50 Cassandra Clare Quotes You Should Read Before You Die

1. “We came to see Jace. Is he alright”? “I don’t know,” Magnus said. “Does he normally just lie on the floor like that without moving?”-Cassandra Clare

2. “Don’t touch any of my weapons without my permission.” “Well, there goes my plan for selling them all on eBay,” Clary muttered.”Selling them on what?”Clary smiled blandly at him. “A mythical place of great magical power.”-Cassandra Clare

3. “The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he’d learned: that to love is to and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”-Cassandra Clare

4. “Well, I’m not kissing the mundane,” said Jace. “I’d rather stay down here and rot.”Forever?” said Simon. “Forever’s an awfully long time.”Jace raised his eyebrows. “I knew it,” he said. “You want to kiss me, don’t you?”-Cassandra Clare

5. “Not everything is about you,” Clary said furiously.”Possibly,” Jace said, “but you do have to admit that the majority of things are.”-Cassandra Clare

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

7. “Is this the part where you say if I hurt her, you’ll kill me?” “No” Simon said, “If you hurt Clary she’s quite capable of killing you herself. Possibly with a variety of weapons.”-Cassandra Clare

8. “You said you were going for a walk!? What kind of walk takes six hours?” “A long one?”-Cassandra Clare

9. “Will looked horrified. “What kind of monster could possibly hate chocolate?”-Cassandra Clare

10. “I’ve got a stele we can use. Who wants to do me?””A regrettable choice of words,” muttered Magnus.”-Cassandra Clare

11. “Can I help you with something?”Clary turned instant traitor against her gender. “Those girls on the other side of the car are staring at you.”Jace assumed an air of mellow gratification. “Of course they are,” he said, “I am stunningly attractive.”-Cassandra Clare

12. “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. (Jace Wayland)”-Cassandra Clare

13. “Usually I’m remarkably good-natured. Try me on a day that doesn’t end in y.”-Cassandra Clare

14. “No, I’m just a very naughty boy. I do all sorts of bad things. I kick kittens. I make rude gestures at nuns.”-Cassandra Clare

15. “There’s plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it.”-Cassandra Clare

16.“The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me.”-Cassandra Clare

17. “Where there is love, there is often also hate. They can exist side by side.”-Cassandra Clare

18. “It’s not gray,” Clary felt compelled to point out. “It’s green.”If there was such a thing as terminal literalism, you’d have died in childhood,” said Jace.”-Cassandra Clare

19. “Did you ever think that in a past life Alec was an old woman with ninety cats who was always yelling at the neighborhood kids to get off her lawn? Because I do,”-Cassandra Clare

20. “You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.”
-Cassandra Clare

21. “Jace shook his blond head in exasperation.”You had to make a crazy jail friend, didn’t you? You couldn’t just count ceiling tiles or tame a pet mouse like normal prisoners do?”-Cassandra Clare

22. “What do you want?”Just coffee. Black – like my soul.”-Cassandra Clare

23. “You’re the first Shadowhunter I’ve ever met.”That’s too bad,” said Jace, “since all the others you meet from now on will be a terrible letdown.”-Cassandra Clare

24. I would have chosen death for a chance to tell you the truth, Tessa, if I could have been assured that death would be my own. And that is why I envied Sydney, for he was free.

25. And now at last I am free, and I can finally tell you, without fear of danger to you, all that I feel in my heart. You are not the last dream of my soul. You are the first dream, the only dream I ever was unable to stop myself from dreaming. You are the first dream of my soul, and from that dream, I hope will come all other dreams, a lifetime’s worth. With hope at least, Will Herondale”-Cassandra Clare

26. “I know it’s wrong – God, it’s all kinds of wrong – but I just want to lie down with you and wake up with you, just once, just once ever in my life.”-Cassandra Clare

27. “Will rolled up his sleeves. “We’ll probably have to knock down the door–“”Or,” said Jem, reaching out and giving the knob a twist, “not.”The door swung open onto a rectangle of darkness.”Now, that’s simply laziness,” said Will.”-Cassandra Clare

28. “Demon pox, oh demon pox just how is it acquired? One must go down to the bad part of town Until one is very tired. Demon pox, oh demon pox, I had it all along—Not the pox, you foolish blocks, I mean this very song—For I was right, and you were wrong!”

29. “You know, some people think Shadowhunters are just myths. Like mummies and genies.” Kyle grinned at Jace. “Can you grant wishes?”

30. “That depends,” he said. “Do you wish to be punched in the face?”-Cassandra Clare

31. “There’s no need to clarify my finger snap,” said Magnus. “The implication was clear in the snap itself.”-Cassandra Clare“So you’re a Shadowhunter,’ Nate said. ‘De Quincey told me that you lot were monsters.”Was that before or after he tried to eat you?’ Will inquired.”-Cassandra Clare

32. “Is there some particular reason that you’re here?” …”Not this again.””Not what again?” said Clary.”Every time I annoy him, he retreats into his No Mundanes Allowed tree house.” Simon pointed at Jace.”-Cassandra Clare

33. “I forgot that’s what gets you all hot and bothered, Jace, girls killing things.” “I like anyone killing things, especially me.” he said with a smile.”-Cassandra Clare

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

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

36. Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all. -Cassandra Clare

37. Best lies are based on the truth, at least in part. -Cassandra Clare

38. All knowledge hurts. -Cassandra Clare

39. Reneging on promises made to supernatural creatures was a bad idea. -Cassandra Clare

40. It’s hard to guess what a lunatic will do next. -Cassandra Clare

41. I am a woman. I will use any weapon and all weapons to get what I want. -Cassandra Clare

42. The Law is hard, but it is the Law. -Cassandra Clare

43. Not everything that’s true needs to be said. -Cassandra Clare

44. Just coffee. Black — like my soul. -Cassandra Clare

45. As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be? -Cassandra Clare

46. Surely, she was too young to have so many ghosts. -Cassandra Clare

47. I sometimes wonder, if we can ever quite understand other people. All we can do is try, I suppose. -Cassandra Clare

48. When I can’t bend heaven I will raise hell. – Cassandra Clare

49. Everytime I think I’m missing a piece of me, you give it back. – Cassandra Clare

50. “I don’t know why I ever helped you.” -Cassandra Clare