Quotes from Cassandra Clare

NYC Institute has one. I'll show you sometime if you want. It's a date. It is maybe the least romantic spot in the Institute, by the way. You'll make up for that, I'm sure. (Jeez, get a locked room on unsanctified ground, you two.)

Simon-"From now on I will only adress people by nodding at them." Clary-"That's stupid why would you do that?" Simon-"Because it says that 'I am a badass, and I recognive that you too, are a badass

Jace Herondale and Clary Fairchild ran the New York Institute.

What's wrong with you?" Simon demanded. "Saying 'don't panic' is guaranteed to make everyone panic! Be specific about the problem.

Perhaps," he said, "we should discuss our arrangements, then.

It was a bit warm. Still. If one could look this fabulous, one had an obligation to. One should wear everything, or one should wear nothing at all.

I loved you from the moment I read them. I love you still.

It's not Cowardly to make a choice about what you want your life to be. Choosing what's right for you, maybe that's the bravest thing you can do.

Who cares if you have a girlfriend, anyway?" "I care" Simon said gloomily. "Pretty soon the only people left without a girlfriend will be me and Wendell the school janitor. And he smells like windex.

Beautiful girls should know how to defend themselves against the advances of gentlemen.

You asked me how I, being immortal, survive so many deaths. There is no great secret. You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.

On a Tuesday they were wed And by Friday they were dead And they buried them in the churchyard side by side, Oh, my love, And they buried them in the churchyard side by side.

He could smell her morality, the sweet rot of corruption

If I'd just listened—just taken one second to listen—it wouldn't have happened

I'm just saying that I think I chose to act the way I did in part because of you. Since I've met you, everything I've done has been in part because of you. I can't untie myself from you, Clary - not my heart or my blood or my mind or any other part of me. And I don't want to.

To destroy the enemy it can be necessary to understand him.

After all, it was never Darnay he quoted, only Sydney, drunk and wrecked and dissipated. Sydney, who died for love.

I hate it when straight guys think all gay guys are attracted to them. I'm not attracted to every guy any more than you're attracted to every girl.

The handsome young fellow who's trying to rescue you from a hideous fate is never wrong.

Alec, who was watching this back-and-forth as if sitting center court in a tennis match, raised a hand. "I'm sorry, but did you two used to date?" That stopped the conversation dead in its tracks. Both Tessa and Magnus turned to him with identical looks of shock. "You seem more horrified than I do," Magnus told Tessa, "and somehow I am deeply wounded.

It's okay to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth loving.

The only one who gets to canoodle in my bedroom is my magnificent self.

La belle Isabelle

People could bear so much, but Simon did not know how much of the original you was left when the world had twisted you into a whole different shape.