Quotes by Cassandra Clare

Sed lex dura lex, said Jace automatically. The Law is hard, but it is the Law.

Wither thou goest, I will go; thy people shall by my people; where thou diest, will I die, and there I be buried.

Will: Singing the praises of our fair city? We treat you well here, dont we, James? I doubt Id have that kind of luck in Shanghai. What do you call us there again?Jem: Yang guizi ... foreign devils.

You’ve got a lot of responsibility now,” Jace said to Julian. “You’ll have to make sure Emma winds up with a guy who deserves her.” Julian was strangely white-faced. Maybe he was feeling the effects of the ceremony, Emma thought. It had been strong magic; she still felt it sizzling through her blood like champagne bubbles. But Jules looked as if he’d been slapped.“What about me?” Emma said, quickly. “Don’t I have to make sure Jules winds up with someone who deserves him?”“Absolutely. I did it for Alec, Alec did it for me — well, actually, he hated Clary at first, but he came around.” “I BET you didn’t like Magnus much, either,” said Julian, still with the same odd, stiff look on his face.“Maybe not,” said Jace, “but I never would have said so.”“Because it would have hurt Alec’s feelings?” Emma asked.“No,” said Jace, “because Magnus would have turned me into a hat rack.

I don’t think Will Herondale and a sense of responsibility are even on speaking terms

If you insist on disavowing that which is ugly about what you do, said Magnus, still looking at Alec, you will never learn from your mistakes.

But unlike you, said Jace, there is nothing of hell in us.You are mortal; you age; you die, the Queen said dismissively. If that is not hell, pray tell me, what is?

Drive like hell was following you. - Jace Wayland

And that - he pointed ahead - is the road to Hell. Thats where were going. I have always heard it was paved with good intentions, said Simon

Ive got a stele we can use. Who wants to do me?A regrettable choice of words, muttered Magnus.

Can one regret a thing that, however unwise, was beautiful?

Dont stop there. I suppose there are also, what, vampires and werewolves and zombies?Of course there are. Although you mostly find zombies farther south, where the voudun priests are.What about mummies? Do they only hang around Egypt?Dont be ridiculous. No one believes in mummies.

Clary- How to Come Out to Your Parents, she read out loud. LUKE. Dont be ridiculous. Simons not gay, hes a vampire.

The first morning Simon had been at Amatiss house, a grinning lycanthrope had showed up on the doorstep with a live cat for him. Blood, hed said, in a heavily accented voice. For you. Fresh!Simon had thanked the werewolf, waited from him to leave, and let the cat go, his expression faintly

He wondered if normalcy was something, like vision or silence, you didnt realize was precious until you lost it.

I dont have a reason to lie to you. Not now. Jaces gaze remained steady. And quit baring your fangs at me. Its making me nervous.Good, Simon said. If you want to know why its because you smell like blood.Its my cologne. Eau de Recent Injury. Jace raised his left hand. It was a glove of white bandages, stained across the knucles where blood had seeped through.

[Magnus] held on to the boy, newborn in grave dirt and blood, and he wished that he had found him dead.

And what about us? Do you want a vampire boyfriend? He laughed bitterly. Because I forsee many romantic picnics in our future. You, drinking a virgin piña colada. Me, drinking the blood of a virgin.

Elliott performed a dance called the Dance of the Twenty-Eight Veils in Times Square. It is on YouTube. Many commenters described it as the most boring erotic dance ever performed in the history of the world. I have never been so embarrassed in my unlife. I’m thinking of quitting being leader of the clan and becoming a vampire nun.

Aline! Isabelle looked appalled. You cant just go around asking people what its like to be a vampire.