Top 500 Cassandra Clare Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “When you fight, you should fight with your whole heart.”

— Cassandra Clare

252. “No real lady would let a dress that might have been worn by a stranger touch her skin.”

— Cassandra Clare

253. “I love you; I love you and I don’t care that you’re my sister; don’t be with him, don’t want him, don’t go with him. Be with me. Want me. Stay with me. I don’t know how to be without you.”

— Cassandra Clare

254. “Will you do me the honor of being my wife?”

— Cassandra Clare

255. “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

256. “I was born into this world to love you, and I will love you in the next life, and the one after that.”

— Cassandra Clare

257. “We cannot understand life, and therefore we cannot hope to understand death.”

— Cassandra Clare

258. “Grief makes you feel alone, but you’re not. I know you don’t believe in-in religion-the same way I do, but you can believe you’re surrounded by people who love you, can’t you?”

— Cassandra Clare

259. “Brown is a manly color.”

— Cassandra Clare

260. “I know you worry about me needing you, but I shouldn’t be with you because I need you. I should be with you because I love you.”

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Cassandra Clare

262. “There are things our souls want, and mine wants you.”

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Cassandra Clare

264. “Hearts are breakable, but even when you heal, you’re never what you were before.”

— Cassandra Clare

265. “I loved you recklessly from the moment I knew you. I never cared about the consequences. I told myself I did, I told myself you wanted me to, and so I tried, but I never did. I wanted you more than I wanted to be good. I wanted you more than I wanted anything, ever.”

— Cassandra Clare

266. “No man chooses evil because it is evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. – Mary Wollstonecraft.”

— Cassandra Clare

267. “Wherever we are, we are as one.”

— Cassandra Clare

268. “He kissed each finger, and with each one of them spoken a word. Five kisses, five words. His last.”

— Cassandra Clare

269. “It’s your gift, to see the beauty and the horror in ordinary things. It doesn’t make you crazy, just different.”

— Cassandra Clare

270. “I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass.”

— Cassandra Clare

271. “Usually I’m remarkably good natured. Try me on a day that doesn’t end in y.”

— Cassandra Clare

272. “At last, the wheel comes full circle.”

— Cassandra Clare

273. “One does no question miracles, or complain that they are no constructed perfectly to one’s liking.”

— Cassandra Clare

274. “The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away.”

— Cassandra Clare

275. “Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death.”

— Cassandra Clare

276. “Jealousy is such an ugly emotion.”

— Cassandra Clare

277. “Whatever you are physically: male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy, all those things matter less than what your heart contains. All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but you are the light inside.”

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Cassandra Clare

279. “You love each other – anyone can see that, looking at you – that kind of love that can burn down the world or raise it up in glory.”

— Cassandra Clare

280. “Have a little faith in my magic fingers.”

— Cassandra Clare

281. “Why is it, little Shadowhunter, that your angels are so cold and without mercy? Why do they break that which will not obey them?”

— Cassandra Clare

282. “They confused beauty with innocence and harmlessness.”

— Cassandra Clare

283. “The boy was standing alone as though the broken glass all around him were a shining sea and he were an island.”

— Cassandra Clare

284. “Because you told me you don’t have feelings for me anymore, and you see, that’s very akward, because I still have them for you. And I bet you know it.”

— Cassandra Clare

285. “Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.”

— Cassandra Clare

286. “Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable, Brother Zachariah to Clary Fray.”

— Cassandra Clare

287. “There will always be those who want to tell you who you are based on your name or the blood in your veins. Do not let other people decide who you are. Decide for yourself.”

— Cassandra Clare

288. “I’m pure at heart. It repels the dirt.”

— Cassandra Clare

289. “Truth is brighter than Light Falsehood darker than night Revenge is keener than Axe and Love is softer than melting wax.”

— Cassandra Clare

290. “Not your parabatai any longer.”

— Cassandra Clare

291. “We are ever capable of change and ever capable of being our better selves.”

— Cassandra Clare

292. “Now that you know the truth, you can never go back.”

— Cassandra Clare

293. “If there were such a thing as terminal literalism, you’d have died in childhood.”

— Cassandra Clare

294. “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

295. “And he understands. He understands why people hold hands: he’d always thought it was about possessiveness, saying This is mine. But it’s about maintaining contact. It is about speaking without words. It is about I want you with me and don’t go.”

— Cassandra Clare

296. “My rapier wit hides my inner pain.”

— Cassandra Clare

297. “As we all have an infinite capacity to make mistakes, we all have an infinite capacity for forgiveness.”

— Cassandra Clare

298. “Anyone who says women are weak is afraid they’re too strong.”

— Cassandra Clare

299. “Perfect heroines, like perfect heroes, aren’t relatable, and if you can’t put yourself in the protagonist’s shoes, not only will they not inspire you, but the book will be pretty boring.”

— Cassandra Clare

300. “I have a high pain threshold. In fact, it’s more of a large and tastfully decorated foyer than a threshold. But I do get easily bored.”

— Cassandra Clare