Quotes by Cassandra Clare

Will is… difficult,” Jem said. “But family is difficult. If I didn’t think the Institute was the best place for you, Tessa, I wouldn’t say it was. And one can build one’s own family. I know you feel inhuman, and as if you were set apart, away from life and love, but…” His voice cracked a little, the first time Tessa had heard him sound unsure. He cleared his throat. “I promise you, the right man won’t care.

What do you think it would have been like if Valentine had brought you up along with me? Would you have loved me?Clary was very glad she had put her cup down, because if she hadnt, she would have dropped it.Sebastian was looking at her not with any shyness or the sort of natural awkwardness that might be attendant on such a bizarre question, but as if she were a curious, foreign life-form.Well, she said. Youre my brother. I would have loved you. I would have...had to.

Family is more than blood

...; Clary saw the group of lycanthropes look up, alert as a group of hunting dogs senting game. She turned- And saw Luke, tired and bloodstained, coming through the double doors of the Hall. She ran toward him. Forgetting how upset shed been when hed left, and forgetting how angry hed been with her for bringing them here, forgetting everything but how glad she was to see him. He looked surprised for a moment as she barreled toward him- then he smiled, and put his arms out, and picked her up as he hugged her, the way hed done when shed been very small. He smelled like blood and flannel and smoke, and for a moment she closed her eyes, thinking of the way Alec had grabbed onto Jace the moment hed seen him in the Hall, because that was what you did with family when youd been worried about them, you grabbed them and held on to them and told them how much theyd pissed you off, and it was okay, becaused no matter how angry you got, they still belonged to you. And what she had said to Valentine was true. Luke was her family.

Tobias loved her more than he’d loved anything—his family, his duty, even himself. There, perhaps, the Herondale blood ran true.

What could you do, when what threatened the ones you loved was something else you loved just as much?

He will choose us, Julian said. We are his family.Kierans eye shone. I wouldntbe so sure, young Shadowhunter. Those of the Hunt are loyal to the Hunt.He isnt of the Hunt, Emma said. He is a Blackthorn.

The more you try to crush your nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop.

She had worn the Morgenstern ring since Jace had left it for her, and sometimes she wondered why. Did she really want to be reminded of Valentine? And yet, at the same time, was it ever right to forget?You couldnt erase everything that caused you pain with its recollection. She didnt want to forget Max or Madeleine, or Hodge, or the Inquisitor, or even Sebastian. Every moment was valuable; even the bad ones.

For the first time, he looked at her, and she wasn’t a stranger, she was Clary—his friend. His family. The girl he’d sworn always to protect. The girl he loved as fiercely as he loved himself.

I don’t know,” Mark said, looking down at his own long pale fingers tangled in the little boy’s brown curls. “He just – Julian left, and Tavvy fell asleep on my lap.”He sounded amazed, wondering.“Of course he did,” Cristina said. “He’s your brother. He trusts you.”“Nobody trusts a Hunter,” Mark said.

Power will always attract the greedy and the weak.

Can I tell you a boring science fact? she whispered. I bet you didnt learn it in Shadowhunter history class.If youre trying to distract me from talking about my feelings, youre not being very subtle about it. He touched her face. You know I make speeches. Its okay. You dont have to make them back. Just tell me you love me,Im not trying to distract you. She held up her hand and wiggles the fingers. There are a hundred trillion cells in the human body, she said. And every single one of the cells of my body loves you. We shed cells, and grow new ones, and my new cells love you more than the old ones, which is why I love you more every day than I did before. Its science. And when I die and they burn my body and I become ashes that mix with the air, and part of the ground and the trees and the stars, everyone who breathes air of sees the flowers that grow out of the ground or looks up at the stars will remember you and love you, because I love you that much, She smiled. How was that for a speech?

I cannot explain love. 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. That you were the center of everything I did and felt and thought.

she...let the blood spill down instead of tears.

Sometimes he wondered if he did these things just to test himself. To see if the feelings had gone. But they had not. When he saw her, he wanted to be with her; when he was with her, he ached to touch her; when he touched even her hand, he wanted to embrace her. He wanted to feel her against him the way he had in the attic. He wanted to know the taste of her skin and the smell of her hair. He wanted to make her laugh. He wanted to sit and listen to her talk about books until his ears fell off. But all these things he could not want, because they were things he could not have, and wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness.

Will stopped glaring at Gabriel, and turned to Tessa. He looked at her and his face softened: the traces of the wild, broken boy he had been vanished, replaced with the expression often worn by the man he was now, who knew what it was to love and be loved. “Dear heart,” he said. He took her hand and kissed it. “Who knows your courage better than I?

The Herondales are a rather infamous line, as you probably know. Many of them heroes, some of them traitors, so many of them brash, wild creatures consumed by their passions, whether it be love or hate.

Its alright to love someone who doesnt love you back, as long as theyre worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.

Will: Ive never seen anyone get so excited over books before. Youd think they were diamonds.Tessa: Well, they are, arent they? Isnt there anything you love like that?