Quotes by Cassandra Clare

Church was doing what he often did when dropped - lying on his back with all four legs in the air, pretending to be dead in order to induce guilt in his owners.

What? Jace was still staring at her as if shed told him shed found one of the Silent Brothers doing nude cartwheels in the hallway.

Why are we bringing him along, again? Will inquired, of the world in general as well as his sister.Cecily put her hands on her hips. Why are you bringing Tessa?Because Tessa and I are going to be married, Will said, and Tessa smiled; the way that Wills little sister could ruffle his feathers like no one else was still amusing to her.Well, Gabriel and I might well be married, Cecily said. Someday.Gabriel made a choking noise, and turned an alarming shade of purple. Will threw up his hands. You cant be married Cecily! Youre only fifteen! When I get married, Ill be eighteen! An adult!Cecily did not look impressed. We may have a long engagement, she said. But I cannot see why you are counseling me to marry a man my parents have never met.Will sputtered. I am not counseling you to marry a man your parents have never met!Then we are in agreement. Gabriel must meet Mam and Dad.

My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health.-JaceJust break the door down, will you?-Clary

Isabelle says the Queen of the Seelie Court has requested an audience with isSure said Magnus. And Madonna wants me as a backup dancer on her next world tour

I can see why you like it here, he said,making a sweeping gesture that encompassed Kyles collection of movie posters and science fiction books. Theres a thin layer of nerd all over everything. said Jace.Thanks. I appreciate that. Simon gave Jace a hard look.

No. Absolutely not.Simon, she said. It’s a perfectly fine plan.The plan where you follow Jace and Sebastian off to some unknown dimensional pocket and we use these rings to communicate so those of us over here in the regular dimension of Earth can track you down? That plan?Yes.No, he said. No, it isn’t.Clary sat back. You don’t just get to say no.This plan involves me! I get to say no! No.Simon—Simon patted the seat beside him as if someone were sitting there. Let me introduce you to my good friend No.

Is there a particular reason you keep biting vampires?Will touched the dried blood on his wrists, and smiled. They dont expect it.Of course they dont. They know what happens when one of us consumes vampire blood. They probablyexpect you to have more sense.That expectation never seems to serve them very well, does it?

Men may be stronger, but it is women who endure.

Something inside Clary cracked and broke, and words came pouring out. What do you want me to tell you? The truth? The truth is that I love Simon like I should love you, and I wish he was my brother and you werent, but I cant do anything about that and neither can you!

If you never tell anyone the truth about yourself, eventually you start to forget. The love, the heartbreak, the joy, the despair, the things I did that were good, the things I did that were shameful--if I kept them all inside, my memories of them would start to disappear. And then I would disappear.

When no one you know tells the truth, you learn to see under the surface.

It was odd, (Tessa thought), what brought out tenderness in people.

Look, its easy to outsmart a werewolf or a vampire, Jace said. Theyre no smarter than anyone else. But faeries live for hundreds of years and theyre as cunning as snakes. They cant lie, but they love to engage in creative truth-telling. Theyll find out whatever it is you want most in the world and give it to you—with a sting in the tail of the gift that will make you regret you ever wanted it in the first place. He sighed. Theyre not really about helping people. More about harm disguised as help.

To make a true choice, we must have true knowledge.

It was hard to live normally when you were constantly pretending you didnt see what was going on in front of your face.

The best lies are based on thetruth, at least in part

Let me put it this way, my father believed in a righteous God. Deus volt, that was his motto- because God wills it. It was the Crusaders motto, and they went into battle and were slaughtered just like my father. And when I saw him lying dead in a pool of his own blood, I knew then that I hadnt stopped believing in God. Id just stopped believing God cared. There might be a God, Clary, and there might not, but I dont think it matters. Either way were on our own.

Your angel cannot protect you against that which neither god nor the devil had made

All knowledge hurts.