Top 500 Cassandra Clare Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “Sometimes the most ruthless heart speaks the most truth.”

— Cassandra Clare

202. “I hate Brooklyn.”

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Cassandra Clare

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

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205. “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

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

— 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. “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

209. “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

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

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Cassandra Clare

212. “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

213. “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

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

— Cassandra Clare

215. “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

216. “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

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

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Cassandra Clare

219. “Fire tests gold.”

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220. “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

221. “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

222. “You are not trivial.”

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Cassandra Clare

227. “Dreams can be dangerous things.”

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

— Cassandra Clare

229. “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

230. “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

231. “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

232. “You understand my music.”

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Cassandra Clare

234. “I think he’s jealous.”

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

— Cassandra Clare

236. “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

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

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Cassandra Clare

239. “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

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

— Cassandra Clare

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

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242. “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

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

— Cassandra Clare

244. “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

245. “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

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

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Cassandra Clare

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

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

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Cassandra Clare