Cassandra Clare Quotes

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

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

Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.

~ Cassandra Clare

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

You could have fooled me. Everytime I called you, Luke said you were sick. I figured you were avoiding me. Again.I wasn't. I did want to talk to you. I've been thinking about you all the time.I've been thinking about you, too.I really was sick. I swear. I almost died back there on the ship, you know.I know. Everytime you almost die, I almost die myself.

~ 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

He made a sound like a choked laughed before he reached out and pulled her into her arms. She was aware of Luke watching them from the window, but she shut her eyes resolutely and buried her face against Jace's shoulder. He smelled of salt and blood, and only when his mouth came close to her ear did she understand what he was saying, and it was the simplest litany of all: her name, just her name.

~ Cassandra Clare

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

Now very much against her will, she thought of the way Jace had looked at her then, the blaze of faith in his eyes, his belief in her. He had always thought she was strong. He had showed it in everything he did, in every look and every touch. Simon had faith in her too, yet when he'd held her, it had been as if she were something fragile, something made of delicate glass. But Jace had held her with all the strength he had, never wondering if she could take it--he'd known she was as strong has he was.

~ Cassandra Clare

to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.

~ Cassandra Clare

There are memories that time does not erase... Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.

~ Cassandra Clare

Of course he loves me. I’m his sister.”“Blood isn’t love,” said Magnus, and his voice was bitter.

~ Cassandra Clare

When you love someone, you don't have a choice. Love takes your choices away.- Clary Fray

~ 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

You had to know a person well to make them laugh like that.

~ 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 loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all?

~ Cassandra Clare

Every time I think I'm missing a piece of me, you give it back.

~ Cassandra Clare

There was beauty in the idea of freedom, but it was an illusion. Every human heart was chained by love.

~ Cassandra Clare

I think everything that happened in Idris-Valentine, Max, Hodge, even Sebastian-I kept shoving it all down, trying to forget, but it's catching up with me. I... I'll get help. I'll get better. I promise. You promise.I swear on the Angel. He ducked his head down, kissed her cheek.The hell with that. I swear on us.

~ Cassandra Clare

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

Herondales. Zachariah's voice was a breath, half laughter, half pain. I had almost forgotten. No other family does so much for love, or feels so much guilt for it. Don't carry the weight of the world on you, Jace. It's too heavy for even a Herondale to bear.

~ Cassandra Clare

Must I go bound while you go freeMust I love a manwho doesn't love meMust I be born with so little artAs to love a man who'll break my Heart

~ Cassandra Clare

Love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything.

~ Cassandra Clare

My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health.

~ Cassandra Clare

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

Everything that happens to you matters to me.

~ Cassandra Clare

Love didn't make you weak, it made you stronger.

~ Cassandra Clare

No. Magnus strode toward him. 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

I’ll tell them,” she said. “I’ll tell them it was my fault.”He looked at her, gold eyes incredulous. “You can’t lie to them.”“I’m not. I brought you back,” she said. “You were dead, and I brought you back. I upset the balance, not you. I opened the door for Lilith and her stupid ritual. I could have asked for anything, and I asked for you.” She tightened her grip on his shirt, her fingers white with cold and pressure. “And I would do it again. I love you, Jace Wayland—Herondale—Lightwood—whatever you want to call yourself. I don’t care. I love you and I wil always love you, and pretending it could be any other way is just a waste of time.

~ Cassandra Clare

Everyone has choices to make no one has the right to take those choices away from us. Not even out of love..

~ Cassandra Clare

I just don't see why the past has to matter.

~ 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

Simon: So were you following me? Or is it just an amazing coincidence that you happened to be on the roof of a building I was walking by when I got attacked?Jace: I was following you.Simon: Is this the part where you tell me you're secretly in love with me?

~ Cassandra Clare

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

Jace broke off the kiss and stepped back with an exhale; before Clary could say anything, a chorus of sarcastic applause broke out from the nearby hill. Simon, Isabelle, and Alec waved at them. Jace bowed while Clary stepped back slightly sheepishly, hooking her thumbs into the belt of her jeansJace sighed. Shall we join our annoying, voyeuristic friends?Unfortunately, that's the only kind of friends we have.

~ Cassandra Clare

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

He opened his mouth. The words were there. He was about to say them when a jolt of terror went through him, the terror of someone who, wandering in a mist, pauses only to realise that they have stopped inches from the edge of a gaping abyss. The way she was looking at him - she could read what was in his eyes, he realised. It must have been written plainly there, like words on the page of a book. There had been no time, no chance, to hide it.“Will,” she whispered. “Say something, Will.”But there was nothing to say. There was only emptiness, as there had been before her. As there would always be.'I have lost everything', Will thought. 'Everything.

~ Cassandra Clare

I was trying to go... somewhere. But I kept getting pulled back here. I couldn't stop walking, couldn't stop thinking. About the first time I ever saw you, and how after I couldn't forget you. I wanted to, but I couldn't stop myself. I forced Hodge to let me be the one who came to find you and bring you back to the Institute. And even back then, in that stupid coffee shop, when I saw you with Simon, even then that felt wrong to me-- I should have been the one sitting with you. The one who made you laugh like that. I couldn't get rid of that feeling. That it should have been me. And the more I knew you, the more I felt it-- it had never been like that for me before. I'd always wanted a girl and then gotten to know her and not wanted her anymore, but with you the feeling just got stronger and stronger until that night when you showed up at Renwick's and I knew. And then to find out the reason I felt like that-- like you were some part of me I'd lost and never ever knew I was missing until I saw you again-- that the reason was that you were my sister, it felt like some cosmic joke. Like God was spitting on me. I don't even know for what-- for thinking that I actually get to have you, that I would deserve something like that, to be happy. I couldn't imagine what it was I'd done that I was being punished for--

~ Cassandra Clare

It was stupid to hope, she knew. But sometimes hope was all you had.

~ Cassandra Clare