Top 500 Cassandra Clare Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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

52. “Vampires, fey folk, werewolves, Shadowhunters, and demons – these things made sense to Magnus. But the mundane world – it seemed to have no pattern, no form. Their quicksilver politics. Their short lives...”

— Cassandra Clare

53. “He wanted to make her laugh. He wanted to sit and listen to her talk about books until his ears fell off. But all these were things he could not want, because they were things he could not have, and wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness.”

— Cassandra Clare

54. “James Carstairs! Jem! Where are you, you disloyal bastard?”

— Cassandra Clare

55. “Sharp are the arrows of a broken heart.”

— Cassandra Clare

56. “I belong to you. You could do anything you wanted with me and I would let you. You could ask anything of me and I’d break myself trying to make you happy. My heart tells me this is the best and greatest feeling I have ever had.”

— Cassandra Clare

57. “And I would do it again. I love you, Jace Wayland-Herondale-Lightwood-whatever you want to call yourself. I don’t care. I love you and I will always love you, and pretending it could be any other ways is just a waste of time.”

— Cassandra Clare

58. “With hope at last.”

— Cassandra Clare

59. “Some people value sentiments over diamonds.”

— Cassandra Clare

60. “It’s the mortal cup Jace, not the mortal toilet bowl.”

— Cassandra Clare

61. “I don’t want the world. I want you.”

— Cassandra Clare

62. “I am, in the end, what you made me.”

— Cassandra Clare

63. “Family isn’t blood. It’s the people who love you. The people who have your back.”

— Cassandra Clare

64. “You may have the worst timing since Napoleon decided the dead of winter was the right moment to invade Russia.”

— Cassandra Clare

65. “Waiting for a special occasion to kill me? Christmas is coming.”

— Cassandra Clare

66. “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.”

— Cassandra Clare

67. “When somebody tells you there’s something wrong with your book they’re almost always right, when they tell you how to fix it they’re almost always wrong.”

— Cassandra Clare

68. “It’s like banging my head against the wall, except if I were actually banging my head on a wall, I’d be able to make myself stop.”

— Cassandra Clare

69. “Yes, she’s bleeding to death upstairs, but I thought I’d avoid telling you right away, because I like to draw the suspense out.”

— Cassandra Clare

70. “Facilis descensus Averno Noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis Sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras Hoc opus labor est.”

— Cassandra Clare

71. “It’s always better to live the truth than to live a lie.”

— Cassandra Clare

72. “I prefer the school of life.”

— Cassandra Clare

73. “If you were half as funny as you think you are, you’d be twice as funny as you are now.”

— Cassandra Clare

74. “The more you try to crush your true nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop.”

— Cassandra Clare

75. “I thought perhaps that when you told me you did not love me that my own feelings would fall away and atrophy, but they have not. They have grown every day. I love you now more desperately, this moment, than I have ever loved you before, and in an hour I will love you more than that.”

— Cassandra Clare

76. “As far as I’m concerned, this is the worst thing that’s happened since I found out why Magnus was banned from Peru.”

— Cassandra Clare

77. “Shutting your eyes and pretending something’s not happening doesn’t make it not true, Jace.”

— Cassandra Clare

78. “When you love someone, you don’t have a choice. Love takes your choices away. – Clary Fray.”

— Cassandra Clare

79. “Do not seek revenge and call it justice.”

— Cassandra Clare

80. “The world is a wheel. When we rise or fall, we do it together.”

— Cassandra Clare

81. “You can only push the truth down for so long, and then it bubbles back up.”

— Cassandra Clare

82. “I don’t know how to live in the world as a Shadowhunter without Will. I don’t think i even want to. I am still a parabatai, but my other half is gone.”

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Cassandra Clare

84. “Maybe Alexander Lightwood would not break his heart.”

— Cassandra Clare

85. “Your boyfriend’s dead. Thought you should know.”

— Cassandra Clare

86. “In all the world, you are what I love the most.”

— Cassandra Clare

87. “Where there is love, there is often also hate. They can exist side by side.”

— Cassandra Clare

88. “Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo.” “If I cannot move Heaven, I will raise Hell.”

— Cassandra Clare

89. “I think I’m better than everyone else. An opinion that has been backed up with ample evidence.”

— Cassandra Clare

90. “Doing the right thing because you love someone sucks sometimes.”

— Cassandra Clare

91. “Every choice has a long afterlife of consequences. No one can know the eventual outcome of any decision. All you can do is make the best choice you can make in the moment.”

— Cassandra Clare

92. “It’s fascinating. You know all these words, and they’re all English, but when you string them together into sentences, they just don’t make any sense.”

— Cassandra Clare

93. “If you really love something, you never try to keep it the way it is forever. You have to let it be free to change.”

— Cassandra Clare

94. “Freely we serve, because we freely love.”

— Cassandra Clare

95. “Everyone has choices to make; no one has the right to take those choices away from us. Not even out of love.”

— Cassandra Clare

96. “Crying wouldn’t help anything now.”

— Cassandra Clare

97. “Pain made you strong. Loss made you powerful.”

— Cassandra Clare

98. “I love you. And I don’t want to lose you.”

— Cassandra Clare

99. “What I do know is that if we are born again, I will meet you in another life, and if there is a river, you will wait on the shores for me to come to you, so that we can cross together.”

— Cassandra Clare

100. “He said there are thousands of Shadowhunters, but great love comes once in a lifetime if one is lucky, and one would be a fool to let it go.”

— Cassandra Clare