Top 500 Cassandra Clare Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “I hate Brooklyn.”

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Cassandra Clare

204. “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

205. “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

206. “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

207. “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

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

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Cassandra Clare

210. “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

211. “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

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

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213. “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

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

— Cassandra Clare

215. “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

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

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217. “Fire tests gold.”

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218. “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

219. “I was thinking about the first time I ever saw you and how after that I couldn’t forget you. I wanted to, but I couldn’t stop myself.”

— Cassandra Clare

220. “You are not trivial.”

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Cassandra Clare

225. “Dreams can be dangerous things.”

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

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227. “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

228. “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

229. “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

230. “You understand my music.”

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231. “I think he’s jealous.”

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

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

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234. “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

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

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236. “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

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

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

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

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

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241. “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.”

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242. “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.”

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243. “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.”

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244. “Going round and around inside a dryer can be fatal, whereas pasta is rarely fatal. Unless Isabelle makes it.”

— Cassandra Clare

245. “For this I would be damned forever. For this I would have given up everything.”

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246. “If love is great, then it is worth fighting for.”

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247. “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.”

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248. “In your eyes I have always found grace.”

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249. “I believe that historical fiction is the closest thing we have to time travel.”

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250. “I’m not ritualistic about writing. I try to write as often as possible, which means that I have to be able to write in all kinds of situations, whether it’s at home on my couch, out at a cafe, or traveling.”

— Cassandra Clare