Cassandra Clare Quotes

It's my cologne. Eau de Recent Injury. (Jace)

It's so dark, she said lamely. You want me to hold your hand?Clary put both her hands behind her back like a small child. Don't talk down to me.Well, I could hardly talk up to you. You're too short.

I’m really grateful to you for saving us, Maia, and Jace is too, even though he’s so stubborn that he’d rather jam a seraph blade through his eyeball than say so. And don’t you say you hope he does, s...

Jace, on the other hand, looked like the sort of boy who'd come over to your house and burn it down for kicks.

James had given his heart to thisgirl, Magnus thought, and Magnus knewwell enough from Edmund and Will whatit meant when a Herondale gave his heartaway. It was not a gift that could bereturned.

Jem: I know what you're thinking.Tessa:I don't think you do.You're think, If they call this damp nastiness summer, what must winter be like? You'd be surprised. Winter's actually much the same. It's s...

Keep this and perhaps remember me.Kieran's hands tightened on the arrowhead, his knuckles whitening. The stars will go out before I forget you, Mark Blackthorn.

Let me guess, said Clary. On the inside it's an abandoned police station; from the outside, mundanes only see a condemned apartment building, or a vacant lot, or…Actually it looks like a Chinese resta...

Life was an uncertain thing, and there were some moments one wished to remember, to imprint upon one's mind that the memory might be taken out later, like a flower pressed between the pages of a book,...

Looking for an entirely reliable informant is like looking for a chaste mistress.

Magnus had often thought of getting a pet, but he had never considered acquiring a sullen teenage vampire. Once Raphael was gone, he thought, he was getting a cat. And he would always throw his cat a...

Marry me, he said. Marry me, Tess. Marry me and be Tessa Herondale. Or be Tessa Gray, or be whatever you wish to call yourself, but marry me and stay with me and never leave me, for I cannot bear anot...

Maybe I want a black eye. Did you think of that?

Mene mene tekel upsharin,' Jace said with a faint smile. 'You don't recognize it? It's from the Bible, vampire. The old one. That's your book, isn't it?'Just because I'm Jewish doesn't mean I've memor...

Now he looked at her sideways. You don’t think I look like a Shadowhunter any more?Do you want to? Cristina asked.I want to look like my family, Mark said. I cannot have the Blackthorn coloring, but I...

Now, Clary said. I don't want to wait. Do you?He didn't reply, just got up off the floor and picked his shirt. He looked at Clary, and almost smiled. If we're going to the Silent City, you might want...

Oh, God, the lovebirds, Magnus said, pulling the pillow off his face. I hate happy couples.

Okayyyyy, Isabelle said in a low voice, When did Brother Zachariah get hot?

Only Jace, Clary thought, could look cool in pajama bottoms and an old T-shirt, but he pulled it off, probably through sheer force of will.-pg. 329

Pointless, needless suffering and pain? I don’t suppose it would help if I told you that was the way life is. The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away.