Cassandra Clare Quotes & Sayings

“Malachi scowled. "I don't remember the Clave inviting you into the Glass City, Magnus Bane."”

“Investigation? Isabelle laughed. Now we're detectives? Maybe we should all have code names.”

“There's plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it.”

“Not everything is about you.”

“You guessed? You must have been pretty sure, considering you could have killed me.”

“Well, I'm not kissing the mundane. I'd rather stay down here and rot.”

“Is this the part where you say, "If I hurt her, you'll kill me?"”

“Don't touch any of my weapons without my permission.”

“Don't. I'm not really in the mood right now.”

“You know, there was a time I thought we could be friends, Will.”

“It means "Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of Our Enemies Since 1234."”

“If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?”

“"Ah," said a voice from the doorway, "having your annual 'everyone thinks Will is a lunatic' meeting, are you?"”

“Everything changes in my life, and the world stays the same.”

“"I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead." "Well," said Luke, "you're doing a fantastic job."”

“People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but it's the way you live your life that matters.”

“It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.”

“We live and breathe words. It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how you were lonely sometimes and afraid, but always brave; the way you saw the world, its colors and textures and sounds, I felt, I felt the way you thought, hoped, felt, dreamt. I felt I was dreaming and thinking and feeling with you. I dreamed what you dreamed, wanted what you wanted, and then I realized that truly I just wanted you.”

“"Jesus!" Luke exclaimed.”

“Mom. I have something to tell you. I'm undead. Now, I know you may have some preconceived notions about the undead. I know you may not be comfortable with the idea of me being undead. But I'm here to tell you that undead are just like you and me... well, okay. Possibly more like me than you.”

“Is this the part where you start tearing off strips of your shirt to bind my wounds?”

“Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.”

“Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”

“We came to see Jace. Is he alright?”