Top 500 Cassandra Clare Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “Vampires bore a grudge longer than any technically living creatures, and whenever they were in a bad temper, they expressed themselves through murder.”

— Cassandra Clare

352. “Love, real love, is being seen. Being known. Knowing the ugliest part of someone, and loving them anyway. And... I guess I think two people in love become something else, something more than the sum of their parts, you know? That it must be like you’re creating a new world that exists just for the two of you. You’re gods of your own pocket universe.”

— Cassandra Clare

353. “If only Simon were here. He could probably bore you to sleep.”

— Cassandra Clare

354. “That the wall is coming down.”

— Cassandra Clare

355. “You could know a man not by what his friends said about him, but by how he treated his servants.”

— Cassandra Clare

356. “We all change the world, with every day of living in it – Magnus Bane.”

— Cassandra Clare

357. “Si monumentum requiris, circumspice. Si buscas un monumento, mira alrededor.”

— Cassandra Clare

358. “Izzy -I don’t know why you’d wait for me, but if you do, I promise to make myself worth that wait. Or I’ll try. I can promise I am going to try.”

— Cassandra Clare

359. “Being told that love is forbidden does not kill love. It strengthens it.”

— Cassandra Clare

360. “Magnus: All dreams end when you wake.”

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361. “There are things no magic can destroy, for they are magic in themselves.”

— Cassandra Clare

362. “He’d felt like a jack-o-lantern for the past few days, as if his guts had been yanked out with a fork and dumped in a heap while a grinning smile stayed plastered on his face.”

— Cassandra Clare

363. “For the heart whose woes are legion ‘Tis a peaceful, soothing region – For the spirit that walks in shadow ‘Tis – oh, ’tis an Eldorado! But the traveller, travelling through it, May not – dare not openly view it; Never its mysteries are exposed To the weak human eye unclosed; So wills its King, who hath forbid The uplifting of the fringed lid; And thus the sad Soul that here passes Beholds it but through darkened glasses.”

— Cassandra Clare

364. “Well, then, since you say there will be another life for me, let us both pray I do not make as colossal a mess of it as I have this one.”

— Cassandra Clare

365. “She said that you’ve break my heart.”

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366. “Love is the weakness of human beings.”

— Cassandra Clare

367. “It was one thing to have a demon for a parent. It was another thing when your father owned a significant portion of Hell’s real estate.”

— Cassandra Clare

368. “The only time people turned to watch her go by was when she hurtled past them as she fell.”

— Cassandra Clare

369. “The only truly unbearable burden is living without love.”

— Cassandra Clare

370. “Jem didn’t lose his composure. “I haven’t betrayed the Institute for Tessa,” he said. “I haven’t lied to and endangered those who have cared for me since I was orphaned.” “If you wouldn’t,” said Jessamine, “you don’t really love her.” “If she asked me to,” said Jem, “I would know she did not really love me.”

— Cassandra Clare

371. “If you insist on the chase then you’d better start running ’cause dude, you’re in for a marathon.”

— Cassandra Clare

372. “Can’t complain,” said Magnus, adjusting his cuffs. “If I did, I would only be doing so for attention from a handsome gentleman.”

— Cassandra Clare

373. “Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep, He hath awaken’d from the dream of life; ‘Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep With phantoms an unprofitable strife, And in mad trance, strike with our spirit’s knife Invulnerable nothings. We decay Like corpses in a charnel; fear and grief Convulse us and consume us day by day, And cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay. – Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats” The.”

— Cassandra Clare

374. “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

375. “Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love. – William Shakespeare, Love’s Labour’s Lost.”

— Cassandra Clare

376. “I’ve never been enough, not for anyone, and I’m trying, but I don’t know if I ever will be.”

— Cassandra Clare

377. “His eyes went soft and silver as she spoke. “Zhe shi jie shang, wo shi zui ai ne de,” he whispered. She understood it. In all the world, you are what I love the most.”

— Cassandra Clare

378. “What you said was true. we don’t live or love in a vacuum. There are people around us who care about us who would be hurt, maybe destroyed if we let ourselves feel what we might want to feel.”

— Cassandra Clare

379. “We are chained to this life by a chain of gold, and we dare not sever it for fear of what lies beyond the drop.”

— Cassandra Clare

380. “It’s not like a stab wound you can protect me from. It’s like a million little paper cuts every day.”

— Cassandra Clare

381. “We are not our parents, Gabriel. We do not have to carry the burden of their choices or their sins.”

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382. “Everything that happens to you matters to me.”

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383. “You left me. You made a pet out of me, and then you left me. If love were food, I would have starved on the bones you gave me.”

— Cassandra Clare

384. “Hey guys! Wish you were here, except not really. We’re having fun. Check it out-the pyramids! -Alec and Magnus.”

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385. “There were some memories, though, that never faded.”

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386. “Seriously? So what’s the Herondale family motto? ‘Chiseled but angsty’?” He shrugged. ‘If you don’t know what your last name is, it’s probably Herondale’?”

— Cassandra Clare

387. “There are ways in which we’re so alike. We’re reckless. We don’t think before we act. We’ll do anything for people we love. And I never thought how scary that was for the people who loved me until I saw.”

— Cassandra Clare

388. “I know it’s wrong – God, it’s all kinds of wrong – but I just want to lie down with you and wake up with you, just once, just once ever in my life.”

— Cassandra Clare

389. “I’m not a man. I have no male pride for you to trick me with, and I am not interested in single combat. That is entirely a weakness of your sex, not mine. I am a woman. I will use any weapon and all weapons to get what I want.”

— Cassandra Clare

390. “Maybe. Although I doubt most Shadowhunters get a tattoo of Donatello from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on their left shoulder.”

— Cassandra Clare

391. “His steady gaze held hers. His blue eyes were very dark, uniquely so. She had known people before with blue eyes, but they had always been light blue. Will’s were the color of the sky just on the edge of night.”

— Cassandra Clare

392. “No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily.”

— Cassandra Clare

393. “As long as you exist and I exist, I will love you.”

— Cassandra Clare

394. “No, I’m just a very naughty boy. I do all sorts of bad things. I kick kittens. I make rude gestures at nuns.”

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395. “No good sentences ever include the word ‘should.’ I should have paid the tavern bill; now they’re coming to break my legs. I should never have run off with my best friend’s wife; now she devils me constantly. I should –.”

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396. “Sometimes our lives can change so fast that the change outpaces our minds and hearts.”

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397. “Unrequited love is a ridiculous state, and it makes those in it behave ridiculously.”

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398. “I let you come to my salon because you amuse me, Matthew Fairchild. Because you are a child – a silly and beautiful child, who touches fire because it is lovely, and forgets that it will burn him.”

— Cassandra Clare

399. “I feel like you can look inside me and see all the places I am odd or unusual and fit your heart around them, for you are odd and unusual in just the same way. We are the same.”

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400. “All my life, since I came to the Institute, you were the mirror of my soul. I saw the good in me in you. In your eyes alone I found grace. When you are gone from me, who will see me like that?”

— Cassandra Clare