Quotes from Cassandra Clare

When two souls are as one, they stay together on the Wheel. I was born into this world to love you, and I will love you in the next life, and the one after that." ~Jem Carstairs

No. That's Clary; shes's my best friend." Simon pocketed his phone. "And she has a boyfriend. Like, really, really, really has a boyfriend. The nuclear bomb of boyfriends. Trust me on this one.

Clary made fun of him about his new look; but, then, Clary found everything about Simon's love life borderline hilarious.

He said there are thousands of Shadowhunters, but great love comes once in a lifetime if one is lucky, and one would be a fool to let it go.

It's love, not the Battle of Thermopylae. You don't have to treat everything like it's a last stand.

Have you fallen in love with wrong person yet?

I don't know why I had to fall in love with someone who's more stubborn than I am.

Poor you, you have two cute girls vying for your love. Your life is hard.

But you love her." Will stared at him. "Of course I do," he said finally. "I had come to think I would never love anyone, but I love her.

Love takes your choices away.

You love him as a falcon loves his master who binds and blinds it.

There are so many worse things than death. Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse.

I need a bodyguard." Simon eyed him. "Have you been watching The Bodyguard? Because I am not going to fall in love with you and carry you around in my burly arms.

It is better than going on loving someone who cannot love me back. Better wasting all that feelings" -Tessa gray

Clary?" Jace tilted his head to the side, studying her face. "You do—you still love me, don't you?" "I love Jace Lightwood," she said. "I don't know who you are.

Love did not overcome everything. Love did not always endure. All you had could be taken away, love could be the last thing you had, and then love could be taken too.

In my own work, I don't have favorite characters, but I have characters that I relate to the most. And I relate the most to Simon from 'The Mortal Instruments,' and also Tessa from 'The Infernal Devices.' They're more sort of bookish and shy characters.

For five years it had been his absolute truth. Jem and Will. Will and Jem. Will Herondale lives, therefore Jem Carstairs lives also.

The truth is that I love Simon like I should love you, and I wish that he was my brother and you weren't." - Clary

You can only push the truth down for so long, and then it bubbles back up.

Not everything that's true needs to be said.

It's always better to live the truth than to live a lie.

There is no one religion, no one truth and no myth lacks meaning

To lose an arm or a leg would be painful, but to lose the central truth of your life felt—fatal.