Top 500 Cassandra Clare Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “Sometimes our lives can change so fast that the change outpaces our minds and hearts.”

— Cassandra Clare

402. “Despite everything, I can’t bear the thought of this ring being lost forever, any more than I can bear the thought of leaving you forever. And though I have no choice about the one, at least I can choose about the other.”

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Cassandra Clare

404. “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

405. “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.”

— Cassandra Clare

406. “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

407. “Nothing less than 7 inches.”

— Cassandra Clare

408. “You kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire. He had wondered once why love was always phrased in terms of burning. The conflagration in his own veins, now, gave the answer.”

— Cassandra Clare

409. “Cortana,” he said. “Made by Wayland the Smith, the legendary forger of Excalibur and Durendal. Said to choose its bearer. When Ogier raised it to slay the son of Charlemagne on the field, an angel came and broke the sword and said to him, ‘Mercy is better than Revenge.”

— Cassandra Clare

410. “You are in love and you think that is all there is in the world. But the world is bigger than you, Will, and may have need of you. You are a Shadowhunter. You serve a greater cause. Your life is not yours to throw away.”

— Cassandra Clare

411. “I think you were the wrong person for the Jace that I was, but not the Jace that I am now, the Jace you helped make me. Who is, incidentally, a Jace I like much better than the old one. You’ve changed me for the better, and even if you left me, I would still have that.”

— Cassandra Clare

412. “A scientist said once that if the ocean were as clear as the sky, if we could see everything in it, no one would ever go into the sea. It’s horrifying, what lives in the water, five miles down.”

— Cassandra Clare

413. “I want you to be happy, and him to be happy. And yet when you walk that aisle to meet him and join yourselves forever you will walk an invisible path of the shards of my heart Tessa. I would give over my own life for either of yours.”

— Cassandra Clare

414. “Break my heart, he said. “Break it in pieces. I give you my permission.”

— Cassandra Clare

415. “Siempre hay que tener cuidado con los libros, y con lo que contienen, porque las palabras tienen el poder de cambiarnos.”

— Cassandra Clare

416. “There was sadness in his eyes, a sadness so profound it was almost frightening.”

— Cassandra Clare

417. “But I watch my brothers give their hearts away and I think, Don’t you know better? Hearts are breakable. And I think even when you heal, you’re never what you were before.”

— Cassandra Clare

418. “Through many waters borne, brother, I am come to thy sad grave, that I may give these last gifts to the dead. Forever and ever, brother, hail. Forever and ever, farewell.”

— Cassandra Clare

419. “Don’t bother her, don’t try to talk to her, don’t even look at her, or I’ll fold you in half so many times you’ll look like a tiny little origami werewolf.”

— Cassandra Clare

420. “You decide the truth about yourself. No one else. And the choice about what kind of person you will be is yours alone.”

— Cassandra Clare

421. “We’ve been here before, haven’t we? Last time you were starving, I gave you my blood. It was a little homoerotic, maybe, but I’m secure in my sexuality.”

— Cassandra Clare

422. “A gentle boy with a gentle soul, but every soul contains its own opposite, and the opposite of gentleness was ruthlessness – the beautiful wreckage of mercy.”

— Cassandra Clare

423. “If you insist on disavowing that which is ugly about what you do, you will never learn from your mistakes.”

— Cassandra Clare

424. “Mr. Rochester never courted Jane Eyre, Tessa pointed out. No, he dressed up as a woman and terrified the poor girl out of her wits. Is that what you want?”

— Cassandra Clare

425. “If Jace was gold, catching the light and attention, Alec was silver. And silver, though few people knew it, was a rarer metal than gold.”

— Cassandra Clare

426. “Nescis quid serus vesper vehat.”

— Cassandra Clare

427. “Dear me. Such harsh truths so early in the morning cannot be good for the digestion.”

— Cassandra Clare

428. “Pointless, needless suffering and pain? I don’t suppose it would help if I told you that was the way life is. The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away.”

— Cassandra Clare

429. “Ghosts are memories, and we carry them because those we love do not leave the world.”

— Cassandra Clare

430. “I was pondering the Greek ideals of love. Agape, of course, the highest love, the love that Gods feel. Then eros, romantic love; and philia, the love of friends; and storge, the love of family.”

— Cassandra Clare

431. “I think of myself as a freewheeling bisexual,? – Magnus Bane.”

— Cassandra Clare

432. “The Silent brothers are doing nude cartwheels in the hallways.”

— Cassandra Clare

433. “You think they are kind, that the Nephilim are kind, because they are good, but goodness is not kindness, and there is nothing crueler than virtue. -Amatis Herondale.”

— Cassandra Clare

434. “You and your name dropping he said, I knew Michael, I knew Sammael. The angel Gabriel did my hair. Its like I’m with the band with biblical figures.”

— Cassandra Clare

435. “I don’t know why I had to fall in love with someone who’s more stubborn than I am.”

— Cassandra Clare

436. “It isn’t against the Law to be an idiot.”

— Cassandra Clare

437. “Everyone is afraid of something. We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people because we love them. We fear dying because we value being alive. Don’t wish you didn’t fear anything. All that would mean is that you didn’t feel anything.”

— Cassandra Clare

438. “But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it.”

— Cassandra Clare

439. “If we’re going to the Silent City, you might want to get dressed. I mean, I appreciate the bra-and-panties look, but I don’t know if the Silent Brothers will. There are only a few of the left, and I don’t want them to die of excitement.”

— Cassandra Clare

440. “Then you’ll see the world as it is – infinite.”

— Cassandra Clare

441. “I’m not gay,” said Raphael. “I’m not straight. I’m not interested.” “Your sexuality is ‘not interested’?” Alec asked curiously. Raphael said, “That’s right.”

— Cassandra Clare

442. “Weapons, when they break and are mended, can be stronger at the mended places. Perhaps hearts are the same.”

— Cassandra Clare

443. “He can touch your soul. And there is a difference between having your heart break and having your soul shatter.”

— Cassandra Clare

444. “There is no better distraction in this world than losing oneself in books for awhile.”

— Cassandra Clare

445. “You have something on your neck. What Looks like a bite mark, what were you doing out all night, anyway? Nothing. I went walking in the park. Tried to clear my head. And ran into a vampire What? No! I fell. On your neck?”

— Cassandra Clare

446. “Don’t make it sound like that. Like some ordinary sort of grief. It’s not like that. They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite. Over. This is a fresh wound every day.”

— Cassandra Clare

447. “That’s everyone’s dream, isn’t it, really? Instead of many who give you little pieces of themselves-one who gives you everything.”

— Cassandra Clare

448. “Do reasons matter when there’s nothing that can be done to change things.”

— Cassandra Clare

449. “Marry on Monday for health, Tuesday for wealth, Wednesday the best day of all, Thursday for crosses, Friday for losses, and Saturday for no luck at all. – Folk rhyme.”

— Cassandra Clare

450. “I want to kiss you one more time before I die.”

— Cassandra Clare