110+ Cassandra Clare Quotes On Reading, Books And Fantasy

Cassandra Clare is an American author of young adult fiction. She is best known for her bestselling series The Mortal Instruments, which has been adapted into a feature film and a television series. She has also written several other series, including The Infernal Devices, The Dark Artifices, and The Last Hours. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Cassandra Clare on love, reading, books.

Top 10 Cassandra Clare Quotes

1. Parabatai" said Jace. "It means a pair of warriors who fight together - who are closer than brothers. Alec is more than justmy best friend.
2. Whither thou goest, I will go; Where thou diest, will I die And there will I be buried: The Angel do so to me, and more also, If aught but death part thee and me.
3. I love you. And I don't want to lose you.
4. Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.
5. Wherever we are, we are as one
6. We're not dating," Alec said again. "Oh?" Magnus said. "So you're just that friendly with everybody, is that it?
7. Don't bother her, don't try to talk to her, don't even look at her, or I'll fold you in half so many times you'll look like a tiny little origami werewolf.
8. The more you try to crush your true nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop.
9. Or maybe it's just that beautiful things are so easily broken by the world.
10. Tell me you love me. Tell me you love me and will fight with me.

Cassandra Clare Image Quotes

I never cared,” he said. “I wanted you anyway. I always wanted you. — Cassandra Clare

Tell me you love me. Tell me you love me and will fight with me. — Cassandra Clare

As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss. — Cassandra Clare

Cassandra Clare Short Quotes

• I never cared,” he said. “I wanted you anyway. I always wanted you.
• Well, I'm certainly not Ragnor Fell the exotic dancer.
• You could give me the past,“ he said a little sadly. “But Alec is my future.
• You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.
• Lightwoods,” Magnus said. “They always have to have the last word.
• Did Brother Zachariah just steal our cat?
• Eternity is a long time to spend alone, without others of your kind.
• You have a dark heart in you, Valentine's daughter.
• You asked me who I belong to. I belong to you.
• We are not our parents, Gabriel. We do not have to carry the burden of their choices or their sins.

Cassandra Clare Quotes About Love

You left me. You made a pet out of me, and then you left me. If love were food, I would have starved on the bones you gave me. — Cassandra Clare

Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death. — Cassandra Clare

Jem told me what Ragnor Fell said about my father,” Will said. “That for my father, there was only ever one woman he loved, and it was her for him, or nothing. You are that for me. I love you, and I will only ever love you until I die — — Cassandra Clare

My heart tells me this is the best and greatest feeling I have ever had. But my mind knows the difference between wanting what you can’t have and wanting what you shouldn’t want. And I shouldn’t want you. — Cassandra Clare

He is bound to you,” said the Queen. “But does he love you? — Cassandra Clare

As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss. — Cassandra Clare

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

I wouldn't change it," Simon said. "I wouldn't give up loving you. Not for anything. You know what Raphael told me? That I didn't know how to be a good vampire, that vampires accept that they're dead. But as long as I remember what it was like to love you, I'll always feel like I'm alive. — Cassandra Clare

Love is a contradiction. — Cassandra Clare

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 — Cassandra Clare

Cassandra Clare Quotes About Reading

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry. — Cassandra Clare

The girl behind the scrawled letters. I loved you from the moment I read them. I love you still.” - Will Herondale — Cassandra Clare

And spare me the jokes about scoring." "Dammit, woman, you read my mind," he said. "Is there no filthy wordplay you can't forsee?" "It's my special magical power. I can read your mind when you're thinking dirty thoughts." "So, ninety-five percent of the time. — Cassandra Clare

You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read. — Cassandra Clare

And write what you love - dont feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny. You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read. — Cassandra Clare

I really love fantasy. I have to say it is my favourite genre to read and one of the genres I love the most to write. — Cassandra Clare

I learned to share work with people even when it was in its rough stages without worrying that they'd be filled with scorn and hatred. After all, I can read their rough work without turning on them like a wildebeest. — Cassandra Clare

Books are for reading, not for turning oneself into livestock. — Cassandra Clare

She took out a shiny folded pamphlet, the kind they kept stacked in clear plastic stands in hospital waiting rooms. "How to Come Out to Your Parents," she read out loud. "LUKE. Don't be ridiculous. Simon's not gay, he's a vampire. — Cassandra Clare

For such a long time, when you're a writer, you really are just writing for yourself, and maybe a few friends. So it's really amazing when your book gets out there and more people are reading and responding to it. It really makes the world of the books feel real. — Cassandra Clare

Cassandra Clare Quotes About Books

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, and admired and recollected anew. - Sophie and Gideon Lightwood — Cassandra Clare

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

People who know and love the same books as you, have the road map to your soul. — Cassandra Clare

We live and breathe words. It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could never love anyone, never be loved again. It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. — Cassandra Clare

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

We can buy you one of those books they have for little kids 'Timmy Has Two Dads'. Except I don't think they have one called 'Timmy Has Two Dads and One of Them Was Evil'. That part you're just going to have to work through on your own. — Cassandra Clare

Kissing Simon was pleasant. It was a gentle sort of pleasant, like lying in a hammock on a summer day with a book and a glass of lemonade — Cassandra Clare

I can see why you like it here," he said,making a sweeping gesture that encompassed Kyle's collection of movie posters and science fiction books. "There's a thin layer of nerd all over everything." said Jace. "Thanks. I appreciate that." Simon gave Jace a hard look. — Cassandra Clare

One must always be careful of books. — Cassandra Clare

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. — Cassandra Clare

Cassandra Clare Quotes About Fantasy

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

I love reading epic fantasies and big fat books and so I really wanted to write one. I think you always write what you want to read. — Cassandra Clare

The more that you travel the more you get the sense of the word as a larger place and the more you get a sense of the variety of history and mythology. And when you know about these things you can incorporate them into what I feel is a more rich and more large tapestry of fantasy. — Cassandra Clare

I would write light entertainment nonfiction pieces during the day, then come home and work on my fantasy fiction. It was very difficult to get out of the one mindset and into another one. — Cassandra Clare

Cassandra Clare Quotes About Romance

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. — Cassandra Clare

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. — Cassandra Clare

"A date," Jace repeated. "Often a 'boring thing you have to memorize in history class," but in this case,' 'an offer of a n evening of blisteringly white-hot romance with yours truly.'" — Cassandra Clare

So I lied to you last night. I said I just wanted one night with you. But I want every night with you. And that's why I have to slip out of your window now, like a coward. Because if I had to tell you this yo your face, I couldn't make myself go. — Cassandra Clare

unrequitted love amuses me — Cassandra Clare

Cassandra Clare Quotes About Write

I keep thinking about blood, I dream about it. Wake up thinking about it. Pretty soon I'll be writing morbid emo poetry about it. — Cassandra Clare

Clary screamed out loud as he fell like a stone- And landed lightly on his feet just in front of her. Clary stared with her mouth open as he rose up out of a shallow crouch and grinned at her. "If I made a joke about just dropping in," he said, "would you write me off as a cliché? — Cassandra Clare

If I made a joke about just dropping by, would you write me off as cliché? — Cassandra Clare

I think the main thing to remember when writing a novel is to stay true to the characters. — Cassandra Clare

I am drawn to writing books about magic and the supernatural because those are the types of books I like to read. I've written many short stories with realistic settings, and I certainly wouldn't rule out realistic novels in the future! — Cassandra Clare

I don't think I ever intended specifically to write for the young adult market. It's just that when the idea for City of Bones came to me, I knew the main characters were teenagers. In my mind they were just very clearly the ages they were, which turned out to mean it was a YA novel. — Cassandra Clare

I believe that authors don't have a responsibility to include "messages" in their work, but they do have a responsibility to write a world that seems true and real, never more than when expecting readers to believe in magic and angels and fairies. — Cassandra Clare

And write what you love - don't feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny. — Cassandra Clare

Someday," Magnus said, looking at the crumpled royal person at his feet, "I must write my memoirs. — Cassandra Clare

He found himself wanting to write poetry about how her blue eyes were like starlight and her hair like night, because "night" and "starlight" rhymed, but he had a feeling the poem wouldn't turn out that well. — Cassandra Clare

Cassandra Clare Quotes About Feel

I have heard sometimes that men who lose an arm of a leg still feel that pain in those limbs, though they are gone,' said Will. 'It is like that sometimes. I can feel Jem with me, though he is gone, and it is like I am missing a part of myself. — Cassandra Clare

I feel like you can look inside me and see all the places I am odd or unusual and fit your heart around them, for you are odd and unusual in just the same way. We are the same. — Cassandra Clare

I was alive when the Dead Sea was just a lake that was feeling a little poorly. — Cassandra Clare

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 — Cassandra Clare

When Will truly wants something,” said Jem, quietly, “when he feels something — he can break your heart. — Cassandra Clare

I have a feeling you're right, Sherwin.' 'Simon. My name is Simon. — Cassandra Clare

I know you feel inhuman, and as if you are set apart, away from life and love, but... I promise you, the right man won't care. — Cassandra Clare

I feel myself diminished, parts of me spiralling away into the darkness, that which is good and honest and true - If you hold it away from yourself long enough, do you lose it entirely? If no one cares for you at all, do you even really exist? — Cassandra Clare

She supposed they were imperfections, those marks, but they didn't feel that way to her; they were a history, cut into his body: the map of a life of endless war. — Cassandra Clare

Not really, but after that I think about how I could kill him while he slept if I really wanted to, and then I feel better. — Cassandra Clare

Cassandra Clare Quotes About Funny

Other crack teams get bat boomerangs and wall-climbing powers; we get Aquatruck. — Cassandra Clare

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

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. — Cassandra Clare

Raphael snapped, "This isn't funny." "That's why no one's laughing." Jace stood, hauling Raphael upright, jamming the tip of his knife between Raphael's shoulder blades. — Cassandra Clare

The funny thing about mundies is how obsessed with magic they are for a bunch of people who don't even know what the word means. — Cassandra Clare

A forty-foot worm?" Will muttered to Jem as they moved through the Italian garden, their boots - thanks to a pair of Soundless runes - making no noise on the gravel. "Think of the size of the fish we could catch." Jem's lips twitched. "It's not funny, you know." "It is a bit. — Cassandra Clare

Funny isn’t it?” said Sebastian. “The lies good people tell. He’ll probably make you eggs every day for the rest of your life now, and you’ll choke them down because you can’t tell him you don’t like them.” Clary thought of the Seelie Queen. “Love makes liars of us all? — Cassandra Clare

And then you'd turn to me and smile that funny smile, and I know you'd forgotten all about me and just remembered -- but I was never mad at you. Half of your attention is better than all of anyone else's. — Cassandra Clare

He was wearing a look that she found odd and compelling - that amusement that didn’t seem to pass beyond the surface of his features, as he found everything in the world both infinitely funny and infinitely tragic all at the same time. — Cassandra Clare

Raphael snapped, "This isn't funny." "That's why no one's laughing." -Raphael & Jace, pg.272- — Cassandra Clare

Cassandra Clare Quotes About Throwing

You know,” Cecily said, “you really didn’t have to throw that man through the window. — Cassandra Clare

What's the point in wasting a perfectly good brick wall when you have someone to throw against it, that's what I always say. — Cassandra Clare

Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know of, and use them to embellish and define characters. — Cassandra Clare

You serve a greater cause. Your life is not yours to throw away (Magnus Bane) — Cassandra Clare

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. — Cassandra Clare

Anyway, he's [Simon] obviously not here. Go back to what you were doing. What's the point in wasting a perfectly good brick wall when you have someone to throw against it, that's what I always say." And she [Isabelle] stalked off, back toward the bar. - City of Fallen Angels pg 188 hardcover — Cassandra Clare

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 birthday party. — Cassandra Clare

You are in love and you think that is all there is in the world. But the world is bigger than you, Will, and may have need of you. You are a Shadowhunter. You serve a greater cause. Your life is not yours to throw away. — Cassandra Clare

I’m not unsympathetic. But do you like me? Because this being gay business doesn’t mean you can just throw yourself at any guy and it’ll be fine because he’s not a girl. There are still people you like and people you don’t. — Cassandra Clare

I see you're trying to distract me from the real point here," Magnus said instead. "You had a birthday - a perfect excuse for me to throw one of my famous parties - and you didn't even tell me about it? — Cassandra Clare

Cassandra Clare Quotes About Real

It didn’t matter, anyway. There was only one thing she could ask for, in the end, only one real choice. She raised her eyes to the Angel’s. "Jace," she said. — Cassandra Clare

She seemed like a creature made to attract everyone and express nothing real, though it would take a master observer, like Magnus, to know it. — Cassandra Clare

No real lady would let a dress that might have been worn by a stranger touch her skin. — Cassandra Clare

Because', she said, 'your problems are not real problems. You're dating two beautiful girls at once. Think about it. That's like...having rock-star problems.' 'Having rock-star problems may be the closest I ever get to being an actual rock star. — Cassandra Clare

They belonged to each other totally, and always would, and that was that. But maybe everyone felt that way? Until the moment they realized they were just like everyone else, and everything they'd thought was real shattered apart. — Cassandra Clare

There was no Jace Wayland more real than the one he saw in her eyes when she looked at him. — Cassandra Clare

Goodness, real goodness, has it's own sort of cruelty to it. — Cassandra Clare

Cassandra Clare Famous Quotes And Sayings

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. — Cassandra Clare

"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?" "Actually, I think you misheard," Clary said. "It was Simon who promised you the sponge bath." "As soon as I’m back on my feet, handsome," "I knew we should have left you a rat," said Jace. — Cassandra Clare

Tell me you love me. Tell me you love me and will fight with me. — Cassandra Clare

Magnus sighed. "Alexander, I've been alive for hundreds of years. I've been with men, been with women - with faeries and warlocks and vampires, and even a djinn or two." He looked sideways at Maryse, who looked mildly horrified. "Too much information? — Cassandra Clare

Pardon me, but we did not have the time to exchange that kind of personal information," Magnus said. "I could not have known! Moreover, I wish to assure both of you that I did not make any amorous advances on female monkeys." he paused and winked. "I didn't actually see any, so I never got the chance. — Cassandra Clare

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. — Cassandra Clare

She had always wanted a brother. And she had one now. Sebastian. It was like always wanting a puppy and being a hellhound instead. — Cassandra Clare

As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss. — Cassandra Clare

But the name Magnus Bane made him think of a towering sort of figure, with huge shoulders and formal purple warlock’s robes, calling down fire and lightning. Not Magnus himself, who was more of a cross between a panther and a demented elf. — Cassandra Clare

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

Will has always been the brighter burning star, the one to catch attention — but Jem is a steady flame, unwavering and honest. He could make you happy. — Cassandra Clare

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. — Cassandra Clare

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. — Cassandra Clare

"What are you doing here anyway?" "'Here' as in your bedroom or 'here' as in the great spiritual question of our purpose here on this planet?" — Cassandra Clare

Jem touched the parabatai rune on his shoulder, through the thin material of his nightshirt. "I am not alone," he said. "Wherever we are, we are as one. — Cassandra Clare

And I don’t see how Sebastian can be all that fond of Jace, either. He was horribly jealous of him all his life. He thought Jace was Valentine’s favorite,” added Clary. “Not to mention,” Magnus noted, “that Jace killed him. That would put anyone off. — Cassandra Clare

What happened to you?” Jace looked affronted. “What happened to me?” Alec shook him, not lightly. “You said you were going for a walk! What kind of walk takes six hours?” “A long one?” Jace suggested. — Cassandra Clare

Jace,” she said. “Why are you doing this to me?” “Because you’re lying to me. And you’re lying to yourself.” Jace’s eyes were blazing, and even though his hands were stuffed into his pockets, she could see that they were knotted into fists. — Cassandra Clare

By the Angel, this place is barely better than a penny gaff,” Gideon said. “Gabriel, don’t look at anything unless I tell you it’s all right. — Cassandra Clare

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. — Cassandra Clare

You snuck up on me,” she said. “I guess I’m not much of a Shadowhunter, huh?” Simon shrugged. “Well, in your defense, I do move with a silent, pantherlike grace. — Cassandra Clare

I wouldn't call that an instrument of music," Ragnor observed sourly. "An instrument of torture, perhaps. — Cassandra Clare

Ragnor looked very regretful about all the choices that had led him to his being in this place and especially in this company — Cassandra Clare

Magnus had been alive hundreds of years himself, and yet the simplest things could turn a day into a jewel, and a succession of days into a glittering chain that went on and on. Here was the simplest thing: a pretty girl liked him, and the day shone. — Cassandra Clare

Jem knotted his fingers in the material of Will's sleeve. "You are my parabatai," he said, "You said once I could ask anything of you. — Cassandra Clare

Do reasons matter when there's nothing that can be done to change things. — Cassandra Clare

Men may be stronger, but it is women who endure. — Cassandra Clare

You couldnt erase everything that caused you pain with recollection.Every memory was valuable; even the bad ones — Cassandra Clare

They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite — Cassandra Clare

I know you worry about me needing you, but I shouldn't be with you because I need you. I should be with you because I love you. — Cassandra Clare

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. — Cassandra Clare

I know about parabatai,” said Magnus, an angry, dark undercurrent to his voice. “I’ve known parabatai so close they were almost the same person; do you know what happens, when one of them dies, to the one that’s left —? — Cassandra Clare

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. — Cassandra Clare

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

A parabatai. Like he was. And Jace knew, too, what that faded rune meant: a parabatai whose other half was dead. He felt his sympathy leap toward Brother Zachariah, as he imagined himself without Alec, with only that faded rune to remind him where once he had been bonded to someone who knew all the best and worst parts of his soul. — Cassandra Clare

(Jace) "Is there anything special you want to see? Paris? Budapest? The Leaning Tower of Pisa?" Only if it falls on Sebastian's head, she thought. — Cassandra Clare

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. — Cassandra Clare

You told us to leave you in the desert, because you planned to start a new life as cactus," Catarina said, her voice flat. "Then you conjured up tiny needles and threw them at us. With pinpoint accuracy. — Cassandra Clare

What did Isabelle want?" Jace asked. Alec hesitated. "Isabelle says the Queen of the Seelie Court has requested an audience with us." "Sure," said Magnus. "And Madonna wants me as a backup dancer on her next world tour. — Cassandra Clare

Moreover, I wish to assure you both that I did not make any amorous advances on female monkeys. — Cassandra Clare

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

He began it,” Cecily said, jerking her chin at Will, though she knew it was pointless. Jem, Will’s parabatai, treated her with the distant sweet kindness reserved for the little sisters of one’s friends, but he would always side with Will. Kindly, but firmly, he put Will above everything else in the world. Well, nearly everything. — Cassandra Clare

I don't know how to live in the world as a Shadowhunter without Will. I don't think i even want to. I am still a parabatai, but my other half is gone. — Cassandra Clare

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

Dear Alec, As your best friend and parabatai, I am offended not to have been asked to be your best man at the wedding. Et tu, Brutus. -Jace Alec , he really is upset. He hasn't washed his hair in three days. -Clary — Cassandra Clare

If there is a life after this one, he said, let me meet you in it, James Carstairs. — Cassandra Clare

Our hearts, they need a mirror, Tessa. We see our better selves in the eyes of those who love us. — Cassandra Clare

I'm tired of watching you be in love with someone else someone who will never love you back, not the way I do. — Cassandra Clare

What they had between them was still as fragile as flickering candle flame, as delicate as eggshell - and he knew that if it shattered, if he somehow let it break and be destroyed, something inside him would shatter too, something that could never be fixed. — Cassandra Clare

I can offer you my life, but it is a short life; I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many more beats it shall sustain — Cassandra Clare

As far as I’m concerned, this is the worst thing that’s happened since I found out why Magnus was banned from Peru. — Cassandra Clare

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. — Cassandra Clare

Is this the part where you tell me you're secretly in love with me? Vampire mojo strikes again. — Cassandra Clare

Will smiled the way Lucifer might have smiled, moments before he fell from Heaven. — Cassandra Clare

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? — Cassandra Clare

They think they're better than everyone else." "No," said Jace. "I think I'm better than everyone else. An opinion that has been backed up with ample evidence." Kyle looked at Simon. "Does he always talk like this?" "Yes. — Cassandra Clare

Someday, Will, I will go where none can follow me, and I think it will be sooner rather than later. Have you ever asked yourself why I agreed to be your parabatai? — Cassandra Clare

A Mark that spoke of loss was still a Mark, a remembrance. You could not lose something you never had. — Cassandra Clare

Dear Alec and Magnus, How are you? Everything's just fine here. Thanks for you postcard with the picture of the Taj Mahal. It looks nice. Disregard my last few postcards. I see I overdid it. To make it up to you, I'm going to redecorate Magnus's loft for free. -Izzy — Cassandra Clare

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? — Cassandra Clare

And you should not be out and about in your nightgown. There are Lightwoods wandering these halls. — Cassandra Clare

There are some people—people the universe seems to have singled out for special destinies. Special favors and special torments. God knows we're all drawn toward what's beautiful and broken; I have been, but some people cannot be fixed. Or if they can be; its only by love and sacrifice so great that it destroys the giver. — Cassandra Clare

A very magnanimous statement, Gideon,” said Magnus. “I’m Gabriel.” Magnus waved a hand. “All Lightwoods look the same to me. — Cassandra Clare

There are memories that time can't erase, Clarissa. Ask your friend, Magnus Bane, if you don't believe me. Forever does not make loss forgettable. Only bearable. — Cassandra Clare

You can't forget the things you did in the past, or you'll never learn from them. — Cassandra Clare

Our souls are knit. We are one person, James. — Cassandra Clare

He is a Shadowhunter,” said Jocelyn. “His loyalty will be to Clave and Covenant.” “He’s my friend,” said Magnus coldly. “His loyalty is to me. — Cassandra Clare

Alec keeps sending me annoying photos. Lots of captions like Wish you were here, except not really. — Cassandra Clare

Would you?” said Gabriel to Will, hotly. “If it was your family?” His lip curled. “Never mind. It’s not as if you know the meaning of loyalty —” “Gabriel.” Gideon’s voice was a reprimand to his brother. “Do not speak to Will in that manner. — Cassandra Clare

Black hair and blue eyes are my favorite combination. — Cassandra Clare

I suppose you've always been amazing at this stuff."- Clary "I was born amazing." - Jace — Cassandra Clare

L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle. "It means that love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything. — Cassandra Clare

Life Lessons by Cassandra Clare

1. Cassandra Clare teaches us to never give up on our dreams, no matter how hard the journey may be. She also encourages us to take risks and to never be afraid of failure.
2. Clare emphasizes the importance of staying true to yourself and never letting anyone else define who you are. She also encourages us to be brave and to never be afraid to stand up for what we believe in.
3. Finally, Clare teaches us to be kind and compassionate to others, even in the face of adversity. She shows us that kindness and understanding can go a long way in helping us achieve our goals.