Quotes from Cassandra Clare

What's the word for a perfectly reasonable fear of annoying idiots?

You couldn't speak to fear, couldn't tell it the truth: Fear lived in your bones.

Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change

What don't kill me... Had better start running!

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

jace's clothes had been clean, stylish, ordinary. Sebastian had been wearing a long black wool trench coat that had looked expensive. Like an evil Burbeery ad, Simon said when she was done.

You could give me the past," he said a little sadly. "But Alec is my future.

If I had not been a Shadowhunter, I would have had a future on the stage. I have no doubt I would have been greeted with acclaim.

One must look at the next step on the path ahead, rather than the mountain in the distance, or one would never reach one's goal.