Cassandra Clare Quotes

Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.

~ Cassandra Clare

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

You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.

~ Cassandra Clare

Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change -Clary Fray

~ Cassandra Clare

If there were such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood.

~ Cassandra Clare

One does no question miracles, or complain that they are no constructed perfectly to one's liking.

~ Cassandra Clare

And when I saw him[my father] lying dead in a pool of his own blood, I knew then that I hadn't stopped believing in God. I'd just stopped believing God cared. There might be a God, Clary, and there might be not. Either way, we're on our own.

~ Cassandra Clare

Pulvis et umbra sumus. It's a line from Horace. 'We are dust and shadows'. Appropriate, don't you think? Will said. It's not a long life, killing demons; one tends to die young, and then they burn your body - dust to dust, in the literal sense. And then we vanish into the shadows of history, nary a mark on the page of a mundane book to remind the world that once we existed at all.

~ 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

Everything changes in my life, and the world stays the same.

~ Cassandra Clare

You couldnt erase everything that caused you pain with recollection.Every memory was valuable, even the bad ones

~ Cassandra Clare

I've screwed everything up royally. I remember you saying that growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.

~ Cassandra Clare

He knew Alec enough by now to know the conflicting impulses that warred in him. He was conscientious, the kind of person who believed that the others around him were so much more important than he was, who already believed he was letting everybody down. And he was honest, the kind of person that was naturally open about all he felt and wanted. Alec's virtues had made a trap for him; these two good qualities had collided painfully. He felt he could not be honest without disappointing everyone he loved. It was a hideous conundrum for him. It was as if the world had been designed to make him unhappy.

~ Cassandra Clare

she was glad she had been scarred. She said that whoever loved her now would love her true self, and not her pretty face.

~ Cassandra Clare

People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but it's the way you live your life that matters. And the people you know. Valentine was Hodge's friend, and I don't think Hodge really had anyone else in his life to challenge him or make him be a better person. If I'd had that life, I don't know how I would have turned out. But I didn't. I have my family. And I have you.

~ Cassandra Clare

It means 'Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of our Enemies Since 1234'.

~ Cassandra Clare

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

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

The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me.

~ Cassandra Clare

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

A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance covers?

~ Cassandra Clare

You're an idiot.I've never claimed to be otherwise.

~ Cassandra Clare

Jace shook his blond head in exasperation. You had to make a crazy jail friend, didn't you? You couldn't just count ceiling tiles or tame a pet mouse like normal prisoners do?

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My rapier wit hides my inner pain.

~ Cassandra Clare

Magnus, standing by the door, snapped his fingers impatiently. Move it along, teenagers. The only person who gets to canoodle in my bedroom is my magnificent self.Canoodle? repeated Clary, never having heard the word before.Magnificent? repeated Jace, who was just being nasty. Magnus growled. The growl sounded like Get out.

~ Cassandra Clare

Alec looked at her and shook his head. How do you manage never to get mud on your clothes?Isabelle shrugged philosophically. I'm pure at heart. It repels the dirt.

~ 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

Sebastian just smiled. “I could hear your heart beating,” he said softly. “When you were watching me with Valentine. Did it bother you?”“That you seem to be dating my dad?” Jace shrugged. You’re a little young for him, to be honest.”“What?” For the first time since Jace had met him, Sebastian seemed flabbergasted.

~ Cassandra Clare

As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?

~ 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

Going round and around inside a dryer can be fatal, whereas pasta is rarely fatal. Unless Isabelle makes it.

~ Cassandra Clare

Is this Clarissa Fray? The voice on the other end of the phone sounded familiar, though not immediately identifiable.Clary twirled the phone cord nervously around her finger. Yeees?Hi, I'm one of the knife-carrying hooligans you met last night in Pandemonium? Im afraid I made a bad impression and was hoping you'd give me a chance to make it up to-SIMON! Clary held the phone away from her ear as he cracked up laughing. That is so not funny!Sure it is. You just don't see the humor.Jerk. Clary sighed, leaning up against the wall.

~ Cassandra Clare

I don't do what I'm told, but I might do what you want if you ask me nicely.

~ 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

Pretty soon the only people left without a girlfriend will be me and Wendell the school janitor, and he smells like windex.At least you know he's still available.

~ Cassandra Clare

Also, I'm sleeping with your mom. Just thought you should know.

~ Cassandra Clare

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

You look lousy,' he said. Jace blinked. 'Seems an odd time to start an insult contest, but if you insist, I could probably think up something good.''No I mean it. You don't look good.''This is from a guy ho has all the sex appeal of a penguin. Look, I realize you may be jealous that the good Lord didn't deal you the same chiseled hand he dealt me, but that's no reason to-' 'I am not trying to insult you.' Simon snapped.

~ Cassandra Clare