Top 500 Cassandra Clare Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “As if we’d have sex in a cave surrounded by hordes of demons. This is reality, not your fevered imagination.”

— Cassandra Clare

452. “Shadowhunters are slow to love but once we love, we love forever.”

— Cassandra Clare

453. “He could smell her morality, the sweet rot of corruption.”

— Cassandra Clare

454. “You never thought for a second about it diminishing you to have a girl as your warrior partner, you never acted as if I was anything less than your complete equal. You never for a moment made me feel like I had to be weak for you to be strong.”

— Cassandra Clare

455. “Everyone gets the time they get together, and no more. Maybe we’re not so different that way.”

— Cassandra Clare

456. “Have you ever felt that your heart contained so much that it must surely break apart.”

— Cassandra Clare

457. “Inanimate objects are harmless indeed, Mr. Mortmain. But one cannot always say the same of the men who use them.”

— Cassandra Clare

458. “To be friends is a beautiful thing, Tessa, and I do not scorn it, but I have hoped for a long time now that we might be more than friends.”

— Cassandra Clare

459. “Maybe that was why she couldn’t cry, she realized, staring dry-eyed at the ceiling. Because what was the point in crying when there was no one there to comfort you? And what was worse, when you couldn’t even comfort yourself?”

— Cassandra Clare

460. “Do you often sleep tied to the bed?”

— Cassandra Clare

461. “Must I go bound while you go free Must I love a manwho doesn’t love me Must I be born with so little art As to love a man who’ll break my Heart.”

— Cassandra Clare

462. “He found himself wanting to write poetry about how her blue eyes were like starlight and her hair like night, because “night” and “starlight” rhymed, but he had a feeling the poem wouldn’t turn out that well...”

— Cassandra Clare

463. “Jace suggested that the cast of “Gilligan’s Island” could go do something anatomically unlikely with themselves.”

— Cassandra Clare

464. “Can I touch your mango?”

— Cassandra Clare

465. “They had met at a club fifteen years before, Etta and Magnus. He had convinced her to dance with him, and she said she had been in love by the end of the song. He told her he had been in love before the beginning.”

— Cassandra Clare

466. “Dear Alec and Magnus, I known we’re not really close, but Isabelle just came by to drop off a pleated orange velvet tux that she claims I will be wearing to your wedding. Is this true, and if so, why orange? -Simon.”

— Cassandra Clare

467. “I told you to bring me to Alec! Backstabbing Judas.”

— Cassandra Clare

468. “If I kiss you all day every day for the rest of my life, it won’t be enough.”

— Cassandra Clare

469. “I am not a charity case, and I am not a Shadowhunter any longer. I want nothing more to do with the Shadowhunters. I want to be someone else. I want to raise my daughter to be someone else, not bound to the Clave or led astray by anybody. I want her to be braver than I was, stronger than I was, and to let nobody decide her fate but herself.”

— Cassandra Clare

470. “He was Will, in all his perfect imperfection; Will, whose heart was as easy to break as it was carefully guarded; Will, who loved not wisely but entirely and with everything he had.”

— Cassandra Clare

471. “You have a dark heart in you, Valentine’s daughter.”

— Cassandra Clare

472. “I only count the hours that shine.”

— Cassandra Clare

473. “Break a leg up there, and I’ll be down here hopefully breaking someone elses.”

— Cassandra Clare

474. “Never doubt my weaseling abilities, Shadowhunter, for they are epic and memorable in their scope.”

— Cassandra Clare

475. “Caliph Vathek and his dark horde Are bound for Hell, you won’t be bored! Your faith in me will be restored – Unless this token you find untoward And my poor gift you have ignored.”

— Cassandra Clare

476. “Maybe you should call him,? Simon suggested, trying not to think too hard about how weird it was to be giving a demon hunter advice about possibly dating a warlock.”

— Cassandra Clare

477. “Demon Pox, oh, Demon Pox Just how is it acquired? One must first go to the bad part of town Until one is very tired Demon Pox, oh, Demon Pox I had it all along- No, not the pox, you foolish blocks I meant this very song- For i was right, and you were wrong!”

— Cassandra Clare

478. “Go in peace, James Carstairs.”

— Cassandra Clare

479. “I get the feeling you’d rather pine over someone you can never possibly be with than try being with someone you can.”

— Cassandra Clare

480. “Words were weapons, his father had taught him that, and he’d wanted to hurt Clary more than he’d ever wanted to hurt any girl. In fact, he wasn’t sure he had ever wanted to hurt a girl before. Usually he just wanted them, and then he wanted them to leave him alone.”

— Cassandra Clare

481. “But it doesn’t change what we are to each other. It’s like there’s always been a piece of my soul missing, and it’s inside you, Clary. I know I told you once that wheter God exists or not, we’re on our own. But when I’m with you, I’m not.”

— Cassandra Clare

482. “I’m from New Jersey. I was born in toxic sludge.”

— Cassandra Clare

483. “Life was an uncertain thing, and there were some moments one wished to remember, to imprint upon one’s mind that the memory might be taken out later, like a flower pressed between the pages of a book, and admired and recollected anew. – Sophie and Gideon Lightwood.”

— Cassandra Clare

484. “Nerd love. It’s a beautiful thing, while also being an object of mockery and hilarity for those of us who are more sophisticated.”

— Cassandra Clare

485. “Eternity is a long time to spend alone, without others of your kind.”

— Cassandra Clare

486. “Someday, Will, I will go where none can follow me, and I think it will be sooner rather than later. Have you ever asked yourself why I agreed to be your parabatai?”

— Cassandra Clare

487. “Jem is nothing but goodness. That he struck you last night only shows how capable you are of driving even saints to madness.”

— Cassandra Clare

488. “Memories did one no good, not when one knew the truth in the present. Will was beautiful, but he was not hers; he was anybody’s. Something in him was broken, and trough that break spilled a blind cruelty, a need to hurt and to push away.”

— Cassandra Clare

489. “Only Jace, Clary thought, could look cool in pajama bottoms and an old T-shirt, but he pulled it off, probably through sheer force of will. -pg. 329-.”

— Cassandra Clare

490. “The witchlight made his skin paler, his eyes more intently blue. They were the color of the water in the North Atlantic, where the ice drifted on its blue-black surface like the snow clinging to the dark glass pane of a window.”

— Cassandra Clare

491. “Clary stopped dead in her tracks. “Simon?” “Oh, God,” said Jace, sounding resigned. “And here I’d actually hoped I’d got hold of something interesting.” -Clary and Jace pg. 114.”

— Cassandra Clare

492. “I wonder sometimes if it is easier to be brave when one is young, before one knows truly how much there is to lose.”

— Cassandra Clare

493. “I am drawn to writing books about magic and the supernatural because those are the types of books I like to read. I’ve written many short stories with realistic settings, and I certainly wouldn’t rule out realistic novels in the future!”

— Cassandra Clare

494. “It was hard to live normally when you were constantly pretending you didn’t see what was going on in front of your face.”

— Cassandra Clare

495. “The whale without Ahab is just a whale. A whale with no problems. A stress-free whale.” – Julian Blackthorn.”

— Cassandra Clare

496. “We are bound together, Emma, bound together – I breathe when you breathe, I bleed when you bleed, I’m yours and you’re mine, you’ve always been mine, and I have always, always belonged to you!”

— Cassandra Clare

497. “The stars will go out before I forget you, Mark Blackthorn.”

— Cassandra Clare

498. “To love is to destroy, to destroy is to love. -Jace Herondale.”

— Cassandra Clare

499. “Despite everything, I can’t bear the thought of this ring being lost forever, any more than I can bear the thought of leaving you forever. And though I have no choice about the one, at least I can choose about the other.”

— Cassandra Clare

500. “I’m not unsympathetic. But do you like me? Because this being gay business doesn’t mean you can just throw yourself at any guy and it’ll be fine because he’s not a girl. There are still people you like and people you don’t.”

— Cassandra Clare