Quotes by Cassandra Clare

You had to know a person well to make them laugh like that.

But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it.

And now, Eric yelled into his mircophone, were going to sing a new song-one we just wrote. This ones for my girlfriend. Weve been going out for three weeks, and, damn, our love is true. Were gonna be together forever, baby. This ones called Bang You Like a Drum.

His hands lay flat on either side of him, his arms at his sides. He seemed barely to be breathing; she wasnt sure she was breathing herself. She slid her own hand across the bedsheet, just far enough that their fingers touched-so lightly that she would have probably hardly been aware of it had she been touching anyone but Jace; as it was, the nerve endings in her fingertips pricked softly, as if she were holding them over a low flame. She felt him tense beside her and then relax. He had shut his eyes, and his lashes cast fine shadows against the curve of his cheekbones. His mouth curled into a smile as if he sensed her watching him, and she wondered how he would look in the morning, with his hair messed and sleep circles under his eyes. Despite everything, the thought gave her a jolt of happiness.She laced her fingers through his. Good night, she whispered. With their hands clasped like children in a fairy tale, she fell asleep beside him in the dark.

She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all?

Every time I think Im missing a piece of me, you give it back.

There was beauty in the idea of freedom, but it was an illusion. Every human heart was chained by love.

I think everything that happened in Idris-Valentine, Max, Hodge, even Sebastian-I kept shoving it all down, trying to forget, but its catching up with me. I... Ill get help. Ill get better. I promise. You promise.I swear on the Angel. He ducked his head down, kissed her cheek.The hell with that. I swear on us.

Jace looked as if she had slapped him. Why are you determined not to believe us?Because she loves you, said Valentine.Clary felt the blood drain out of her face.

I thought perhaps that when you told me you did not love me that my own feelings would fall away and atrophy, but they have not. They have grown every day. I love you now more desperately, this moment, than I have ever loved you before, and in an hour I will love you more than that

Herondales. Zachariahs voice was a breath, half laughter, half pain. I had almost forgotten. No other family does so much for love, or feels so much guilt for it. Dont carry the weight of the world on you, Jace. Its too heavy for even a Herondale to bear.

When you love someone, they become a part of who you are. Theyre in everything you do. Theyre in the air you breathe and the water you drink and the blood in your veins. Their touch stays on your skin and their voice stays in your ears and their thoughts stay in your mind. You know their dreams because their nightmares pierce your heart and their good dreams are your dreams too. And you dont think theyre perfect, but you know their flaws, the deep-down truth of them, and the shadows of all their secrets, and they dont frighten you away; in fact you love them more for it, because you dont want perfect. You want them. You want—He broke off then, as if realizing everyone was looking at him again.You want what? said Dru with enormous eyes.Nothing, Julian said. Im just talking.

Must I go bound while you go freeMust I love a manwho doesnt love meMust I be born with so little artAs to love a man wholl break my Heart

Love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything.

My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health.

I was trying to make you jealous! Simon screamed, right back. His hands were fisted at his sides. Youre so stupid, Clary. Youre so stupid, cant you see anything?She stared at him in bewilderment. What on earth did he mean? Trying to make me jealous? Why would you try to do that?She saw immediately that this was the worst thing she could have asked him.Because, he said, so bitterly that it shocked her, Ive been in love with you for ten years, so I thought it seemed like the time to find out whether you felt the same about me. Which, I guess you dont.

These pictures are my heart. And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you.

Not enough, he said, letting her hair slip through his fingers. If I kiss you all day, everyday, for the rest of my life, it wont be enough.

Everything that happens to you matters to me.

Love didnt make you weak, it made you stronger.