Quotes from Cassandra Clare

Not at all. My services are also available to gentlemen in distress. It's an equal opportunity fetish." (Sebastian)

I love you. And I don't want to lose you.

Magnus deeply disliked people who were early to business meetings. It was just as bad as being late, since it put everyone out, and even worse, people who were early always acted terribly superior about their bad timekeeping skills. They acted as though it were morally more righteous to get up early than to stay up late, even if you got the same amount of work done in the exact same amount of time. Magnus found it to be one of the great injustices of life.

You no longer need other people in your life once you have found your true love.

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.

What if everything you believe is wrong and you could still be loved and still be forgiven?

To them, as to Magnus, time was like rain, glittering as it fell, changing the world, but something that could also be taken for granted.

I want my people to be protected, strong, and not to be driven into corners until they either become killers or are killed!

Yes," said Will, "you two don't seem to have much in common, save for a penchant for demon women and evil.

But you are not a lady, Jessamine—," Charlotte began."Dear me," said Will. "Such harsh truths so early in the morning cannot be good for the digestion.""What I mean," Charlotte said, correcting herself, "is that you are a Shadowhunter first, and a lady second.

I love you, Clary wanted to say. And, I would do it again. I would always ask for you.

Alec had his arms around Magnus and was kissing him, full on the mouth. Magnus, who appeared to be in a state of shock, stood frozen.

words have the power o change us

All my life I've felt like there was something wrong with me. Something missing or damaged." "Every teenager in the world feels like that, feels broken or out of place, different somehow, royalty mistakenly born into a family of peasants.

Simon was still trying to work out how Shadowhunter government and also Shadowhunter family trees worked. They all seemed to be related to each other and it was very disturbing.

It really was getting difficult to be wonderful.

Lord Montgomery considers nothing but his own desires," he said in a gravelly voice. "I'll tell you something else. Lord Montgomery has a very large estate...and pretty extensive grounds, too." Isabelle giggled, and Simon felt the bed shake under them. "Okay, I didn't expect you to get quite so into this." "Lord Montgomery always surpasses expectations.

And she tricked us into taking walkie-talkie rings she could listen in on," Simon said. "I wouldn't trust her further than I could throw a medium-sized elephant.

Who would ever want movies or TV when there are books?

First the flame and then the flood: In the end it's Blackthorn blood. Seek thou to forget what's past First thirteen and then the last. Search not the book of angels gray, Red or white will lead you far astray. To regain what you have lost, Find the black book at any cost.

Forever and ever, brother, hail. Forever and ever, farewell.

I don't want to be Nephilim," said Jace. "I want to be something else. Stronger, faster, better than human. But different. Not subservient to the Laws of an angel who couldn't care less about us. Free." He ran his hand through a curl of her hair. "I'm happy now, Clary. Doesn't that make a difference?

Sometimes, love worked, past any hope of change, when no other force in this world could. Without love, the miracle never came.

Their beauty had always seemed to him like the beauty of pressed flowers-lovely, but dead.