Quotes from Cassandra Clare

What is Aldous capable of?" "Aldous is two thousands years old. He's capable of anything." "Aldous Nix is two thousands years old?" "So, I've heard. He doesn't invite me to his birthday parties.

It's like a cotillion, this partners business, except with killing." "So, exactly like a cotillion," said Simon.

You've always been what you are. That's not new. What you'll get used to is knowing it.

Waiting for a special occasion to kill me? Christmas is coming.

You know, when someone prefers their own brother over you, it isn't a confidence booster.

We're not dating," Alec said again. "Oh?" Magnus said. "So you're just that friendly with everybody, is that it?

OR am I the only warlock you know?" "No... but you are the only warlock we know who happens to dating a friend of ours.

Maybe you should call him,' Simon suggested, trying not to think too hard about how weird it was to be giving a demon hunter advice about possibly dating a warlock.

Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death.

I love scuba-diving, but I hate all the equipment.

Hearts are breakable. Even when you heal, you're never what you were before.

Fate is never fair. You are caught in a current much stronger than you are; struggle against it and you'll drown not just yourself but those who try to save you. Swim with it. and you'll survive

I thought it'd be something cooler, like a van with 'Death to Demons' painted on the outside.

I have the benefit of experience which tells me that sulking solves nothing

How rude. Many who have gazed upon me have compared the experience to gazing at the radiance of the sun." Jem still had his eyes closed. "If they mean it gives you a headache, they aren't wrong.

A good adaptation of your book is worth it because it is such a wonderful experience to see your world translated onto the screen.

In fiction, the actions of a villain, even when unspeakable, can be cathartic to read about. They let us experience darkness, but add a safe remove.

Have a little faith in my magic fingers

You know how the bonds of family are, my lady... They cling as tightly as vines. And sometimes, like vines, they cling tightly enough to kill.

I would think that counted as offering resistance," Will said. "Eating one's son-in-law, that is. Though I suppose everyone has their family altercations.

we are not here just because we have nowhere else; we need nowhere else, because we have the Institute, and those who are in it are our family.

Their oldest child, James, had spoken laughingly about Will's unrelenting fear of ducks and his continual battle to keep them out of the pond at the family home in Yorkshire.

Facilis descensus averno - The descent into hell is easy

Do you really wish to disobey me, Marbas? Do you wish to anger my father?