Magnus Bane Quotes

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

~ Cassandra Clare

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

~ 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

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

~ 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

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

I'm the warlock who's here to cure you. Didn't they tell you I was coming?

~ Cassandra Clare

We seemed to be trapped in an episode of One Life To Waste. It's all very dull.

~ Cassandra Clare

Magnus remembered a town in Peru whose Quechua name meant “quiet place.” He recalled even more vividly being obscenely drunk and unhappy over his heartbreak of that time, and the maudlin thoughts that had recurred to him over the years, like an unwanted guest slipping in through his doors: that there was no peace for such as he, no quiet place, and there never would be.Except he found himself remembering lying in bed with Alec—all of their clothes on, lounging on the bed on a lazy afternoon, Alec laughing, head thrown back, the marks Magnus had left on his throat very plain to see.

~ Sarah Rees Brennan

They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite

~ Cassandra Clare

To them, as to Magnus, time was like rain, glittering as it fell, changing the world, but something that could also be taken for granted.Until you loved a mortal. Then time became gold in a miser's hands, every bright year counted out carefully, infinitely precious, and each one slipping through your fingers.

~ Cassandra Clare

To them, as to Magnus, time was like rain, glittering as it fell, changing the world, but something that could also be taken for granted.

~ Cassandra Clare

Magnus deeply disliked people who were early to business meetings. It was just as bad as being late, since it put everyone out, and even worse, people who were early always acted terribly superior about their bad timekeeping skills. They acted as though it were morally more righteous to get up early than to stay up late, even if you got the same amount of work done in the exact same amount of time. Magnus found it to be one of the great injustices of life.

~ Cassandra Clare

So it's true what they say about warlocks,

~ Cassandra Clare

That's your truck parked up by the factory isn't it? Magnus pointed. It's awfully butch for a bookseller.

~ Cassandra Clare

But sleep didn't come. She could hear Jace's soft piano playing through the walls, but that wasn't what was keeping her awake. She was thinking of Simon, leaving for a house that no longer felt like home to him, of the despair in Jace's voice as he said 'I want to hate you', and of Magnus, not telling Jace the truth: that Alec did not want Jace to know about his relationship because he was still in love with him. She thought of the satisfaction it would have brought Magnus to say the words out loud, to acknowledge what the truth was, and the fact that he hadn't said them - had let Alec go on lying and pretending - because that was what Alec wanted, and Magnus cared about Alec enough to give him that. Maybe it was true what the Seelie Queen had said, after all: Love made you a liar.

~ Cassandra Clare

Certainly there were places of greater natural beauty—but Paris but UNNATURAL beauty, which was arguably better.' - The Runaway Queen (The Bane Chronicles, 2) by Cassandra Clare and Maureen Johnson

~ Cassandra Clare

Even the girl he'd danced with had thought it was some marvelous trick. She had been enveloped in real, bright fire and she had tipped back her head and laughed, the tumble of her black hair becoming a crackling waterfall of light, the heels of her shoes striking sparks like glittering leaping dust all over the floor, her skirt trailing flame as if he were following a phoenix tail. Magnus had spun and swung with her, and she'd thought he was marvelous for a single moment of bright illusion. But, like love, fire didn't last.

~ Cassandra Clare

I was alive when the Dead Sea was just a lake that was feeling a little poorly.

~ Cassandra Clare

A great sadness welled up in Magnus at the sight of him. It was human to age and die, and Jem stood outside that humanity now, outside the light that burned so brightly and so briefly. It was cold outside that light and fire. No one had greater cause to know that cold than Magnus did.

~ Cassandra Clare

Magic or nature, they were much the same thing to Magnus.

~ Cassandra Clare

Our fathers were demons,' Catarina said. 'Our mothers were heroes.

~ Cassandra Clare

What if everything you believe is wrong and you could still be loved and still be forgiven?

~ Cassandra Clare

He remembered Tessa weeping in his arms in Paris, and thinking that he had never known the loss she felt, because he had never loved like she had, and that he was afraid that someday he would, and like Tessa he would lose his mortal love. And that it was better to be the one who died than the one who lived on. He had dismissed that, later, as a morbid fantasy, and had not remembered it again until Alec.

~ Cassandra Clare

If you never tell anyone the truth about yourself, eventually you start to forget.

~ Cassandra Clare

He held her close enough to kiss, close enough to whisper the most important secrets in the world, and he spoke to her as he would have wanted some good angel to speak to his family, to his own shivering young soul, long ago and in a land far away.

~ Cassandra Clare

So, what are you?What I am is someone who doesn't want you to jump out of the window. The rest are details.

~ Cassandra Clare

It had been a whim, and there was nothing Magnus attached more importance to than a whim.

~ Cassandra Clare

And who are all these people? There weren't this many when I fell asleep.Alfie shrugged, indicating that the universe was mysterious and nothing would ever be fully understood.

~ Cassandra Clare

Magnus's ship would sail that night...His interest in the ship and his thoughts of an adventure to come made him regret his departure less, but even so, he stood at the rail as the ship departed into the night waters.

~ Cassandra Clare

The first one is always the hardest.

~ Cassandra Clare

Magnus didn't really want this kind of thing this early in the morning - this talk of aching memories and wanting to forget. This conversation needed to end, now.

~ 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.

~ Cassandra Clare

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

~ Cassandra Clare

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

~ Cassandra Clare

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.

~ 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.

~ Cassandra Clare

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

Magnus reached for Alec, but instead of rising to his feet, he pulled Alec against him, his hand sliding up Alec’s back to knot in his hair. Magnus pulled Alec down and against him, and kissed him,hard and awkward and determined, and Alec froze for a moment and then abandoned himself to it, to kissing Magnus, something he’d thought he’d never get to do again. Alec ran his hands up Magnus’sshoulders to the sides of his neck and cupped his hands there, holding Magnus in place while he kissed him thoroughly breathless.

~ Cassandra Clare

[Magnus] held on to the boy, newborn in grave dirt and blood, and he wished that he had found him dead.

~ Cassandra Clare