Top 500 Cassandra Clare Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “In difficult times, in dark times, some people shine.”

— Cassandra Clare

152. “But God knows, I don’t want anyone but you. I don’t even want to want anyone but you.”

— Cassandra Clare

153. “When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does.”

— Cassandra Clare

154. “Of course I can see you. I’m not blind, you know. Oh, but you are. You just don’t know it.”

— Cassandra Clare

155. “Our hearts, they need a mirror, Tessa. We see our better selves in the eyes of those who love us.”

— Cassandra Clare

156. “Half of your attention is better than all of anyone else’s.”

— Cassandra Clare

157. “If there’s a thing I’ve learned in my life it’s to not be afraid of the responsibility that comes with caring for other people. What we do for love: those things endure. Even if the people you do them for don’t.”

— Cassandra Clare

158. “Abyssus abyssum invocat in voce cataractarum tuarum; omnia excelsa tua et fluctus tui super me transierunt.”

— Cassandra Clare

159. “Whither thou goest, I will go; Where thou diest, will I die And there will I be buried: The Angel do so to me, and more also, If aught but death part thee and me.”

— Cassandra Clare

160. “It’s love, not the Battle of Thermopylae. You don’t have to treat everything like it’s a last stand.”

— Cassandra Clare

161. “Demon slayers take the subway?”

— Cassandra Clare

162. “He touched her face, gently, with the back of his hand. ‘you disappear so completely into your head sometimes.’ he said. ‘i wish i could follow you.’ you do, she wanted to say, you live in my head all the time.”

— Cassandra Clare

163. “If you love someone, you’re not supposed to want them to come back. Better a peaceful sleep in the earth than the life of a zombie – not really dead but not really alive, either.”

— Cassandra Clare

164. “But the name Magnus Bane made him think of a towering sort of figure, with huge shoulders and formal purple warlock’s robes, calling down fire and lightning. Not Magnus himself, who was more of a cross between a panther and a demented elf.”

— Cassandra Clare

165. “Women do not think with logic and discretion but with emotions of the heart.”

— Cassandra Clare

166. “The only way that we can protect each other is if we are together. If we face things together. If we trust each other.”

— Cassandra Clare

167. “One can give up many things for love, but one should not give up oneself.”

— Cassandra Clare

168. “If you ever meet the man who could take advantage of Isabelle, you’ll have to let me know. I’d like to shake his hand. Or run away from him very fast, I’m not sure which.”

— Cassandra Clare

169. “I get a lot of inspiration from research in mythology and folklore, I find that stories people told each other thousands of years ago are still relevant now.”

— Cassandra Clare

170. “You have a power of incalculable value. You need ask nothing of anyone. You need depend on no one. You are free, and that freedom is a gift.”

— Cassandra Clare

171. “Every book is different with it’s own personality just like children.”

— Cassandra Clare

172. “I’ll just have them change the entry in the demonology textbook from ‘almost extinct’ to ‘not extinct enough for Alec. He prefers his monsters really, really extinct.’ Will that make you happy?”

— Cassandra Clare

173. “Sorry, are you telling me that your demon-slaying buddies need to be driven to their next assignment with the forces of darkness by my mom?”

— Cassandra Clare

174. “If You don’t give readers what they want, they’ll be mad at you. If you give them what they do want, they’ll be even more mad at you.”

— Cassandra Clare

175. “That’s why girls have boyfriends. So you have someone to take you to boring functions.”

— Cassandra Clare

176. “He’s got a great sense of humor for a guy who never says anything.”

— Cassandra Clare

177. “I would give you everything of myself. I would give you more in two weeks than most men would give you in a lifetime.”

— Cassandra Clare

178. “I’m tired of watching you be in love with someone else someone who will never love you back, not the way I do.”

— Cassandra Clare

179. “I feel myself diminished, parts of me spiralling away into the darkness, that which is good and honest and true – If you hold it away from yourself long enough, do you lose it entirely? If no one cares for you at all, do you even really exist?”

— Cassandra Clare

180. “I feel myself dissolving, vanishing into nothingness, for if there is no one in the world who cares for you, do you really exist at all?”

— Cassandra Clare

181. “Black hair and blue eyes are my favorite combination.”

— Cassandra Clare

182. “There are memories that time can’t erase, Clarissa. Ask your friend, Magnus Bane, if you don’t believe me. Forever does not make loss forgettable. Only bearable.”

— Cassandra Clare

183. “Fate is never fair. You are caught in a current much stronger than you are; struggle against it and you’ll drown not just yourself but those who try to save you. Swim with it. and you’ll survive.”

— Cassandra Clare

184. “Hail and Farewell, my brother.”

— Cassandra Clare

185. “Pulvis et umbra sumus – we are but dust and shadows.”

— Cassandra Clare

186. “The story that I love you, it has no end.”

— Cassandra Clare

187. “You asked me how I, being immortal, survive so many deaths. There is no great secret. You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.”

— Cassandra Clare

188. “Jem: Come in. Jace: Where’s Brother Zachariah? Jem: I’m right here. Jace Herondale. And once more a Herondale is the object of my deliverance. I should have anticipated.”

— Cassandra Clare

189. “No one is ever the villain of their own story.”

— Cassandra Clare

190. “His eyes were green.”

— Cassandra Clare

191. “Seeing through glamour is easy. It’s people that are hard.”

— Cassandra Clare

192. “Look at him. The face of a bad angel and eyes like the night sky in Hell. He’s very pretty, and vampires like that. I can’t say I mind either.”

— Cassandra Clare

193. “So I lied to you last night. I said that I just wanted one night with you. But I want every night with you.”

— Cassandra Clare

194. “Or maybe it’s just that beautiful things are so easily broken by the world.”

— Cassandra Clare

195. “Wo men shi jie bai xiong di-we are more than brothers, Will.”

— Cassandra Clare

196. “It was like I saw your soul in the notes of the music. And it was beautiful.”

— Cassandra Clare

197. “My name is Sabastian. I had a father, but he is dead. I had a mother, but she is dead to me. I have a brother, and I will Bind him to me. I have a sister, and I will teach her to love me. My name is Sabastain, and I am going to burn down the world.”

— Cassandra Clare

198. “I always thought I was happy being the dark star to your supernova.”

— Cassandra Clare

199. “Not everything that’s true needs to be said.”

— Cassandra Clare

200. “Love isn’t a weakness.”

— Cassandra Clare