Top 500 Cassandra Clare Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “Anyone who says women are weak is afraid they’re too strong.”

— Cassandra Clare

302. “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

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

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Cassandra Clare

305. “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

306. “Give me one good reason why I shouldn’t chop him into worthless-bastard-themed confetti. – Isabelle Lightwood.”

— Cassandra Clare

307. “As happens in times of despair for the noble and true – so, never for me – an angel came.”

— Cassandra Clare

308. “Drowning yourself won’t help, she told herself sternly. Now, drowning Will, on the other hand...”

— Cassandra Clare

309. “You have a book that’s also a face?”

— Cassandra Clare

310. “But even the strongest tree can have a weak branch.”

— Cassandra Clare

311. “Speaking of hope, did you see that shot Alec got off with his bow? That’s my boyfriend.”

— Cassandra Clare

312. “She hated that little voice inside her head. Like the Seelie Queen, it planted doubts where there shouldn’t be doubts, asked questions that had no answer.”

— Cassandra Clare

313. “He recognized and accepted this strange new feeling: that he would rather be hurt himself than hurt Alec.”

— Cassandra Clare

314. “But that’s what you’re doing, isn’t it? You’re part of the fight just as much as the Shadowhunters on the ship – and I know you can take some of my strength, I’ve heard of warlocks doing that – so I’m offering. Take it. It’s yours.”

— Cassandra Clare

315. “Faith isn’t never having any doubts; it’s having what you need to overcome them.”

— Cassandra Clare

316. “She hated that will had this effect on her. Hated it. She knew better. She knew what he thought of her. That she was worth nothing. And still a look from him could make her tremble with mingled hatred and longing. It was like poison in her blood, to which Jem was the only antidote.”

— Cassandra Clare

317. “But you hate poetry! Yes, but you make me want to write it.”

— Cassandra Clare

318. “Your place is with me. It always will be. -Jem Carstairs.”

— Cassandra Clare

319. “It will bring you light even among the darkest shadows of this world and others.”

— Cassandra Clare

320. “Because in the end nothing is worse than seeing the fall of one you loved. It was somehow worse than losing a love. It made everything seem questionable. It made the past bitter and confused.”

— Cassandra Clare

321. “What if everything you believe is wrong and you could still be loved and still be forgiven?”

— Cassandra Clare

322. “Our own Sleeping Beauty. Who finally kissed you awake?”

— Cassandra Clare

323. “Astriola. That IS demon pox. You had evidence that demon pox existed and you didnt mention it to me! Et tu, Brute!? He rolled up the paper and hit Jem over the head with it.”

— Cassandra Clare

324. “You’re so easy to tease. And yes, your friend is just fine. Well, except that he keeps putting all my things away and trying to clean up. Now I can’t find anything. He’s compulsive.”

— Cassandra Clare

325. “How could you be heartbroken and happy at the same time?”

— Cassandra Clare

326. “Even in half demon hunter clothes, Clary thought, he looked like the kind of boy who’d come over your house to pick you up for a date and be polite to your parents and nice to your pets. Jace on the other hand, looked like the kind of boy who’d come over your house and burn it down just for kicks.”

— Cassandra Clare

327. “Scrawny little mundane bastard.”

— Cassandra Clare

328. “A good adaptation of your book is worth it because it is such a wonderful experience to see your world translated onto the screen.”

— Cassandra Clare

329. “I think when we make choices – for each choice is individual of the choices we have made before – we must examine not only our reasons for making them but what result they will have, and whether good people will be hurt by our decisions.”

— Cassandra Clare

330. “Alec had his arms around Magnus and was kissing him, full on the mouth. Magnus, who appeared to be in a state of shock, stood frozen.”

— Cassandra Clare

331. “I knew you were crazy, but I didn’t realize that you were out of your goddamned mind!!”

— Cassandra Clare

332. “While the Clave disapproves of trespassers, oddly they take an even darker view of beheading and skinning people. They’re peculiar that way.”

— Cassandra Clare

333. “Your trusting idiocy knows no bounds.”

— Cassandra Clare

334. “Trust. It is like placing a blade in someone’s hand and setting the very point to your heart.”

— Cassandra Clare

335. “The world is the same but you are different.”

— Cassandra Clare

336. “You have ruthlessness in your bones and ice in your heart, Clarissa. Don’t tell me any differently.”

— Cassandra Clare

337. “Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know of, and use them to embellish and define characters.”

— Cassandra Clare

338. “He had electric blue hair that had stuck around his head like tendrils of a startled octopus.”

— Cassandra Clare

339. “Might I make free with your lettuce, my lady?”

— Cassandra Clare

340. “You have to give everyone ugly motives for everything they do, because ugly motives are all you understand.”

— Cassandra Clare

341. “She seemed shy, yet all her attention was focused on Magnus, as if he were the most fascinating thing she had ever seen. There was no man who did not want to see himself reflected like that in a beautiful girl’s eyes.”

— Cassandra Clare

342. “Without sorrow, there can be no joy.”

— Cassandra Clare

343. “What I actually want to call you is a hell of a lot more unprintable than your name.”

— Cassandra Clare

344. “There was an electric anger in his gaze, and a sort of challenge that made Simon long to hit him with something heavy. Like a pickup truck.”

— Cassandra Clare

345. “Also, I’m sleeping with your mom. Just thought you should know.”

— Cassandra Clare

346. “The only one who gets to canoodle in my bedroom is my magnificent self.”

— Cassandra Clare

347. “Come in. And try not to murder any of my guests.”

— Cassandra Clare

348. “Jace, There is no wedding! Stop Isabelle! Sit on her if you have to. Just stop her from doing whatever she’s doing or I can never come home. -Alec.”

— Cassandra Clare

349. “I’ve never asked him but I’m sure he has a fairly stringent policy about random teenagers lurking in his shrubbery.”

— Cassandra Clare

350. “The funny thing about mundies is how obsessed with magic they are for a bunch of people who don’t even know what the word means.”

— Cassandra Clare