“She was afraid of nothing and demanded everything.”
— Cassandra Clare
“Everyone has something they can’t live without.”
— Cassandra Clare
“Every time you rip the bandages off, you just open the wound up again. Every time he sees you, it’s like tearing off the bandages.”
— Cassandra Clare
“Magnus looked away, so as not to see the wreckage. “I wish you luck,” he said. “Luck and love.” Edmund made a small bow. “I bid you good day. I think we will not meet again.” He walked away, into the inner reaches of the Institute. A few feet away, he wavered and paused, light from one of the narrow church windows turning his hair rich gold, and Magnus thought he would turn. But Edmund Herondale never looked back.”
— Cassandra Clare
“When the fey were worried, it was time to panic.”
— Cassandra Clare
“He had to escape. He had to go and become a hero, the way he had been once.”
— Cassandra Clare
“It is always better to live the truth than to live a lie.”
— Cassandra Clare
“Speaking of luck, Isabelle Lightwood is a total babe. Actually, she’s better than a babe: She’s a hero. She came all the way here to tell the world you were hers. You’re telling me she doesn’t know another hero when she sees one? You’re going to figure out what you’re doing here. Isabelle Lightwood believes in you, and for what it’s worth, I do too.”
— Cassandra Clare
“I suppose we all lie to ourselves sometimes.”
— Cassandra Clare
“The monster’s bride at his door. Magnus could not stop staring. [Jocelyn] was staring too. She seemed transfixed by his pajamas. Magnus was frankly offended. He had not invited any wives of crazed hate-cult leader to come around and pass judgement on his wardrobe.”
— Cassandra Clare
“One cannot judge a man for the sins of his family.”
— Cassandra Clare
“Simon snorted. “If you ever meet the man who could take advantage of Isabelle, you’ll have to let me know. I’d like to shake his hand. Or run away from him very fast, I’m not sure which.”
— Cassandra Clare
“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 in the sea.”
— Cassandra Clare
“We are Morgensterns,” he added, a dark ache in his voice. ” The bright stars of morning. The children of Lucifer, the most beautiful of all God’s angels. We are so much lovelier when we fall.” He paused. “Look at me , Clary. Look at me.”
— Cassandra Clare
“Not specifically. “Demons have been on Earth as long as we have. They’re all over the world, in their different forms – Greek daemons, Persian daevas, Hindu asuras, Japanese oni. Most belief systems have some method of incorporating both their existence and the fight against them. Shadowhunters cleave to no single religion, and in turn all religions assist us in our battle. I could as easily have gone for help to a Jewish synagogue or a Shinto temple, or – Ah. Here it is.”
— Cassandra Clare
“Demons,” drawled the blond boy, tracing the word on the air with his finger. “Religiously defined as hell’s denizens, the servants of Satan, but understood here, for the purposes of the Clave, to be any malevolent spirit whose origin is outside our own home dimension –”
— Cassandra Clare
“You can not buy or drug or dream your way out of pain.”
— Cassandra Clare
“Perhaps there isn’t anything Alec is afraid of.”Magnus glanced at Alec and raised his eyebrows. “Boo,” he said.Jace was grinning. “Come on, surely you’ve got a phobia or two. What scares you?”Alec thought for a moment. “Spiders,” he said.Clary turned to Luke. “Have you got a spider anywhere?”Luke looked exasperated. “Why would I have a spider? Do I look like someone who would collect them?”“No offense,” Jace said, “But you kind of do.”“You know”—Alec’s tone was sour—”Maybe this was a stupid experiment.”“What about the dark?” Clary suggested. “We could lock you in the basement.”“I’m a demon hunter,” Alec said, with exaggerated patience. “Clearly, I am not afraid of the dark.”
— Cassandra Clare
“You don’t have to do this.””I think I do,” Julian said. “I remember making a vow to that affect.””Whither thou goest, i will go, whatever stupid thing you do, i shall do also’.” Emma said. “Was that the vow?”
— Cassandra Clare
“The way Magnus’ breath had sounded, rattling in his chest, before he’d said his father’s name.”
— Cassandra Clare
“Do you not tire of eternity? Do you not wish to end your suffering?””By leaping into the Void? Not really.”
— Cassandra Clare
“A sense of hopelessness had invaded his bones, as chill and as inescapable as the rain.”
— Cassandra Clare
“Got caught in the rain, I see,” – Isabelle Lightwood”
— Cassandra Clare
“I’ve got plenty.” Isabelle smiled, kicking her feet up so that her anklets jingled like Christmas bells. “These, for instance. The left one is gold, which is poisonous to demons, and the right one is blessed iron, in case I run across any unfriendly vampires or even faeries, faeries hate iron. They both have strength runes carved into them, so I can pack a hell of a kick. “”Demon hunting and fashion,” Clary said. “I never would have thought they went together.”
— Cassandra Clare
“Magnus had animated one of his magnificent Chinese fans, and it flapped ineffectively at him, barely stirring the breeze. It was, if he was completely honest with himself (and he did not want to be), a bit too hot for this new striped blue-and-rose-colored coat, made of taffeta and satin, and the silk faille waistcoat embroidered with a scene of birds and cherubs. The wing collar, and the wig, and the silk breeches, the wonderful new gloves in the most delicate lemon yellow . . . it was all a bit warm.Still. If one could look this fabulous, one had an obligation to. One should wear everything, or one should wear nothing at all.”
— Cassandra Clare
“Are you in fashion? You look like you’re in fashion.””No,” [Magnus] said. “I am fashion.”
— Cassandra Clare
“You could dress it up with a sequined headband,” Magnus suggested, offering his boyfriend something blue and sparkly. “Just a thought.” “Resist the urge, Alec.” Simon was sitting on the edge of a low wall with Maia beside him, though she appeared to be deep in conversation with Aline. “You’ll look like Olivia Newton-John in Xanadu.” “There are worse things,” Magnus observed.”
— Cassandra Clare
“The rich bought wonderful clothes you recognized. The richest had their pople go to Paris and buy the entire new collection that no one outside of the fashion house has seen.”
— Cassandra Clare
“The moon was wide—too wide and too close. Mentally, Simon told the moon to stop being so close and bright and that it should just generally shut up with the mooniness.”
— Cassandra Clare
“As long as I can dream, I will dream of you.”
— Cassandra Clare