Top 500 Cassandra Clare Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Cassandra Clare

Featured in: Life Quotes, Quotes About Books And Reading, Deep Quotes About Life, Fiction Quotes, Storytelling Quotes

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

— Cassandra Clare

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3. “Pulvis et umbra sumus.”

— Cassandra Clare

4. “All the stories are true.”

— Cassandra Clare

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5. “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.”

— Cassandra Clare

Featured in: Emotion Quotes, Love You Quotes, Quotes About Feelings, Romance Quotes

6. “Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.”

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Cassandra Clare

8. “You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.”

— Cassandra Clare

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9. “To love is to destroy. To be loved is to be the destroyed.”

— Cassandra Clare

Featured in: Depressing Quotes, Love Hurts Quotes

10. “Your life is yours to live as you choose.”

— Cassandra Clare

11. “I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there’s a life after that, I’ll love you then.”

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Cassandra Clare

Featured in: Broken Heart Quotes, Love Hurts Quotes

13. “As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?”

— Cassandra Clare

Featured in: Silly Quotes, Funny Quotes About Life, Funny Monday Quotes, Coffee Quotes

14. “Love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything.”

— Cassandra Clare

15. “Amor verus numquam moritur: True love never dies.”

— Cassandra Clare

Featured in: Romantic Quotes, True Love Quotes, Happy Valentine's Day Quotes, I Love You Quotes for Her

16. “As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.”

— Cassandra Clare

Featured in: Loss Quotes, Love Is Quotes, Missing Someone Quotes

17. “Books will always be there for you.”

— Cassandra Clare

18. “L’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle.”

— Cassandra Clare

19. “Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.”

— Cassandra Clare

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20. “Black for hunting through the night For death and sorrow, the color’s white Gold for a bride in her wedding gown, And red to call enchantment down.”

— Cassandra Clare

21. “I’ve never seen anyone get so excited over books before. You’d think they were diamonds.”

— Cassandra Clare

22. “In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn’t matter how hard it was to make it. It matters that you did.”

— Cassandra Clare

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23. “He’d burn the whole world down til he could dig out you of the ashes.”

— Cassandra Clare

24. “Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of our Enemies Since 1234.”

— Cassandra Clare

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25. “Heroes aren’t always the ones who win. They’re the ones who lose, sometimes. But they keep fighting, they keep coming back. They don’t give up. That’s what makes them heroes.”

— Cassandra Clare

Featured in: Life is Hard Quotes

26. “Temper us in fire, and we grow stronger. When we suffer, we survive.”

— Cassandra Clare

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27. “Knowing is better than not knowing. Every time.”

— Cassandra Clare

28. “For love is as strong as death.”

— Cassandra Clare

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29. “Choosing love or war: both are brave choices, in their own ways.”

— Cassandra Clare

30. “Regret is such a pointless emotion, don’t you agree?”

— Cassandra Clare

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31. “What’s the point in wasting a perfectly good brick wall when you have someone to throw against it, that’s what I always say.”

— Cassandra Clare

32. “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, and then throw it in the face of the person who gave you the lemons until they give you the oranges you originally asked for.”

— Cassandra Clare

33. “If you have a soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. Whatever the color, the shape, the design of the shade that conceals it, the flame inside the lamp remains the same. You are that flame.”

— Cassandra Clare

34. “You cannot hide your true self forever.”

— Cassandra Clare

35. “I am a demon hunter. Clearly, I am not afraid of the dark.”

— Cassandra Clare

36. “As long as I can dream, I will dream of you.”

— Cassandra Clare

37. “Without conflict there is no plot, without hope there is no story.”

— Cassandra Clare

Featured in: Quotes About Stories

38. “Will smiled the way Lucifer might have smiled, moments before he fell from Heaven.”

— Cassandra Clare

39. “There are so many worse things than death. Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse.”

— Cassandra Clare

40. “Atque in pepetuum, frater, ave atque vale. Forever and ever, my brother, hail and farewell.”

— Cassandra Clare

41. “Love makes liars of us all.”

— Cassandra Clare

42. “Some Laws were meant to be broken.”

— Cassandra Clare

43. “Freely we serve Because we freely love, as in our will To love or not; in this we stand or fall.”

— Cassandra Clare

44. “Because the world isn’t divided into the special and the ordinary. Everyone has the potential to be extra ordinary.”

— Cassandra Clare

45. “The wishes of our hearts are weapons that can be used against us.”

— Cassandra Clare

46. “Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.”

— Cassandra Clare

47. “We live and breathe words.”

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Cassandra Clare

49. “Words have the power to change us.”

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Cassandra Clare