Cassandra Clare Quotes

Tessa, Will, and Jem had raised James in love, and had surrounded him with love and the goodness it could produce. But they had given him no armor against the evil. They had wrapped his heart in silks and velvet, and then he had given it to Grace Blackthorn, and she had spun for it a cage of razor wire and broken glass, burned it to bits, and blown away the remains, another layer of ashes in this place of beautiful horrors.

~ Cassandra Clare

I think,” Jace said, “that you don’t want to tell your secrets, so you decided to break up with Alec because...

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I was even a little glad that if it wasn’t going to be me she wanted, it was going to be someone who really deserved her.

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He can touch your soul. And there is a difference between having your heart break and having your soul shatter.

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What they had wasn't ordinary, or subject to the ordinary rules of relationships and breakups. They belonged to each other totally, and always would, and that was that. But maybe everyone felt that way? Until the moment they realized they were just like everyone else, and everything they'd thought was real shattered apart.

~ Cassandra Clare

But I have made a study of Shadowhunters now, over the past century, and let me tell you that we are more human than most human beings. When our hearts break, they break into shards that cannot be easily fit back together. I envy mundanes their resilience sometimes.

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Could you really love two different people at once? Could you split your heart in half?

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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. She understood why people talked about hearts breaking; she felt as if hers were made of cracked glass, and the shards were like tiny knives inside her chest when she breathed.

~ Cassandra Clare

When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does.

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You could know a man not by what his friends said about him, but by how he treated his servants.

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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.

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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.

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The Fair Folk don't give back what they take.

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Feeling this way was a particular kind of horror, having the emotions without the memories.

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I am Tessa Gray,” she said in a low, clear voice. “And I believe in the importance of stories.

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Come back to me, Tessa. Henry said that perhaps, since you had touched the soul of an angel, that you dream of Heaven now, of fields of angels and flowers of fire. Perhaps you are happy in those dreams. But I ask this out of pure selfishness. Come back to me. For I cannot bear to lose all my heart.

~ Cassandra Clare

Ducks, embrace me as your king!--James Herondale.

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Being sixteen forever sounded good until you really thought about it. Then it didn't seem like such a great prospect.

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

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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 things like that, without thinking of potential nightmare scenarios or horrific conditions, the whole world changing and love slipping away. None of them ever dreamed love would be tested, and fail.

~ Cassandra Clare

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.

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Yes...and I'm worried that if you get into the habit of making out with your instructors, you'll wind up making out with him too.Don't be sexist. They could find me a female instructor.In that case, you have my permission to make out with her as long as I can watch.

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There's no pretending, I love you and I will love you until the day i die and if there's a life after that I will love you then.

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Jace stood up, knocking his chair back violently. You are not taking Clary to the Seelie Court without me and THAT is FINAL.

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Jocelyn recognized reading as a sacred pastime and usually wouldn't interrupt Clary in the middle of a book, even to yell at her.

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What's that you're holding? he asked, noticing the pamphlet, still rolled up in her left

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Of course, everyone's going to freak out when you show up at school.Freak out? Why?Because you're so much hotter now than when you left. She shrugged. It's true. Must be a vampire thing.Simon looked baffled. I'm hotter now?Sure you are. I mean, look at those two. They're both totally into you. She pointed to a few feet in front of them, where Isabelle and Maia had moved to walk side by side, their head bent tog

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Another vampire pushed her way through the crowd to stand at hisside—a pretty blue-haired Asian girl in a silver foil skirt. Clary wondered if there were any ugly vampires, or maybe any fat ones. Maybe they didn't make vampires out of ugly people. Or maybe ugly people just didn't want to live forever.

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Their beauty had always seemed to him like the beauty of pressed flowers-lovely, but dead.

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He was a vampire now. He was supposed to have eternity. But what he had was days.

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There was also the fact that sometimes vampires committed crimes worse than murder. They commited crimes against fashion.

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Vampires took offense SO easily—and Parisian vampires were the worst of all.' - The Runaway Queen (The Bane Chronicles, 2) by Cassandra Clare and Maureen Johnson

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I don’t understand what makes them come out like that!”“Hunger,” said Jem. “Were you thinking about blood?”“No.”“Were you thinking about eating me?” Will inquired.“No!“No one would blame you,” said Jem. “He’s very annoying.

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That was vampires for you: always going for the jugular, both literally and metaphorically. They were messing up his love life as well as being inconsiderate party guests who had got blood in Magnus’s stereo system at his last party and turned Clary’s idiot friend Stanley into a rat, which was just bad manners.

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Isabelle! he called again. Let down your raven hair. Oh, my God, Clary muttered. There was something in that blood Raphael gave you, wasn't there? I'm going to kill him. He's already dead, Simon observed. He's undead. Obviously he can still die, you know, again. I'll re-kill him.

~ Cassandra Clare

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.

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Maybe they didn't make vampires out of ugly people. Or maybe ugly people just didn't want to live forever.

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The foundations of your childhood, they stay with you.

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Break my heart, he said. Break it in pieces. I give you my permission.

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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