Quotes by Cassandra Clare

as long as I can still dream, I will dream of you.

This was Jace being brave. Simon thought, brave and snarky because he thought Lilith was going to kill him, and that was the way he wanted to go, unafraid and on his feet. Like a warrior. The way Shadowhunters did. His death song would always be this-jokes and snideness and pretend arrogance, and that look in his eyes that said Im better than you. Simon just hadnt realized it before.

My parents raised me to get things done, no matter what. They don’t care about rules, just appearances. This whole time I’ve been telling myself that I’m going to be different from my parents, different from my sister, be the one who stuck to the straight and narrow. But I think I had it all wrong, Call. I don’t care about rules or appearances. I don’t want to be the person who just gets things done. I want to do the right thing. I don’t care if we have to lie or cheat or cut corners or break rules to do it.

...We die, we turn, we are reborn as we deserve to be reborn, based on our doings in this world. Will looked down at his bitten nails. I will probably be reborn as a slug that someone salts.

Every decision you make, makes you. Never let other people choose who you’re going to be.

there is a fine line between sarcasm and hostility, you seemed to have crossed it. Whats up?

Actually, said Jace, I prefer to think that Im a liar in a way thats uniquely my own.

Christina flashed a smile. I shall ask a million questions of your purply-eyed so that Diana doesnt think about you and Julian or whether you might be at Mr. Rooks.Im not sure hes a mister, Emma said, stifling a yawn. Ive never heard anyone call him anything but hey, Rook or sometimes that bastard.

Shouldnt we stand back to back or something? What? Why? I dont know. In movies thats what they do in this kind of… situation.

Jessamine recoiled from the paper as if it were a snake. A lady does not read the newspaper. The society pages, perhaps, or the theater news. Not this filth.But you are not a lady, Jessamine---, Charlotte began.Dear me, said Will. Such harsh truths so early in the morning cannot be good for the digestion.

I see that even as the world plunges into darkness and peril, you two stand around discussing your love lives. Teenagers.

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

Where is your angel now?

Theres nothing wrong with George. It is not possible to find fault with George. Hes a perfect Scottish angel. He always shares the snacks that his mother sends him and hes better- looking than Jace. There, I said it. Im not taking it back.

El hambre agudiza el ingenio,” said Raphael.Hunger sharpens the wit.“Good proverb,” said Magnus. “However, like most proverbs, it sounds wise and yet does not actually clarify anything.

I have come to understand something about novels, Tessa said.And what is that?They are not true.

The posters bore the words WITH THE PASSING YEARS COMES...IMPOTENCE! Magnus found himself staring at the posters with a sort of absent horror. He looked at Alec and found that Alec could not tear his eyes away either. He wondered if Alec was aware that Magnus was three hundred years old and whether Alec was considering exactly how impotent one might become after that much time.

To love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be destroyed

Will looked horrified. What kind of monster could possibly hate chocolate?

The Nephilim - the bogeyman for monsters, and all those who could be monsters.