Cassandra Clare Quotes

″‘You won’t hurt him,‘whispered Hodge. ‘You swore you wouldn’t hurt him.’

″‘Honored to make your acquaintance,’ he said. ‘I would be honored to make the acquaintance of anyone who could kill a Ravener with her bare hands.‘”

″‘Just promise me you won’t come home. Go to Simon’s and call Luke - tell him that he’s found me-’ Her words were drowned out by a heavy crash like splintering wood. ‘Who’s found you? Mom, did you call the police? Did you-’ [...] Clary head her mother draw in a sharp breath before speaking, her voice eerily calm: ‘I love you Clary.’ The phone went dead.”

“I said his poetry was terrible. It sounds like he ate a dictionary and started vomiting up words at random.”

“There’s Ravener poison coursing through your veins right now. you’ll be dead in an hour if you don’t come with me.”

“Just coffee. Black - like my soul.”

“Don’t get upset? You’re telling me that my dad is a guy who’s basically an evil overlord, and you want me not to get upset?”

“His eyes, fixed on Jace, seemed to burn. Between his teeth, he hissed, ‘So be it. The Forsaken will take you all.‘”

“I understand enough. [...] I understand that Jace trusted you and you traded him away to a man who hated his father and probably hates Jace, too, just because you’re too cowardly to live with a curse you deserved.”

“Why mundanes always insist on taking responsibility for things that aren’t their fault is a mystery to me. You didn’t force that cocktail down his idiotic throat.”

“I’ve been in love with you for ten years, so I thought it seemed like time to find out whether you felt the same about me. Which, I guess, you don’t.”

“When his land burned, when his home was destroyed, it was assumed that he had burned himself and the Cup to ashes rather than relinquish either to the Clave. His bones were found in the ashes, along with the bones of his wife.”

″‘No,’ she shot back without looking at him. ‘You’re telling lies with a little bit of the truth mixed in is all.‘”

“And now the two of you have plotted my betrayal together. You will regret what you have done, all the rest of your lives.”

“The point is, Simon drank one of those blue drinks-I told him not to, but he didn’t listen-and he turned into a rat.”

″‘I thought you were asking about children of mine,‘Luke interrupted smoothly. ‘Yes Jocelyn had a daughter. Clarissa. I assume she’s run off. Did Valentine send you to find her?”

″‘That whole business about Clary’s mother being married to Valentine,‘said Isabelle. [...] ‘So now he’s back from the dead and he’s come looking for her. Maybe he wants to get back together.‘”

″‘My signature,’ he said. ‘I knew it was folly when I did it. An act of hubris...”

″‘That we wound up in Pandemonium the same night that Jace and the others just happened to be there, pursuing a demon? The night before Valentine came for my mother?’ Simon shook his head. ‘I don’t believe in coincidences,’ he said.”

″‘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.‘”

″‘Just because you said dragon demons were extinct-’ ‘I said mostly extinct.’ Alec jabbed a finger toward him. ‘Mostly extinct,’ he said, his voice trembling with rage, ‘is NOT EXTINCT ENOUGH.‘”

″‘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.‘”

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

″‘Well, I’m not kissing the mundane,’ said Jace. ‘I’d rather stay down here and rot.‘”

“Things are changing. The Laws are changing. The old ways may never be the right ways again.”

“Everyone does what they must to survive. In that way even we are just like humans.”

“Clary, since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me.”

″‘When you told me the first time that Valentine was your father, I didn’t believe it,’ she said. ‘Not just because I didn’t want it to be true, but because you weren’t anything like him. But you are. You are.‘”

“You never love anything like you love your children. And nothing can make you angrier.”

“Family is more than blood.”

“I’m pure at heart. It repels the dirt.”

“I’ve heard the word ‘fear’. I simply choose to believe it doesn’t apply to me.”

“Love makes us liars.′

″‘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.‘”

″‘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.‘”

“You couldn’t rip out your own DNA, no matter how much you wished you could. No matter how much it would make you happy.”

″‘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.‘”

“A true vampire knows he is dead. He accepts his death. But you, you think you are still one of the living. It is that which makes you so dangerous. You cannot acknowledge that you are no longer alive.”

“The smoke rose in a lazy spiral, tracing delicate lines of black across the clear air. Jace, alone on the hill overlooking the cemetery, sat with his elbows on his knees and watched the smoke drift heavenward. The irony wasn’t lost on him: These were his father’s remains, after all.”

“People aren’t born good or bad. Maybe they’re born with tendencies either way, but it’s the way you live your life that matters.”