Quotes from Cassandra Clare

You weaseled your way into my life, Simon Lewis, and I don't know how or why or even when but it happened, and I kind of hate it but I can't change it, and here it is

I was even a little glad that if it wasn't going to be me she wanted, it was going to be someone who really deserved her.

Honestly I don't know why i have these parties" "Because of your cat" "That's true. Chairman Meow deserves my every effort

Go in peace, James Carstairs.

Samuel! Are you alright?" A vision of Samuel being brained by the falling bars rose up before Simon's eyes. Samuel's voice rose to a scream. "GO AWAY!" Simon looked sideways at Jace. "I think he means it." Jace shook his blond head in exasperation. "You had to make a crazy jail friend, didn't you? You couldn't just count ceiling tiles or tame a pet mouse like normal prisoners do?

Jules: For one, you have a terrifying older brother. Livvy: I do not have a terryfying older brother. Jules: That's true. You have two.

If you insist on trying to get yourself killed, I insist on being the one who chooses what you wear while you recover,

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.

Julian spoke through his teeth. "Malcolm, this is not a love story." "Every story is a love story.

Unfortunately, we're all out of bitter revenge at the moment, so it's either tea or nothing.

For as is often the happenstance with that which is precious and lost, when you find him again, he may well not be quite as you left him.

One minute you're munching on a faerie plum the next minute you're running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not,' he added hastily, 'that this has ever happened to me.

Tessa is gone, and every moment she is gone is a knife ripping me apart from the inside.

Later, when his father left him, the boy cried over his pet, until eventually his father sent a servant to take the body of the bird away and bury it. The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.

I prefer the school of life.

She did not belong to Will-she was too much herself to belong to anyone, even Jem-but she belonged with them, and silently he cursed the Consul for not seeing it.

Henry," said Charlotte, who appeared to have recovered from her shock, "if you set yourself on fire deliberately, I will institute divorce proceedings. Now sit down and eat your supper. And say hello to our guest.

Well, you know what they say," said James. "All the best men are either married or Silent Brothers.

We shall throw him out onto the streets, I promise you he'll be gone by morning. Oh-no, you can't mean that- Of course I don't. But you felt better for a moment there, didn't you?

We are all what our pasts have made us," Catarina said. "The accumulation of thousands of daily choices. We can change ourselves, but never erase what we've been.

At last he reached out and with a gentle hand, closed Valentine's eyes. " Ave atque vale , Shadowhunter," he said.

When a decision like that is made by a government, it emboldens those who are already prejudiced to speak their deepest thoughts of hate. They assume they are simply brave enough to say what everyone really thinks.

She managed a smile. "You're kind of pushy, you know." He shrugged. "I have a fetish for damsels in distress." "Don't be sexist." "Not at all. My services are also available to gentlemen in distress. It's an equal opportunity fetish," he said, and with a flourish, offered his arm again.

Alec raised his blue eyes."Whos Will?" Magnus exhled a sort laugh."Will.Dear God.That was a long time ago.Will was a Shadowhunter,like you.And yes,he did look like you,but your nothing like him.Jace is much more the way Will was,in personality at least-and my relationship with you is nothing like the one I had with Will.Is that whats bothering you?" "I dont like thinking your only with me because I look like so dead guy you liked.