Quotes by Cassandra Clare

And now I’m looking at you,” he said, “and you’re asking me if I still want you, as if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has. I never dared give much of myself to anyone before – bits of myself to the Lightwoods, to Isabelle and Alec, but it took years to do it – but, Clary, since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me.

You could have had anything else in the world, and you asked for me.She smiled up at him. Filthy as he was, covered in blood and dirt, he was the most beautiful thing shed ever seen.But I dont want anything else in the world.

Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.

Whats this? he demanded, looking from Clary to his companions, as if they might know what she was doing there.Its a girl, Jace said,recovering his composure. Surely youve seen girls before, Alec. Your sister Isabelle is one.

I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you.

You could have fooled me. Everytime I called you, Luke said you were sick. I figured you were avoiding me. Again.I wasnt. I did want to talk to you. Ive been thinking about you all the time.Ive been thinking about you, too.I really was sick. I swear. I almost died back there on the ship, you know.I know. Everytime you almost die, I almost die myself.

And next time youre planning to injure yourself to get me attention, just remember that a little sweet talk works wonders.

Of course you can have a true Shadowhunter name, Will said. You can have mine.Tessa stared at him, all black and white against the black-and-white snow and stone. Your name?Will took a step toward her, till they stood face-to-face. Then he reached to take her hand and slid off her glove, which he put into his pocket. He held her bare hand in his, his fingers curved around hers. His hand was warm and callused, and his touch made her shiver. His eyes were steady and blue; they were everything that Will was: true and tender, sharp and witty, loving and kind. Marry me, he said. Marry me, Tess. Marry me and be called Tessa Herondale. Or be Tessa Gray, or be whatever you wish to call yourself, but marry me and stay with me and never leave me, for I cannot bear another day of my life to go by that does not have you in it.

Hearts are breakable, Isabelle said. And I think even when you heal, youre never what you were before.

He made a sound like a choked laughed before he reached out and pulled her into her arms. She was aware of Luke watching them from the window, but she shut her eyes resolutely and buried her face against Jaces shoulder. He smelled of salt and blood, and only when his mouth came close to her ear did she understand what he was saying, and it was the simplest litany of all: her name, just her name.

If theres a thing Ive learned in my life its to not be afraid of the responsibility that comes with caring for other people. What we do for love: those things endure. Even if the people you do them for dont

We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.

Now very much against her will, she thought of the way Jace had looked at her then, the blaze of faith in his eyes, his belief in her. He had always thought she was strong. He had showed it in everything he did, in every look and every touch. Simon had faith in her too, yet when hed held her, it had been as if she were something fragile, something made of delicate glass. But Jace had held her with all the strength he had, never wondering if she could take it--hed known she was as strong has he was.

There is no pretending,Jace said with absolute clarity.I love you,and I will love you until I die,and if theres a life after that,Ill love you then.She caught her breath.He had said it-the words there was no going back from.

to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.

There are memories that time does not erase... Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.

Ive never minded it, he went on. Being lost, that is. I had always thought one could not truly be lost if one knew ones own heart. But I fear I may be lost without knowing yours.

Of course he loves me. I’m his sister.”“Blood isn’t love,” said Magnus, and his voice was bitter.

When you love someone, you dont have a choice. Love takes your choices away.- Clary Fray

Looking at him now-even if she hadnt been in love with him, that part of her that was her mothers daugher, that loved every beautiful thing for its beauty alone, would still have wanted him.