Top 500 Cassandra Clare Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Life is a stage, so exit in style.”

— Cassandra Clare

102. “I love your name. I love the sound of it.”

— Cassandra Clare

103. “I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you.”

— Cassandra Clare

104. “Every time I think I’m missing a piece of me, you give it back.”

— Cassandra Clare

105. “The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me.”

— Cassandra Clare

106. “Still I pictured having you for fifty, sixty more years. I thought I might be ready then to let you go. But it’s you, and I realize now that I won’t be anymore ready to lose you then than I am right now. Which is not at all.”

— Cassandra Clare

107. “A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance covers?”

— Cassandra Clare

108. “Clary’s mother apparently reguarded him as about as sexually threatening as a goldfish.”

— Cassandra Clare

109. “I shall see you on Blackfriars Bridge, Tessa.”

— Cassandra Clare

110. “The measure of love is to love without measure. – attributed to Saint Augustine.”

— Cassandra Clare

111. “We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.”

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Cassandra Clare

113. “I am catastrophically in love with you.”

— Cassandra Clare

114. “Dear Alec, As your best friend and parabatai, I am offended not to have been asked to be your best man at the wedding. Et tu, Brutus. -Jace Alec, he really is upset. He hasn’t washed his hair in three days. -Clary.”

— Cassandra Clare

115. “The Law is hard, but it is the Law.”

— Cassandra Clare

116. “Sometimes, when I have to do something I don’t want to do, I pretend I’m a character from a book. It’s easier to know what they would do.”

— Cassandra Clare

117. “My heart tells me this is the best and greatest feeling I have ever had. But my mind knows the difference between wanting what you can’t have and wanting what you shouldn’t want. And I shouldn’t want you.”

— Cassandra Clare

118. “Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck.- William Herondale.”

— Cassandra Clare

119. “People who know and love the same books as you, have the road map to your soul.”

— Cassandra Clare

120. “And next time you’re planning to injure yourself to get me attention, just remember that a little sweet talk works wonders.”

— Cassandra Clare

121. “I don’t do what I’m told, but I might do what you want if you ask me nicely.”

— Cassandra Clare

122. “Go to faeries for gossip about vampires, to werewolves for gossip about faeries, and do not gossip about werewolves, because they try to bite your face off: that was Magnus’s motto.”

— Cassandra Clare

123. “I hate ducks. Don’t know why. I just always have.”

— Cassandra Clare

124. “The way he looked at you. I got it then. He loved you, and it was killing him. He won’t get over you, Clary, he can’t.”

— Cassandra Clare

125. “There might not be so much of a difference between the side of Light and the side of Dark as you suppose. After all, without the Dark, there is nothing for the light to burn away.”

— Cassandra Clare

126. “You’re a reader as well as a writer, so write what you’d want to read.”

— Cassandra Clare

127. “When the soul has left the body, it belongs to death. And it cannot be taken back without a price.”

— Cassandra Clare

128. “Jace, Clary thought, was the sort of person who liked it when things were happening, even things that were bad.”

— Cassandra Clare

129. “You love him as a falcon loves his master who binds and blinds it.”

— Cassandra Clare

130. “I would die for you. You know that. I would die without you. If it were not for you, I would be dead a hundred times over these past five years.”

— Cassandra Clare

131. “Hope is not an illusion.”

— Cassandra Clare

132. “Every teenager in the world feels like that, feels broken or out of place, different somehow, royalty mistakenly born into a family of peasants. The difference in your case is that it’s true.”

— Cassandra Clare

133. “For five years it had been his absolute truth. Jem and Will. Will and Jem. Will Herondale lives, therefore Jem Carstairs lives also.”

— Cassandra Clare

134. “When two people are at one in their inmost hearts, they shatter even the strength of iron or bronze.”

— Cassandra Clare

135. “Men may be stronger, but it is women who endure.”

— Cassandra Clare

136. “If I cannot reach Heaven, I will raise Hell.”

— Cassandra Clare

137. “Life is full of risks. Death is much simpler.”

— Cassandra Clare

138. “I can offer you my life, but it is a short life; I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many more beats it shall sustain.”

— Cassandra Clare

139. “Every heart has its own melody.”

— Cassandra Clare

140. “It is not easy to be different, and even less so to be unique.”

— Cassandra Clare

141. “I don’t think Will Herondale and a sense of responsibility are even on speaking terms.”

— Cassandra Clare

142. “All I know is that I love you. And for the first time, that’s good enough.”

— Cassandra Clare

143. “He will get through this, even if he thinks he won’t.”

— Cassandra Clare

144. “Too much of anything could destroy you, Simon thought. Too much darkness could kill, but too much light could blind.”

— Cassandra Clare

145. “What’s the word for a perfectly reasonable fear of annoying idiots?”

— Cassandra Clare

146. “They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite.”

— Cassandra Clare

147. “The best lies are based on the truth, at least in part.”

— Cassandra Clare

148. “It has been the privilege and the honor of my life to know you.”

— Cassandra Clare

149. “Loss was an inevitability of love, pain the inescapable price of joy. Everyone had to learn this someday – maybe this was what it meant to grow up.”

— Cassandra Clare

150. “Every meeting led to a parting, and so it would, as long as life was mortal. In every meeting there was some of the sorrow of parting, but in everything parting there was some of the joy of meeting as well.”

— Cassandra Clare