Cassandra Clare Quotes

I prefer the school of life.

Look on the bright side, said Simon, If they need a human sacrifice, you can always offer me. I'm not sure the rest of you qualify anyway.

Don't stop there. I suppose there are also, what, vampires and werewolves and zombies?Of course there are. Although you mostly find zombies farther south, where the voudun priests are.What about mummi...

He hadn't spoken a word since they'd left the manor except to snap out directions, telling her which way to turn at a fork in the road, or ordering her to skirt a pothole. Even then she doubted if he...

We're late, she said, The show is supposed to start in ten minutes. If some people hadn't decided that 'semiformal' meant 'seminaked'-Why are you calling me 'some people'? Mark inquired. I am only one...

She smiled. Her skin looked whiter than he recalled, and dark spidery veins were beginning to show beneath its surface. Her hair was still the color of spun silver and her eyes were still green as a c...

Wait a second, Clary said.I never understand why people say that, Luke said, to no one in particular. I wasn't going anywhere.

All knowledge hurts.

The bad things can't matter more than the good things

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.

Luke moved as silently as fog, while Maryse's heels sounded like gunshots on the marble floor. Clary wondered if Isabelle's propensity for unsuitable footwear was genetic.

Oh, leave it, said Jem, kicking Will, not without affection, lightly on the ankle. She’s annexed my plan! Will, Tessa said firmly. Do you care more about the plan being enacted or about getting credit...

Look, Luke went on, In all the years I've known him, there's always been exactly one place Simon wanted to be, and he's always fought like hell to make sure he got there and stayed there.Where's that?...

Yes, she's bleeding to death upstairs, but I thought I'd avoid telling you right away, because I like to draw the suspense out.

I am here to determine my relationship.Simon goggled. She couldn't be talking about him. Could she?Do you see that man? Isabelle asked, pointing at Simon. Apparently she was talking about him. That's...

Honestly, Clary, if you don't start utilizing a bit of your natural feminine superiority I just don't know what I'll do with you.

She had made the choice for him - in a moment of flight and panic, but she had made it - not realizing that her Jace would rather die than be like this, and that she'd been not so much saving his life...

Well, hello there, Mother, Sebastian said in a voice like silk. Surprised to see me?

But Jace, Clary said. Valentine taught him more than just fighting. He taught him languages, and how to play the pianoThat was Jocelyn's influence. Sebastian said her name unwillingly, as if he hated...

There are ways in which we’re so alike. We’re reckless. We don’t think before we act. We’ll do anything for people we love. And I never thought how scary that was for the people who loved me until I s...