Top 500 Cassandra Clare Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “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

252. “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

253. “You’d think the Angel would have been foresighted enough to give us a birth-control rune, but no dice.”

— Cassandra Clare

254. “That Jem makes beautiful things and I destroy them. That it really ought to be me dying and not him. I mean, what’s the point of living if you can’t even enjoy it? Yet Jem enjoys all the life he’s got. It’s not fair.”

— Cassandra Clare

255. “Making promises you can’t keep is worse than making no promises at all.”

— Cassandra Clare

256. “When you fight, you should fight with your whole heart.”

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Cassandra Clare

259. “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

260. “Sometimes carrying the burden of an upsetting truth, and hiding it, is actually a gift you give to someone else. You bear that burden, so they don’t have to, in a situation where telling them will change nothing.”

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Cassandra Clare

262. “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

263. “Brown is a manly color.”

— Cassandra Clare

264. “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

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

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Cassandra Clare

268. “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

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

— Cassandra Clare

270. “Family is more than blood.”

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Cassandra Clare

274. “My will and my desire were turned by love, the love that moves the sun and the other stars.”

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Cassandra Clare

277. “Jealousy is such an ugly emotion.”

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Cassandra Clare

281. “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

282. “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

283. “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

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

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Cassandra Clare

286. “We are Shadowhunters. We do not wait to be saved by others. We save ourselves.”

— Cassandra Clare

287. “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

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

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Cassandra Clare

293. “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

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

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Cassandra Clare

296. “Love, real love, is being seen. Being known. Knowing the ugliest part of someone, and loving them anyway.”

— Cassandra Clare

297. “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

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

— Cassandra Clare

299. “Not your parabatai any longer.”

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Cassandra Clare