Cassandra Clare Quotes: 242

• Have you fallen in love with the wrong person yet?'Jace said, "Unfortunately, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remains myself."..."At least,"she said, "you don't have to worry about rejection, Jace Wayland." "Not necessarily. I turn myself down occasionally, just to keep it interesting.

  City of Bones

• There is no pretending,"Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.

  City of Glass

• One must always be careful of books,"said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.

  Clockwork Angel

• Jesus!"Luke exclaimed."Actually, it's just me,"said Simon. "Although I've been told the resemblance is startling.

• Is this the part where you start tearing off strips of your shirt to bind my wounds?" "If you wanted me to rip my clothes off, you should have just asked.

  City of Bones

• I don't want to be a man,"said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead." "Well,"said Luke, "you're doing a fantastic job.

  City of Ashes

• Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.

  Clockwork Angel

• We came to see Jace. Is he alright?" "I don't know,"Magnus said. "Does he normally just lie on the floor like that without moving?

  City of Ashes

• Don't touch any of my weapons without my permission." "Well, there goes my plan for selling them all on eBay,"Clary muttered."Selling them on what?"Clary smiled blandly at him. "A mythical place of great magical power.

  City of Bones

• It means 'Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of our Enemies Since 1234'.

  City of Bones

• And I'm suppose to sit by while you date boys and fall in love with someone else, get married...?"His voice tightened. "And meanwhile, I'll die a little bit more every day, watching.

  City of Glass

• Do you remember back at the hotel when you promised that if we lived, you’d get dressed up in a nurse’s outfit and give me a sponge bath?"asked Jace."It was Simon who promised you the sponge bath." "As soon as I’m back on my feet, handsome,"said Simon."I knew we should have left you a rat.

  City of Bones

• Malachi scowled. "I don't remember the Clave inviting you into the Glass City, Magnus Bane." "They didn't,"Magnus said. "Your wards are down." "Really?"the Consul's voice dripped sarcasm. "I hadn't noticed."Magnus looked concerned. "That's terrible. Someone should have told you."He glanced at Luke. "Tell him the wards are down.

  City of Glass

• Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.

  City of Bones

• I am a man"he told her, "and men do not consume pink beverages. Get thee gone woman, and bring me something brown.

  City of Glass

• Well, I’m not kissing the mundane,"said Jace. "I’d rather stay down here and rot." "Forever?"said Simon. "Forever’s an awfully long time."Jace raised his eyebrows. "I knew it,"he said. "You want to kiss me, don’t you?

  City of Ashes

• Not everything is about you,"Clary said furiously."Possibly,"Jace said, "but you do have to admit that the majority of things are.

  City of Glass

• The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.

  City of Bones

• Is this the part where you say if I hurt her, you'll kill me?" "No"Simon said, "If you hurt Clary she's quite capable of killing you herself. Possibly with a variety of weapons.

  City of Glass

• You said you were going for a walk!? What kind of walk takes six hours?" "A long one?

  City of Glass

• You could have had anything else in the world, and you asked for me."She smiled up at him. Filthy as he was, covered in blood and dirt, he was the most beautiful thing she'd ever seen."But I don't want anything else in the world.

  City of Glass

• That does it,"said Jace. "I'm going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year." "Why?"Isabelle said."So you can look up 'fun.' I'm not sure you know what it means.

  City of Ashes

• Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.

  Clockwork Princess

• I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass.

• Remember when you tried to convince me to feed a poultry pie to the mallards in the park to see if you could breed a race of cannibal ducks?" "They ate it too,"Will reminisced. "Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck.

  Clockwork Angel

• Don't order any of the faerie food,"said Jace, looking at her over the top of his menu. "It tends to make humans a little crazy. One minute you're munching a faerie plum, the next minute you're running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not,"he added hastily, "that this has ever happened to me.

  City of Bones

• One of the Silent Brothers is here to see you. Hodge sent me to wake you up. Actually he offered to wake you himself, but since it's 5 a.m., I figured you'd be less cranky if you had something nice to look at." "Meaning you?" "What else?

  City of Bones

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

  Clockwork Angel

• Can I help you with something?"Clary turned instant traitor against her gender. "Those girls on the other side of the car are staring at you."Jace assumed an air of mellow gratification. "Of course they are,"he said, "I am stunningly attractive.

  City of Bones

• I've got a stele we can use. Who wants to do me?" "A regrettable choice of words,"muttered Magnus.

  City of Ashes

• Investigation?"Isabelle laughed. "Now we're detectives? Maybe we should all have code names." "Good idea,"said Jace. "I shall be Baron Hotschaft Von Hugenstein.

  City of Bones

• You guessed? You must have been pretty sure, considering you could have killed me." "I was ninety percent sure." "I see,"Clary said. There must have been something in her voice, because he turned to look at her. Her hand cracked across his face, a slap that rocked him back on his heels. He put his hands on his cheek, more in surprise than pain."What the hell was that for?" "The other ten percent.

  City of Bones

• Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.

  City of Bones

• Don't."Clary raised a warning hand. "I'm not really in the mood right now." "That's got to be the first time a girl's ever said that to me,"Jace mused.

  City of Bones

• What's this?"he demanded, looking from Clary to his companions, as if they might know what she was doing there."It's a girl,"Jace said,recovering his composure. "Surely you've seen girls before, Alec. Your sister Isabelle is one.

  City of Bones

• You know,"Gabriel said, "there was a time I thought we could be friends, Will." "There was a time I thought I was a ferret,"Will said, "but that turned out to be the opium haze. Did you know it had that effect? Because I didn't.

  Clockwork Angel

• People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.

  City of Glass

• Just because you call an electric eel a rubber duck doesn't make it a rubber duck, does it? And God help the poor bastard who decides they want to take a bath with the duckie. (Jace Wayland)

  City of Bones

• Mom. I have something to tell you. I’m undead. Now, I know you may have some preconceived notions about the undead. I know you may not be comfortable with the idea of me being undead. But I’m here to tell you that undead are just like you and me … well, okay. Possibly more like me than you.

  City of Ashes

• No, I'm just a very naughty boy. I do all sorts of bad things. I kick kittens. I make rude gestures at nuns.

  City of Ashes

• It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.

  Clockwork Angel

• Usually I'm remarkably good natured. Try me on a day that doesn't end in y.

• Is standing by the window muttering about blood something he does all the time?"asked Simon."No,"Jace said. "Sometimes he sits on the couch and does it.

  City of Ashes

• 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 mummies? Do they only hang around Egypt?" "Don't be ridiculous. No one believes in mummies.

  City of Bones

• There's plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it.

  Clockwork Angel

• Ah,” said a voice from the doorway, “having your annual ‘everyone thinks Will is a lunatic’ meeting, are you? “It’s biannual,” said Jem. “And no, this is not that meeting.

  Clockwork Prince

• The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me.

  City of Bones

• If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?

  Clockwork Angel

• What are all these?"Clary asked."Vials of holy water, blessed knives, steel and silver blades,"Jace said, piling the weapons on the floor beside him, "electrum wire - not much use at the moment but it's always good to have spares - silver bullets, charms of protetion, crucifixes, stars of David-" "Jesus,"said Clary"I doubt he'd fit." "Jace."Clary was appalled.

  City of Bones

• So when the moon's only partly full, you only feel a little wolfy?" "You could say that." "Well, you can go ahead and hang your head out the car window if you feel like it." "I'm a werewolf, not a golden retriever.

• Your friend's poetry is terrible,"he said.Clary blinked, caught momentarily off guard. "What?" "I said his poetry was terrible. It sounds like he ate a dictionary and started vomiting up words at random.

  City of Bones

• It wouldn't be my move,"Jace agreed. "First the candy and flowers, then the apology letters, then the ravenous demon hordes. In that order.

  City of Bones

• I'll just have them change the entry in the demonology textbook from 'almost extinct' to 'not extinct enough for Alec. He prefers his monsters really, really extinct.' Will that make you happy?

  City of Ashes

• They’re not hideous,” said Tessa. Will blinked at her. “What?” “Gideon and Gabriel,” said Tessa. “They’re really quite good-looking, not hideous at all.” “I spoke,” said Will, in sepulchral tones, “of the pitch-black inner depths of their souls.” Tessa snorted. “And what color do you suppose the inner depths of your soul are, Will Herondale?” “Mauve,” said Will.

  Clockwork Prince

• That's why when major badasses greet each other in movies, they don't say anything, they just nod. The nod means, 'I' am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass,' but they don't say anything because they're Wolverine and Magneto and it would mess up their vibe to explain.

  City of Bones

• It's not gray,"Clary felt compelled to point out. "It's green." "If there was such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood,"said Jace.

  City of Bones

• It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.

  Clockwork Prince

• Where there is love, there is often also hate. They can exist side by side.

  City of Bones

• You could have fooled me. Everytime I called you, Luke said you were sick. I figured you were avoiding me. Again." "I wasn't. I did want to talk to you. I've been thinking about you all the time." "I've been thinking about you, too." "I really was sick. I swear. I almost died back there on the ship, you know." "I know. Everytime you almost die, I almost die myself.

  City of Ashes

• Did you ever think that in a past life Alec was an old woman with ninety cats who was always yelling at the neighborhood kids to get off her lawn? Because I do,

  City of Glass

• A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance covers?

  City of Bones

• I don't want tea,"said Clary, with muffled force. "I want to find my mother. And then I want to find out who took her in the first place, and I want to kill them." "Unfortunately,"said Hodge, "we're all out of bitter revenge at the moment, so it's either tea or nothing.

  City of Bones

• I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you.

  Clockwork Prince

• I thought I'd lie on the floor and writhe in pain for a while,"he grunted, "It relaxes me." "It does? Oh - you're being sarcastic. That's a good sign probably.

  City of Ashes

• You're an idiot." "I've never claimed to be otherwise.

  City of Bones

• Even in half demon hunter clothes, Clary thought, he looked like the kind of boy who'd come over your house to pick you up for a date and be polite to your parents and nice to your pets.Jace on the other hand, looked like the kind of boy who'd come over your house and burn it down just for kicks.

  City of Bones

• Are you implying that shreds of my reputation remain intact?"Will demanded with mock horror. "Clearly I have been doing something wrong. Or not something wrong, as the case may be."He banged on the side of the carriage. "Thomas! We must away at once to the nearest brothel. I seek scandal and low companionship.

  Clockwork Angel

• Jace shook his blond head in exasperation. "You had to make a crazy jail friend, didn't you? You couldn't just count ceiling tiles or tame a pet mouse like normal prisoners do?

  City of Glass

• My rapier wit hides my inner pain.

• Let me give you a piece of advice. The handsome young fellow who's trying to rescue you from a hideous fate is never wrong. Not even if he says the sky is purple and made of hedgehogs.

  Clockwork Angel

• Patience, grasshopper,"said Maia. "Good things come to those who wait." "I always thought that was 'Good things come to those who do the wave,'"said Simon. "No wonder I've been so confused all my life.

  City of Glass

• You might want to lie down,"Magnus advised. "I find that it helps when the crushing sense of horrible realization sets in.

  City of Ashes

• What do you want?" "Just coffee. Black - like my soul.

  City of Bones

• 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.

  City of Bones

• You're the first Shadowhunter I've ever met."“That’s too bad,” said Jace, “since all the others you meet from now on will be a terrible letdown.

  City of Fallen Angels

• I know it's wrong - God, it's all kinds of wrong - but I just want to lie down with you and wake up with you, just once, just once ever in my life.

  City of Glass

• Have you tried talking to her?" "No. We've been punching her in the face repeatedly. What? You don't think that will work?

  City of Glass

• If you're texting Magnus to say 'I think u r kewl,' I'm going to kill you." "Who's Magnus?"Max inquired."He's a warlock,"said Alec."A sexy, sexy warlock,"Isabelle told Max, ignoring Alec's look of total fury."But warlocks are bad,"protested Max, looking baffled."Exactly,"said Isabelle.

  City of Glass

• Alec looked at her and shook his head. "How do you manage never to get mud on your clothes?"Isabelle shrugged philosophically. "I'm pure at heart. It repels the dirt.

  City of Ashes

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

  Clockwork Princess

• Trains are great dirty smoky things,"said Will. "You won't like it."Tessa was unmoved. "I won't know if I like it until I try it, will I?" "I've never swum naked in the Thames before, but I know I wouldn't like it." "But think how entertaining for sightseers,"said Tessa, and she saw Jem duck his head to hide the quick flash of his grin.

  Clockwork Prince

• We need to talk. All of us About what we're going to do now." "I was going to watch Project Runway.

  City of Ashes

• Well, she's not responding to my advances,"he observed more brightly than he felt, "so she must be dead." "Or she's a woman of good taste and sense.

  Clockwork Angel

• Will rolled up his sleeves. "We'll probably have to knock down the door--" "Or,"said Jem, reaching out and giving the knob a twist, "not."The door swung open onto a rectangle of darkness. "Now, that's simply laziness,"said Will.

  Clockwork Angel

• I figured all your classes were stuff like Slaughter 101 and Beheading for Beginners."Jace flipped a page. "Very funny, Fray.

  City of Bones

• Clary felt suddenly annoyed. "When the self-congratulatory part of the evening is over, maybe we could get back to saving my best friend from being exsanguinated to death?" "Exsanguinated,"said Jace, impressed. "That's a big word." "And you're a big-" "Tsk tsk,"he interupted. "No swearing in church.

  City of Bones

• It's the mortal cup Jace, not the mortal toilet bowl.

• Sebastian just smiled. “I could hear your heart beating,” he said softly. “When you were watching me with Valentine. Did it bother you?”“That you seem to be dating my dad?” Jace shrugged. "You’re a little young for him, to be honest.”“What?” For the first time since Jace had met him, Sebastian seemed flabbergasted.

  City of Glass

• Sometimes, when I have to do something I don't want to do, I pretend I'm a character from a book. It's easier to know what they would do.

  Clockwork Angel

• You know, some people think Shadowhunters are just myths. Like mummies and genies."Kyle grinned at Jace. "Can you grant wishes?" "That depends,"he said. "Do you wish to be punched in the face?

  City of Fallen Angels

• That was enterprising,"Will sounded nearly impressed.Nate smiled. Tess shot him a furious look. "Don't look pleased with yourself. When Will says 'enterprising' he means 'morally deficient.'" "No, I mean enterprising,"said Will. "When I mean morally deficient, I say, 'Now, that's something I would have done'.

  Clockwork Angel

• There's no need to clarify my finger snap,"said Magnus. "The implication was clear in the snap itself.

  City of Ashes

• If you ever meet the man who could take advantage of Isabelle, you’ll have to let me know. I’d like to shake his hand. Or run away from him very fast, I’m not sure which.

  City of Glass

• Is there some particular reason that you're here?"..."Not this again." "Not what again?"said Clary."Every time I annoy him, he retreats into his No Mundanes Allowed tree house."Simon pointed at Jace.

  City of Ashes

• I forgot that's what gets you all hot and bothered, Jace, girls killing things." "I like anyone killing things, especially me."he said with a smile.

  City of Bones

• 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.

  City of Glass

• If no one cares for you at all, do you even really exist?

  Clockwork Prince

• So you're a Shadowhunter,' Nate said. 'De Quincey told me that you lot were monsters.''Was that before or after he tried to eat you?' Will inquired.

  Clockwork Angel

• I have a fetish for damsels in distress.”“Don’t be sexist.”“Not at all. My services are also available to gentlemen in distress. It’s an equal opportunity fetish.

  City of Glass

• Black hair and blue eyes are my favorite combination.

  Clockwork Angel

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