Quotes from Cassandra Clare

One does not greet the Queen of the Seelie Court with the barbarous human 'hello'...

Go forth and light the lights of war

You are mortal. You age, you die. If that is not hell, pray tell me, what is?

What about Isabelle?" Simon asked. "Where is she?" The humor, such as it was, left Jace's expression. "She won't come out of her room," he said. "She thinks that what happened to Max was her fault. She won't even come to the funeral." "Have you tried talking to her?" "No," Jace said, "we've been punching her repeatedly in the face instead. Why, do you think that won't work?" "Just thought I'd ask." Simon's tone was mild.

He could bring a six-foot tall pink rabbit in a bikini back home with him if he wanted to. It's not my business. But if you're asking me if I've brought any girls back here, the answer is no. I don't want anybody but you.

I can't believe you know someone named Freaky Pete," said Simon. "I know alot of people," said Luke. "Not that Freaky Pete is strictly people, but I'm hardly one to talk.

She supposed it was not the most romantic thing in the world to say that every time she saw James Herondale she felt as if she'd been attcked by a waterfowl, but it was true.

Now that the real and the imagined had collided, he wondered if she, like he, longed for the past, for the normal. He wondered if normalcy was something, like vision or silence, you didn't realize was precious until you lost it.

I'm just saying that I think I chose 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.

You don't draw, and I don't breathe. Not so much like last year

She could understand suddenly why people talked about passion as fire: She felt as if they had caught aflame and were burning like the dry Malibu hills, about to become ashes that would mix together forever.

It was terrifying to love someone who was forbidden to you. Terrifying to feel something you could never speak of, something that was horrible to almost everyone you knew, something that could destroy your life.

Vampires bore a grudge longer than any technically living creatures, and whenever they were in a bad temper, they expressed themselves through murder.

To be beautiful you had to be willowy and tall. When you were as short as Clary was, just over five feet, you were cute. Not pretty or beautiful, but cute.

I carved his initials here because I always fought best with him.

Our love is forbidden like the love of a shark and a—and a shark hunter. But that's what makes it special.

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

I'm the one who's always been there for you... not him!

Oh, God," Magnus said. "They're dead. They're all dead.

Such harsh truths so early in the morning cannot be good for digestion." - Will Herondale

I love you," he said. "I don't say it often enough. I love you.

Clary and Simon continued to stare judgmentally. It made Simon very happy. Judging people together was an essential part of best friendship.

I don't carol, said Simon. I'm Jewish. I only know the dreidel song.

Jem said, "we want you to stay, and to know that the choice is entirely yours, and we wanted to show you something. We want you to know there is nothing in this house more precious to us than you.