Cassandra Clare Quotes & Sayings

“And now I'm looking at you, and you're asking me if I still want you, as if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has. I never dared give much of myself to anyone before (bits of myself to the Lightwoods, to Isabelle and Alec, but it took years), but Clary, since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me.”

“One of the Silent Brothers is here to see you. Hodge sent me to wake you up. Actually he offered to wake you himself, but since it's 5 a.m., I figured you'd be less cranky if you had something nice to look at.”

“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”

“You could have had anything else in the world, and you asked for me.”

“"Don't order any of the faerie food," said Jace, looking at her over the top of his menu. "It tends to make humans a little crazy. One minute you're munching a faerie plum, the next minute you're running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not," he added hastily, "that this has ever happened to me."”

“And I'm supposed to sit by while you date boys and fall in love with someone else, get married? And meanwhile, I'll die a little bit more every day, watching.”

“You said you were going for a walk! What kind of walk takes six hours?”

“The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he had learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”

“It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.”

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

“Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.”

“"I am a man," he told her, "and men do not consume pink beverages. Get thee gone, woman, and bring me something brown."”

“I've got a stele we can use. Who wants to do me?”

“I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass.”

“Remember when you tried to convince me to feed a poultry pie to the mallards in the park to see if you could breed a race of cannibal ducks?”

“One must always be careful of books and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”

“There is no pretending. I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.”

“"Do you remember back at the hotel when you promised that if we lived, you'd get dressed up in a nurse's outfit and give me a sponge bath?" asked Jace. "It was Simon who promised you the sponge bath." "As soon as I'm back on my feet, handsome," said Simon. "I knew we should have left you a rat."”

“Just because you call an electric eel a rubber duck doesn't make it a rubber duck, does it? And God help the poor bastard who decides they want to take a bath with the duckie.”

“Can I help you with something?”

“That does it. I'm going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year.”

“Do not let those who cannot see the truth tell you who you are. You are the flame that cannot be put out. You are the star that cannot be lost. You are who you have always been, and that is enough and more than enough. Anyone who looks at you and sees darkness is blind.”

“Have you fallen in love with the wrong person yet?”

“"What's this?" he demanded, looking from Clary to his companions, as if they might know what she was doing there. "It's a girl," Jace said, recovering his composure. "Surely you've seen girls before, Alec. Your sister Isabelle is one."”