Cassandra Clare Quotes

Keeping demons from this world is your mandate, a mandate from heaven. And a mandate from heaven isn't something you can just ignore.

~ Cassandra Clare

she glanced down and saw that a glove of blood covered her lower arm from the elbow to the wrist. The arm was throbbing, stiff, and painful. Is this when you start tearing strips off your T-shirt to bind up my wound? she joked. She hated the sight of blood, especially her own. If you wanted me to rip my clothes off, you should have just asked. He dug into his pocket and brought out his stele. It would have been a lot less painful.

~ Cassandra Clare

Even more blood welled up and spilled down his arm, splattering onto the ground.“Camille’s carpet,” Magnus protested.“It’s blood,” said Will. “She ought to be thrilled.

~ Cassandra Clare

I thought you were dead. Magnus smiled crookedly. What, from that scratch? He glanced down at the reddening jacket in Alec's hand. Okay, a deep scratch. Like, from a really, really big cat.

~ Cassandra Clare

Jem grinned. “Where have you been? The Blue Dragon? The Mermaid?” “The Devil Tavern if you must know.” Will sighed and leaned against one of the posts of the bed. “I had such plans for the evening. The pursuit of blind drunkenness and wayward women was my goal. But alas, it was not to be. No sooner had I consumed my third drink in the Devil than I was accosted by a delightful small flower-selling child who asked me for two-pence for a daisy. The price seemed steep, so I refused. When I told the girl as much, she proceeded to rob me.” “A little girl robbed you?” Tessa said. “Actually, she wasn’t a little girl at all, as it turns out, but a midget in a dress who goes by the name of Six-Fingered Nigel.” “Easy mistake to make,” Jem said.

~ Cassandra Clare

You think that's the solution to everything, don't you, Bane? Drinking and dancing and making love... but I tell you this, something is coming, and we'd be fools to ignore it.When have I ever claimed not to be a fool?

~ Cassandra Clare

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

Magnus rolled onto his back and put his feet up on the arm of the sofa. “What do you care if Alec’s miserable?” “What do I care?” Jace said, so loudly that Chairman Meow rolled off the couch and landed on the floor. “Of course I care about Alec; he’s my best friend, my parabatai. And he’s unhappy. And so are you, by the look of things. Takeout containers everywhere, you haven’t done anything to fix up the place, your cat looks dead—“ “He’s not dead.

~ Cassandra Clare

Every student, Shadowhunter and mundane alike, knew the name Herondale. It was Jace’s last name. It was the name of heroes.

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Heroes endure because we need them. Not for their own sakes.

~ Cassandra Clare

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

Sharp are the arrows of a broken heart.

~ Cassandra Clare

I screwed her over. I didn't want to see her screwed over by someone else.

~ Cassandra Clare

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

She could ask for anything, she thought dizzily, anything--an end to pain or world hunger or disease, or for peace on earth. But then again, perhaps these things weren't in the power of angels to grant, or they would already have been granted. And perhaps people were supposed to find these things for themselves.

~ Cassandra Clare

The way he looked at you. I got it then. He loved you, and it was killing him. He won't get over you, Clary, he can't.

~ Cassandra Clare

I want you to be happy, and him to be happy. And yet when you walk down that aisle to meet him and join yourselves forever you will walk an invisible path of the shards of my heart, Tessa. I would give over my own life for either of yours. I perhaps that when you told me you did not love me my 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. It is unfair to tell you this, I know, when you can do nothing about it.

~ Cassandra Clare

It is not easy to be different, and even less so to be unique. But I begin to think I was never meant for an easy road.

~ Cassandra Clare

as long as I can still dream, I will dream of you.

~ Cassandra Clare

This was Jace being brave. Simon thought, brave and snarky because he thought Lilith was going to kill him, and that was the way he wanted to go, unafraid and on his feet. Like a warrior. The way Shadowhunters did. His death song would always be this-jokes and snideness and pretend arrogance, and that look in his eyes that said 'I'm better than you'. Simon just hadn't realized it before.

~ Cassandra Clare

My parents raised me to get things done, no matter what. They don’t care about rules, just appearances. This whole time I’ve been telling myself that I’m going to be different from my parents, different from my sister, be the one who stuck to the straight and narrow. But I think I had it all wrong, Call. I don’t care about rules or appearances. I don’t want to be the person who just gets things done. I want to do the right thing. I don’t care if we have to lie or cheat or cut corners or break rules to do it.

~ Cassandra Clare

...We die, we turn, we are reborn as we deserve to be reborn, based on our doings in this world. Will looked down at his bitten nails. I will probably be reborn as a slug that someone salts.

~ Cassandra Clare

Every decision you make, makes you. Never let other people choose who you’re going to be.

~ Cassandra Clare

there is a fine line between sarcasm and hostility, you seemed to have crossed it. What's up?

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Shouldn't we stand back to back or something? What? Why? I don't know. In movies that's what they do in this kind of… situation.

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I see that even as the world plunges into darkness and peril, you two stand around discussing your love lives. Teenagers.

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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

Where is your angel now?

~ Cassandra Clare

There's nothing wrong with George. It is not possible to find fault with George. He's a perfect Scottish angel. He always shares the snacks that his mother sends him and he's better- looking than Jace. There, I said it. I'm not taking it back.

~ Cassandra Clare

El hambre agudiza el ingenio,” said Raphael.Hunger sharpens the wit.“Good proverb,” said Magnus. “However, like most proverbs, it sounds wise and yet does not actually clarify anything.

~ Cassandra Clare

The posters bore the words WITH THE PASSING YEARS COMES...IMPOTENCE! Magnus found himself staring at the posters with a sort of absent horror. He looked at Alec and found that Alec could not tear his eyes away either. He wondered if Alec was aware that Magnus was three hundred years old and whether Alec was considering exactly how impotent one might become after that much time.

~ Cassandra Clare

To love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be destroyed

~ Cassandra Clare

Will looked horrified. What kind of monster could possibly hate chocolate?

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The Nephilim - the bogeyman for monsters, and all those who could be monsters.

~ Cassandra Clare

All that existed was Jace; all she felt, hoped, breathed, wanted, and saw was Jace. Nothing else mattered.

~ Cassandra Clare

From the first time I saw you, I've belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me. -Jace

~ Cassandra Clare