Cassandra Clare“Astriola. That IS demon pox. You had evidence that demon pox existed and you didnt mention it to me! Et tu, Brute!' He rolled up the paper and hit Jem over the head with it.”
— Cassandra Clare“Watching Jace hug Isabelle, she tried to school her features into a happy and loving expression.Are you all right? Simon asked, with some concern. Your eyes are crossing.”
— Cassandra Clare“I'm the warlock who's here to cure you. Didn't they tell you I was coming?I know who you are, but... Maia looked dazed. You look so...so...”
— Cassandra Clare“Isabelle snorted, All the boys gay. In this truck, anyway. Well, not you, Simon.You noticed, said Simon. I think of myself as a freewheeling bisexual, added Magnus. Please never say those words in front of my parents, said Alec.”
— Cassandra Clare“Caliph Vathek and his dark hordeAre bound for Hell, you won’t be bored!Your faith in me will be restored—Unless this token you find untowardAnd my poor gift you have ignored.”
— Cassandra Clare“Come on guys, you cant fight like this foreverActually, Simon said, raising his hand,I can.Jace made a weird noise and I realized he was trying not to laugh-which by the way, wasn't working.”
— Cassandra Clare“Is this one of those keep-your-friends-close-and-your-enemies-closer things?I though it was keep your friends close so you have someone to drive the car when you sneak over to your enemy's house at night and throw up in his mailbox.”
— Cassandra Clare“Perhaps not, said Will, who had ears like a bat's. But I would make a radiant bride.”
— Cassandra Clare“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“All knowledge hurts.”
— Cassandra Clare“The only way you would have failed, she said, is if you had.”
— Cassandra Clare“He touched her face, gently, with the back of his hand. 'you disappear so completely into your head sometimes.' he said. 'i wish i could follow you.'you do, she wanted to say, you live in my head all the time”
— Cassandra Clare