Quotes from Cassandra Clare

You left me. You made a pet out of me, and then you left me. If love were food, I would have starved on the bones you gave me.

But you hate poetry! Yes, but you make me want to write it.

One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.

Clary stopped dead in her tracks. "Simon?" "Oh, God," said Jace, sounding resigned. "And here I'd actually hoped I'd got hold of something interesting." -Clary and Jace pg. 114

Oh, God, the lovebirds," Magnus said, pulling the pillow off his face. "I hate happy couples.

I know I told you once that whether God exists or not, we're on our own. But when I'm with you, I'm not.

It would hardly benefit me to hold anything back unnecessarily, when I know what I'm asking. For you to find a needle in--God, not even a haystack. A needle in a tower full of other needles.

God knows we're all drawn to what's beautiful and broken.

We don't require luck," said Will, "we have a heavenly mandate, after all. With God on your side, what does luck matter?

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

All things tend toward entropy. The whole universe is moving outward, the stars pulling away from one another, God knows what falling through the cracks between them.

Glory?....Glory belongs to God alone.

There is no god, not a god who would create the things I saw

What's the point in wasting a perfectly good brick wall when you have someone to throw against it, that's what I always say.

Appearances are significant, and never more than in politics. You can always sway the crowd, provided you have a good story.

Weakness and corruption isn't in the world," Clary snapped. "It's in people. And it always will be. The world just needs good people to balance it out. And you're planning to kill them all.

Let me say to you what I said once, in an entirely different context to Catherine the Great," Magnus declared. "My dear lady, you cannot afford me,and also, please leave that horse alone. Good night.

Sometimes the newly Marked go into shock. The good news is, if this happens to you, you are unlikely to notice, because you will be in shock.

It is not the same thing to be good and to be kind.

You don't believe me?" Jace asked. "Fine. Go ahead. Kiss me right now." Alec stared at him in horror. "Exactly. Despite my staggering good lucks, you actually don't like me that way.

Well, she's not responding to my advances," he observed more brightly than he felt, "so she must be dead." "Or she's a woman of good taste and sense.

You'd better hurry up to the Gard and back. God knows what depravity we might get up to here without your guidance.

There have always been readers throughout history who have been drawn to villains.

You like the party?" "Is it in honor of anything?" "My cat's birthday." "Oh." She glanced around. "Where's your cat?" "I dont know. He ran away." -Magnus & Clary, pg.221-