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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.