Top 500 Cassandra Clare Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “It was like I saw your soul in the notes of the music. And it was beautiful.”

— Cassandra Clare

202. “Every decision you make, makes you. Never let other people choose who you’re going to be.”

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Cassandra Clare

204. “As if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has. Since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely.”

— Cassandra Clare

205. “I hate Brooklyn.”

— Cassandra Clare

206. “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

207. “The first one is always the hardest.”

— Cassandra Clare

208. “Love isn’t a weakness.”

— Cassandra Clare

209. “Our souls are knit. We are one person, James.”

— Cassandra Clare

210. “Sometimes the most ruthless heart speaks the most truth.”

— Cassandra Clare

211. “Always when Will did something to protect Tessa, Jem thought it was for his sake, not for Will’s. Always Will wished Jem could be entirely right. Each needle prick had it own name. Guilt. Shame. Love.”

— Cassandra Clare

212. “People are more than one thing... It is one of the great lessons of growing up, learning that people can do both.”

— Cassandra Clare

213. “All things tend toward entropy. The whole universe is moving outward, the stars pulling away from one another, God knows what falling through the cracks between them.”

— Cassandra Clare

214. “Let me give you a piece of advice. The handsome young fellow who’s trying to rescue you from a hideous fate is never wrong. Not even if he says the sky is purple and made of hedgehogs.”

— Cassandra Clare

215. “I love you, Tessa, and I have loved you, almost since the moment I met you.”

— Cassandra Clare

216. “I was alive when the Dead Sea was just a lake that was feeling a little poorly.”

— Cassandra Clare

217. “One must look at the next step on the path ahead, rather than the mountain in the distance, or one would never reach one’s goal.”

— Cassandra Clare

218. “And we believe in his promises. Therefore you can never lose hope – hatikva – because if you keep hope alive, it will keep you alive.”

— Cassandra Clare

219. “She did not belong to Will-she was too much herself to belong to anyone, even Jem-but she belonged with them, and silently he cursed the Consul for not seeing it.”

— Cassandra Clare

220. “It was stupid to hope, she knew. But sometimes hope was all you had.”

— Cassandra Clare

221. “I take your hand, brother, so that you may go in peace. Will had opened his blue eyes that never lost their colour over all the passing years, and looked at Jem and then Tessa, and smiled, and died, with Tessa’s head on his shoulder and and his hand in Jem’s.”

— Cassandra Clare

222. “He had lost Will Herondale. And he did not know if he could ever get him back.”

— Cassandra Clare

223. “Abashed the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is.”

— Cassandra Clare

224. “God knows we’re all drawn to what’s beautiful and broken.”

— Cassandra Clare

225. “Fire tests gold.”

— Cassandra Clare

226. “He played of love and loss and years of silence, words unsaid and vows unspoken, and all the spaces between his heart and theirs; and when he was done, and he’d set the violin back in its box, Will’s eyes were closed, but Tessa’s were full of tears.”

— Cassandra Clare

227. “You are not trivial.”

— Cassandra Clare

228. “I’ll take Shadowhunter, then. Because from what I’ve experienced of vampires, you mostly suck. No pun intended.”

— Cassandra Clare

229. “Every time you almost die, I almost die myself.”

— Cassandra Clare

230. “I’ve been wandering around all night – I couldn’t sleep – and I kept finding myself walking here. To you.”

— Cassandra Clare

231. “And now I need you to do for me what I cannot do for myself. For you to be my eyes when I do not have them. For you to be my hands when I cannot use my own. For you to be my heart when mine is done beating.”

— Cassandra Clare

232. “I love you, Julian Blackthorn. I love you more than starlight.”

— Cassandra Clare

233. “Dreams can be dangerous things.”

— Cassandra Clare

234. “Love potions? For Will Herondale? T’aint my way to turn down payment, but any man who looks like you has got no need of love potions, and that’s a fact.”

— Cassandra Clare

235. “It was a very bad idea. It was a terrible idea. It was the worst idea he had ever heard. It was irresistible.”

— Cassandra Clare

236. “You understand my music.”

— Cassandra Clare

237. “I keep thinking about blood, I dream about it. Wake up thinking about it. Pretty soon I’ll be writing morbid emo poetry about it.”

— Cassandra Clare

238. “But Magnus, he thought. You never told me. Never warned me it would be like this, that I would wake up one day and realize that I was going somewhere you couldn’t follow. That we are essentially not the same. There’s no “till death do us apart” for those who never die.”

— Cassandra Clare

239. “I think he’s jealous.”

— Cassandra Clare

240. “Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.”

— Cassandra Clare

241. “Everything changes in my life, and the world stays the same.”

— Cassandra Clare

242. “Some lights were never meant to burn for long.”

— Cassandra Clare

243. “Why should I tell you everything about how I feel when you never tell me anything?”

— Cassandra Clare

244. “I’d always hoped that when i said ‘I Love You’ to a girl, she’d say ‘I Know’ like Leia did to Han in Return Of The Jedi.”

— Cassandra Clare

245. “Well I’d certainly hate to interrupt your pleasant night stroll with my sudden death.”

— Cassandra Clare

246. “Fiction is truth, even if it is not fact. If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your brain will live, but your heart will die.”

— Cassandra Clare

247. “When our hearts break, they break into shards that cannot be easily fit back together.”

— Cassandra Clare

248. “You’ve always been what you are. That’s not new. What you’ll get used to is knowing it.”

— Cassandra Clare

249. “She had never thought about her name much before, but when he said it, it was as if she were hearing it for the first time – the hard T, the caress of the double S, the way it seemed to end on a breath.”

— Cassandra Clare

250. “I love reading epic fantasies and big fat books and so I really wanted to write one. I think you always write what you want to read.”

— Cassandra Clare

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