Quotes from Cassandra Clare

You behave as if everything is funny to you, but you never laugh. Sometimes you smile when you think no one is paying attention.

I was just thinking of bunding up Cecily and feeding her to the ducks in Hyde Park," said Will, pushing his wet hair back and favoring Jem with a rare smile.

He'd felt like a jack-o-lantern for the past few days, as if his guts had been yanked out with a fork and dumped in a heap while a grinning smile stayed plastered on his face.

I do not understand how you humans can walk in shoes that are that tall." "Its my motto," said Isabelle, with a sultry smile. "Nothing less than seven inches.

If it's the lack of forbidden you're worried about. You could still forbid me to do things." "What kind of things?" She felt him smile against her mouth. "Things like this.

You serve a greater cause. Your life is not yours to throw away (Magnus Bane)

I can offer you my life, but it is a short life; I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many more beats it shall sustain

If there is a life after this one, he said, let me meet you in it, James Carstairs.

You're seventeen," Magnus said. "You can't have wasted a life you've barely lived.

All that running and getting nowhere, he thought. Story of my life.

There is more to life than surviving.

What I do know is that if we are born again, I will meet you in another life, and if there is a river, you will wait on the shores for me to come to you, so that we can cross together.

And write what you love - don't feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny.

My grandfather was a movie producer, and so I grew up on movie sets.

I tend to write in coffee shops and restaurants with friends of mine because if I'm at home, I get distracted by the television or the cats or my husband, or... you know - all of those things that make it easy to procrastinate.

"What are you doing here anyway?" "'Here' as in your bedroom or 'here' as in the great spiritual question of our purpose here on this planet?"

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, and then throw it in the face of the person who gave you the lemons until they give you the oranges you originally asked for.

There's plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it.

Pointless, needless suffering and pain? I don't suppose it would help if I told you that was the way life is. The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away.

Perfect heroines, like perfect heroes, aren't relatable, and if you can't put yourself in the protagonist's shoes, not only will they not inspire you, but the book will be pretty boring.

I try to answer all my fan mail. Sometimes I get questions from people who obviously only read the Wiki but haven't read the books. I'm like, 'But you have to read the book or you're not going to get it.'

I am in the U.K. for inspiration because I'm doing a follow on series to 'The Infernal Devices,' called 'The Last Hours.' It's a re-telling of 'Great Expectations' with 'Shadowhunters'... because why not! It's set in 1903, so I'm doing a lot of locational research.

When a movie is being made out of a book, there is a mixed reaction on the part of fans because they are both extremely excited and they are also terrified. 'They are going to take my story, and they are going to mess it up; they are going to ruin it; they're going to do this; they're going to do that.'

When two people are at one in their inmost hearts, they shatter even the strength of iron or bronze.