Cassandra Clare famous quotes

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

#Memories #Loss #Long

Every book is different with it's own personality just like children.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Children #Book #Personality

Everything that happens to you matters to me.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Matter #Jace

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

#Real #Believe #Writing

I screwed her over. I didn't want to see her screwed over by someone else.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Broken Heart #Want

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

#Real #Book #Reading

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

#Inspirational #Funny #Book

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

#Fantasy #Rich #Mythology

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

#Humor #Mean #Black

I keep in touch with my fans by keeping a blog online and I try to answer questions every day. I also have a twitter and a facebook. I think that social networking gives authors a unique insight in the minds of their fans and for me that is very valuable.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Unique #Thinking #Giving

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

#Mother #Revenge #Tea

I always wanted to be a writer since I was around 12 years old and I wrote my first book.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Book #Years #Firsts

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

#Inspirational #Book #Healing

For me my big dream that I would like to achieve is for each book to be better than the books that came before, to continue to improve and to become better as a writer and hopefully to have a long career .
-- Cassandra Clare

#Dream #Book #Careers

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

#Long

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

#Writing #Fantasy #Favourite

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

#Book #People #Soul

I like in books when we start the book and you really don't know how it's going to turn out.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Book #Turns

Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Book #Pages #Life Is

Too much of anything could destroy you, Simon thought. Too much darkness could kill, but too much light could blind.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Light #Darkness #Too Much

Love didn't make you weak, it made you stronger.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Stronger #Weak #Made

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

#Heartbreak #Healing #Thinking

He had electric blue hair that had stuck around his head like tendrils of a startled octopus.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Hair #Blue #Octopus

Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Love #Jace #Unrequited

If you were half as funny as you think you are, you'd be twice as funny as you are now.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Funny #Thinking #Half

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

#Falling In Love #Romantic Love #Boys

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.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Life #People #Matter

Will looked horrified. "What kind of monster could possibly hate chocolate?
-- Cassandra Clare

#Hate #Healing #Chocolate

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

#Monsters #Shadowhunters #Said

The Law is hard, but it is the Law.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Law #Lawyer

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

#Love #Happy Anniversary #Saws

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?
-- Cassandra Clare

#Humor #Monsters #Textbooks

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.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Fun #Humor #Mean

My rapier wit hides my inner pain.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Pain #Humor #Wit

You see, cuckoos are parasites. They lay their eggs in other birds' nests. When the egg hatches, the baby cuckoo pushes the other baby birds out of the nest. The poor parent birds work themselves to death trying to find enough food to feed the enormous cuckoo child who has murdered their babies and taken their places." "Enormous?" said Jace. "Did you just call me fat?" "It was an analogy." "I am not fat.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Baby #Children #Taken

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

#Lying #Moving #Doe

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

#Love #Responsibility #Caring

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.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Rip #Clothes #Shirts

Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Sarcasm #Lasts #Jace

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.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Humor #Feet #Nurse

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.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Mom #Humor #Ideas

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

#Love You #Romantic Love #Romance

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.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Hurt #Weapons #Killing

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

#Long #Six #Kind

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?
-- Cassandra Clare

#Crazy #Jail #Pet

Where there is love, there is often also hate. They can exist side by side.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Hate #Sides

You can only push the truth down for so long, and then it bubbles back up.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Long #Bubbles

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

#Giving Up #Love You #Long

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.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Choices #Matter #Ends

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.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Sound #Vomiting #Caught

Sorry, are you telling me that your demon-slaying buddies need to be driven to their next assignment with the forces of darkness by my mom?
-- Cassandra Clare

#Mom #Sorry #Darkness

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.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Running #Crazy #Order

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

#Humorous #Drawing #Romance

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

#Dream #Emo #Writing

The thing about the Mirror is that no one knows where it is. In fact, no one knows what it is.” "It’s a mirror,” Simon said. “You know – reflective, glass. I’m just assuming.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Glasses #Mirrors #Facts

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

#Opportunity #Gentleman #Sexist

Look, you can date whoever you want and I will totally support you. I am all about support. Support is my middle name.” “So that’s why you never told me your middle name. I figured it was something embarrassing.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Names #Support #Looks

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

#Humorous #Pasta #Isabelle Lightwood

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

#Funny #Daughter #Hate

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.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Believe #Drunk #Mind

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

#Love #Sweet #Attention

The way he looked at you. I got it then. He loved you, and it was killing him. He won't get over you, Clary, he can't.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Unrequited Love #I Love Him #Over You

In future, Clarissa," he said, "it might be wise to mention that you already have a man in your bed, to avoid such tedious situations." You invited him into bed?" Simon demanded, looking shaken. Ridiculous, isn't it?" said Jace. "We would never have all fit.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Wise #Men #Bed

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

#Writing #Feet #Rose

She could ask for anything, she thought dizzily, anything--an end to pain or world hunger or disease, or for peace on earth. But then again, perhaps these things weren't in the power of angels to grant, or they would already have been granted. And perhaps people were supposed to find these things for themselves.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Pain #Angel #People

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

#Coffee #Optimistic #Long

I am, in the end, what you made me.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Ends #Made

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?
-- Cassandra Clare

#Believe #Dust #Evil

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

#Heaven #Might #Way

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

#Done #Matter #Reason

You behave as if everything is funny to you, but you never laugh. Sometimes you smile when you think no one is paying attention.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Thinking #Laughing #Attention

Inanimate objects are harmless indeed, Mr. Mortmain. But one cannot always say the same of the men who use them.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Men #Inanimate Objects #Use

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

#Fate #Sky #Purple

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

#World #Tessa Gray

He was the one she was doing all this for, but sometimes she missed him so much it felt like she swallowed broken glass.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Glasses #Broken #Sometimes

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.
-- Cassandra Clare

#May #Scandal #Sides

When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Character #Men #Wish

It is as great a thing to love as it is to be loved. Love is not something that can be wasted.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Love Is

Sometimes," Jem said, "our lives can change so fast that the change outpaces our minds and hearts. It's those times, I think, when our lives have altered but we still long for the time before everything was altered-- that is when we feel the greatest pain. I can tell you, though, from experience, you grow accustomed to it. You learn to live your new life, and you can't imagine, or even really remember, how things were before.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Life #Change #Pain

Drowning yourself won't help, she told herself sternly. Now, drowning Will, on the other hand...
-- Cassandra Clare

#Hands #Helping #Drowning

Dreams can be dangerous things.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Dream #Dangerous #James Carstairs

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.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Love You #Long #Clockwork Angel

Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Cooking #Beauty Fades #William Herondale

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

#Long #Six #Kind

It isn't against the Law to be an idiot.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Law #Lawyer #Idiot

You know what the worst thing I can imagine is? Simon had said. Not trusting someone I love.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Imagine #Said #Not Trusting

Why didn’t you wake me up?' 'I thought you could use the rest. Besides, you were sleeping like the dead. You even drooled,' he added. 'On my shirt.' Clary‘s hand flew to her mouth. 'Sorry.' 'Its not often you get to see someone drool,' Jace observed. 'Especially with such total abandon. Mouth wide open and everything.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Sorry #Sleep #Hands

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.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Color #Soul #Black

There were some memories, though, that never faded.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Memories

The more beautiful the skin is, the more deadly it is. That's what Will's like. All that pretty face and whatnot just hides how twisted up and rotten he is on the inside.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Beautiful #Skins #Rotten

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

#Said #City Of Lost Souls #Wanted

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

#Firsts #Fallen Angels #Jace

Or maybe it's just that beautiful things are so easily broken by the world.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Beautiful #Broken #World

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

#Wall #Bricks #Fallen Angels

You're just worried they'll hire a male instructor and he'll be hotter than you." Jace's eyebrows went up. "Hotter than me?" "It could happen," Clary said, "You know, theoretically." "Theoretically the planet could suddenly crack in half, leaving me on one side and you on the other, forever and tragically parted, but I'm not worried about that either. Some things," Jace said, with his customary crooked smile, "are just too unlikely to dwell upon.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Eyebrows #Forever #Leaving

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

#Past #Forget

There was something peculiarly gratifying about shouting in a blind rage until your words ran out. Of course, the aftermath was less pleasant. Once you'd told everyone you hated them and not to come after you, where exactly did you go?
-- Cassandra Clare

#Aftermath #Blind #Rage

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.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Crush #Love You #Trying

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.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Thinking #Voice #Doorways

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

#Stars #Flames #Attention