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

• How awfully convenient for you, regardless. And for him. He won't have to worry about you spilling his secrets." "Yeah,"Jace said. "He's terrified I'll tell everyone that he's always wanted to be a ballerina.

  City of Ashes

• Whatever you are physically...male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy--all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but you are the light inside.

  Clockwork Angel

• No. That's Clary; shes's my best friend."Simon pocketed his phone. "And she has a boyfriend. Like, really, really, really has a boyfriend. The nuclear bomb of boyfriends. Trust me on this one.

  City of Fallen Angels

• I have a high pain threshold. In fact, it's more of a large and tastfully decorated foyer than a threshold. But I do get easily bored

  City of Bones

• And next time you're planning to injure yourself to get me attention, just remember that a little sweet talk works wonders.

  City of Bones

• As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?

  City of Ashes

• It’s fascinating. You know all these words, and they’re all English, but when you string them together into sentences, they just don’t make any sense.

  City of Fallen Angels

• I guess it’s true what they say,"observed Jace. "There are no straight men in the trenches." "That’s atheists, jackass,"said Simon furiously. "There are no atheists in the trenches.

• aren't you, uh... reproducing?"sure, we love reproducing it's one of our favorite things.

  City of Bones

• Hearts are breakable,"Isabelle said. "And I think even when you heal, you're never what you were before".

  City of Fallen Angels

• Going round and around inside a dryer can be fatal, whereas pasta is rarely fatal. Unless Isabelle makes it.

  City of Bones

• All knowledge hurts.

  City of Bones

• I don't do what I'm told, but I might do what you want if you ask me nicely.

  City of Ashes

• Something inside Clary cracked and broke, and words came pouring out. 'What do you want me to tell you? The truth? The truth is that I love Simon like I should love you, and I wish he was my brother and you weren't, but I can't do anything about that and neither can you!

  City of Ashes

• He made a sound like a choked laughed before he reached out and pulled her into her arms. She was aware of Luke watching them from the window, but she shut her eyes resolutely and buried her face against Jace's shoulder. He smelled of salt and blood, and only when his mouth came close to her ear did she understand what he was saying, and it was the simplest litany of all: her name, just her name.

  City of Bones

• Watching Jace hug Isabelle, she tried to school her features into a happy and loving expression."Are you all right?"Simon asked, with some concern. "Your eyes are crossing.

  City of Ashes

• Basia coquum,"Simon said. "Or whatever their motto is." "It's 'Descensus Averno facilis est.' 'The descent into hell is easy,"said Alec. "You just said "Kiss the cook." "Dammit,"said Simon. "I knew Jace was screwing with me.

  City of Lost Souls

• If there's a thing I've learned in my life it's to not be afraid of the responsibility that comes with caring for other people. What we do for love: those things endure. Even if the people you do them for don't

• And to the devil with it if she is!"said the Consul. "One girl, who is not Nephilim, is not, cannot, be our priority." "She is my priority!"Will shouted.

  Clockwork Princess

• Men may be stronger, but it is women who endure.

  Clockwork Princess

• By the Angel,"Jace said, looking the demon up and down. "I knew Greater Demons were meant to be ugly, but no one ever warned me about the smell."Abbadon opened its mouth and hissed. Inside its mouth were two rows of jagged glass-sharp teeth."I'm not sure about this wind and howling darkness business,"Jace went on, "smells more like landfill to me. You sure you're not from Staten Island?

  City of Bones

• Lawful good to lawful evil!"said Simon, pleased."He's quoting Dungeons and Dragons,"said Clary. "Ignore him.

  City of Ashes

• Pretty soon the only people left without a girlfriend will be me and Wendell the school janitor, and he smells like windex." "At least you know he's still available.

  City of Bones

• Jace's eyes sparkled, but he said calmly, "Not at all. the Silent Brothers can help her retrieve her memories." "You hate the Silent Brothers,"protested Isabelle."I don't hate them,"said Jace candidly."I'm afraid of them. It's not the same thing." "I thought you said they were libarians,"said Clary."They are librarians."Simon whistled. "Those must be some killer late fees.

  City of Bones

• Also, I'm sleeping with your mom. Just thought you should know.

  City of Bones

• So it's true. You can walk in sunlight. I thought perhaps it might have worn off." "If I feel the urge to burst into flames, I'll let you know.

  City of Glass

• We live and breathe words.

  Clockwork Prince

• I've got the Mark of Cain,"said Simon. "That means nothing can kill me, right?" "You can kill yourself,"Magnus said, somewhat unhelpfully. "As far as I know, inanimate objects can accidentally kill you. So if you were planning on teaching yourself the lambada on a greased platform over a pit full of knives, I wouldn't." "There goes my Saturday.

  City of Lost Souls

• Look, did you ask me to come all the way uptown just so you could stare at me like I was something in a petri dish? Next time I'll send you a photo." "And I'll frame it and put it on my nightstand,"said Jace.

  City of Glass

• I believe in good and evil,"said Jem. "And I believe the soul is eternal. But I don't believe in the fiery pit, the pitchforks, or endless torment. I do not believe you can threaten people into goodness."Tessa looked at will. "What about you? What do you believe?"Pulvis et umbra sumus,"said Will, not looking at her as he spoke. "I believe we are dust and shadows. What else is there?

  Clockwork Angel

• There is no pretending",Jace said with absolute clarity."I love you,and I will love you until I die,and if there's a life after that,I'll love you then."She caught her breath.He had said it-the words there was no going back from.

  City of Glass

• That sounds terrific, thought Cary, just you, your comatose wife your shell-shocked son, and your daughter who hates your guts. Not to mention that your two kids may be in love with each other. Yeah, that sounds like a perfect family reunion.

  City of Bones

• 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.

  City of Heavenly Fire

• I can only assume,"said Jace, "that mortal emotions amuse you because you have none of your own.

  City of Ashes

• Other crack teams get bat boomerangs and wall-climbing powers; we get Aquatruck.

  City of Ashes

• Astriola. That IS demon pox. You had evidence that demon pox existed and you didnt mention it to me! Et tu, Brute!' He rolled up the paper and hit Jem over the head with it.

  Clockwork Prince

• Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change -Clary Fray

  City of Ashes

• She leaned forward and caught at his hand, pressing it between her own. The touch was like white fire through his veins. He could not feel her skin only the cloth of her gloves, and yet it did not matter. You kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire. He had wondered once why love was always phrased in terms of burning. The conflagration in his own veins, now, gave the answer.

  Clockwork Princess

• to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.

  City of Bones

• No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily.

  Clockwork Princess

• If there were such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood.

  City of Bones

• 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.

  City of Ashes

• How can you tell? That I like books, I mean.The look on your face when you walked in, somehow I doubted you were that impressed by me.

  City of Bones

• Well,” Tessa said, sighting along the line of the knife, “you behave as if you dislike me. In fact, you behave as if you dislike us all.”“I don’t,” Gabriel said. “I just dislike him.” He pointed at Will.“Dear me,” said Will, and he took another bite of his apple. “Is it because I’m better-looking than you?

  Clockwork Prince

• I'm sorry. I use my rapier wit to hide my inner pain.

• I've never minded it,"he went on. "Being lost, that is. I had always thought one could not truly be lost if one knew one's own heart. But I fear I may be lost without knowing yours.

  Clockwork Prince

• There are memories that time does not erase... Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.

  City of Heavenly Fire

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

  City of Lost Souls

• Take off your shirt."Jace raised his eyebrows. "I'm not going to attack you,"she said impatiently. "I can take the sight of your naked chest without swooning." "Are you sure?"he asked, obediently sliding the shirt off his shoulders. "Because viewing my naked chest has caused many women to seriously injure themselves stampeding to get to me.

  City of Lost Souls

• Looking at him now-even if she hadn't been in love with him, that part of her that was her mother's daugher, that loved every beautiful thing for its beauty alone, would still have wanted him.

  City of Glass

• Haven't you ever heard that modesty is an attractive trait?" "Only from ugly people,"Jace confided. "The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me."He winked at the girls, who giggled and hid behind their hair.

  City of Bones

• If we're going to the Silent City, you might want to get dressed. I mean, I appreciate the bra-and-panties look, but I don't know if the Silent Brothers will. There are only a few of the left, and I don't want them to die of excitement.

  City of Fallen Angels

• Fresh is better. But you've never drunk fresh blood. Have you?"Simon raised his eyebrow in response."Well, aside from mine of course,"Jace said. "And I'm pretty sure my blood is fan-tastic.

  City of Glass

• But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it.

  City of Fallen Angels

• When you love someone, you don't have a choice. Love takes your choices away.- Clary Fray

  City of Ashes

• You had to know a person well to make them laugh like that.

  Clockwork Prince

• And now,"Eric yelled into his mircophone, "we're going to sing a new song-one we just wrote. This one's for my girlfriend. We've been going out for three weeks, and, damn, our love is true. We're gonna be together forever, baby. This one's called 'Bang You Like a Drum.

  City of Fallen Angels

• As it turned out, everyone wanted a doughnut. Jace wanted two.

• You know that feeling,” she said, “when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel the cold and darkness coming, see the net drawing tight around the characters who live and breathe on the pages. But you are tied to the story as if being dragged behind a carriage and you cannot let go or turn the course aside.

  Clockwork Princess

• She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all?

  Clockwork Prince

• I can't believe he didn't have the dignity and presence of mind just to get drunk and pass out in some gutter,"said Jace. "I must say, I'm disappointed in the little fellow.

  City of Ashes

• Ah,” said Magnus. “Nerd love. It is a beautiful thing, while also being an object of mockery and hilarity for those of us who are more sophisticated.

  City of Lost Souls

• I thought perhaps that when you told me you did not love me that my own feelings would fall away and atrophy, but they have not. They have grown every day. I love you now more desperately, this moment, than I have ever loved you before, and in an hour I will love you more than that

  Clockwork Princess

• Every time I think I'm missing a piece of me, you give it back.

  City of Heavenly Fire

• She had never imagined she had the power to make someone else so happy. And not a magical power, either--a purely human one.

  Clockwork Prince

• Oh, you know. Jace reminds me of an old boyfriend. Some guys look at you like they want sex. Jace looks at you like you've already had sex, it was great, and now you're just friends--even though you want more. Drives girls crazy. You know what I mean?"Yes, Clary thought. "No,"she said.pg. 280

  City of Ashes

• What I actually want to call you is a hell of a lot more unprintable than your name

  City of Ashes

• Jace looked as if she had slapped him. "Why are you determined not to believe us?" "Because she loves you,"said Valentine.Clary felt the blood drain out of her face.

  City of Bones

• One does no question miracles, or complain that they are no constructed perfectly to one's liking.

  Clockwork Princess

• You have something on your neck. What Looks like a bite mark, what were you doing out all night, anyway? Nothing. I went walking in the park. Tried to clear my head. And ran into a vampire What? No! I fell. On your neck?

• I think everything that happened in Idris-Valentine, Max, Hodge, even Sebastian-I kept shoving it all down, trying to forget, but it's catching up with me. I... I'll get help. I'll get better. I promise." "You promise." "I swear on the Angel."He ducked his head down, kissed her cheek."The hell with that. I swear on us.

  City of Fallen Angels

• You're Valentine's son. I'm sure you're the one the Queen really wants to see. Besides, you're charming. Maybe not at the moment.

  City of Ashes

• My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health.

  City of Bones

• Must I go bound while you go freeMust I love a manwho doesn't love meMust I be born with so little artAs to love a man who'll break my Heart

  Clockwork Prince

• Never doubt my weaseling abilities, Shadowhunter, for they are epic and memorable in their scope.

• I think she just asked if she could touch my mango.

  City of Fallen Angels

• the [coat] rack above his head like a javelin.On the other side of the door was Jace. He blinked. "Is that a coatrack?"Jordan slammed the coatrack down on the ground and sighed. "If you'd been a vampire, this would have been a lot more useful." "Yes,"said Jace. "Or, you know, just someone with a lot of coats.

  City of Fallen Angels

• Herondales."Zachariah's voice was a breath, half laughter, half pain. "I had almost forgotten. No other family does so much for love, or feels so much guilt for it. Don't carry the weight of the world on you, Jace. It's too heavy for even a Herondale to bear.

  City of Heavenly Fire

• I'm the warlock who's here to cure you. Didn't they tell you I was coming?" "I know who you are, but..."Maia looked dazed. "You look so...so...shiny.

• Is this one of those keep-your-friends-close-and-your-enemies-closer things?" "I though it was keep your friends close so you have someone to drive the car when you sneak over to your enemy's house at night and throw up in his mailbox.

  City of Fallen Angels

• And when I saw him[my father] lying dead in a pool of his own blood, I knew then that I hadn't stopped believing in God. I'd just stopped believing God cared. There might be a God, Clary, and there might be not. Either way, we're on our own.

  City of Bones

• Henry turned as if to dart out of the room, then swung around and stared at them, a look of confusion passing over his freckled face, as if he had only now had cause to wonder why Will, Tessa, and Jem might be crouching together in a mostly disused storage room. "What are you three doing in here, anyway?"Will tilted his head to the side and smiled at Henry. "Charades,"he said. "Massive game.

  Clockwork Angel

• molesting the vampire while he's too weak to fight back, iz? jace asked. i'm pretty sure that violates at least one of the accords.

  City of Glass

• Love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything.

  City of Fallen Angels

• Isabelle snorted, "All the boys are gay. In this truck, anyway. Well, not you, Simon." "You noticed,"said Simon. "I think of myself as a freewheeling bisexual,"added Magnus. "Please never say those words in front of my parents,"said Alec.

  City of Lost Souls

• When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, and then throw it in the face of the person who gave you the lemons until they give you the oranges you originally asked for.

• Magnus raised his hands above his head and clapped once. The room flooded with light. "You see? You think that would be possible without magic? "Actually,"replied Simon, "It is. If you watched infomercials you'd know that.

• He looked back at her, and when she saw the look on his face, she saw his eyes at Renwick’s, when he had watched the Portal that separated him from his home shatter into a thousand irretrievable pieces. He held her gaze for a split second, then looked away from her, the muscles in his throat working.

  City of Ashes

• If you're texting Magnus to say 'I think u r kewl' I'm going to kill you

  City of Ashes

• And second, keep in mind that you are a weapon. In theory, when you're done with training, you should be able to kick a hole in a wall or knock out a moose with a single punch." "I would never hit a moose,"said Clary. "They're endangered.

  City of Fallen Angels

• Not enough,"he said, letting her hair slip through his fingers. "If I kiss you all day, everyday, for the rest of my life, it won't be enough.

  City of Lost Souls

• Caliph Vathek and his dark hordeAre bound for Hell, you won’t be bored!Your faith in me will be restored—Unless this token you find untowardAnd my poor gift you have ignored.

  Clockwork Prince

• Everyone has choices to make; no one has the right to take those choices away from us. Not even out of love..

  City of Ashes

• Everything changes in my life, and the world stays the same.

  City of Ashes

• I'm not unhappy,"he said. "Only people with no purpose are unhappy. I've got a purpose.

  City of Bones

• Pulvis et umbra sumus. It's a line from Horace. 'We are dust and shadows'. Appropriate, don't you think?"Will said. "It's not a long life, killing demons; one tends to die young, and then they burn your body - dust to dust, in the literal sense. And then we vanish into the shadows of history, nary a mark on the page of a mundane book to remind the world that once we existed at all.

  Clockwork Angel

• Words were weapons, his father had taught him that, and he'd wanted to hurt Clary more than he'd ever wanted to hurt any girl. In fact, he wasn't sure he had ever wanted to hurt a girl before. Usually he just wanted them, and then he wanted them to leave him alone.

  City of Bones

• Love didn't make you weak, it made you stronger.

  City of Glass

• If you never tell anyone the truth about yourself, eventually you start to forget. The love, the heartbreak, the joy, the despair, the things I did that were good, the things I did that were shameful--if I kept them all inside, my memories of them would start to disappear. And then I would disappear.

  City of Heavenly Fire

• Don't you think 'Mark is kind of a weird name for a Shadowhunter?"Julian was saying as Emma approached. "I mean, if you really think about it. It's confusing. 'Put a Mark on me, Mark.

  City of Heavenly Fire

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