Cassandra Clare

"It was as though each of them had discovered something unexpected but infinitely desirable. They were not yet sure of each other, but they wanted to be."

- Cassandra Clare

"I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there's a life after that, I'll love you then."

- Cassandra Clare

"I am catastrophically in love with you."

- Cassandra Clare

"I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you."

- Cassandra Clare

"You and me, we're like two fish in the sea of love."

- Cassandra Clare

"You know it’s the people who we love the most who can hurt us the most."

- Cassandra Clare

"She leaned forward and caught at his hand, pressing it between her own. The touch was like white fire through his veins. He could not feel her skin only the cloth of her gloves, and yet it did not matter. _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

"One must always be careful of books, and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us."

- Cassandra Clare

"Every teenager in the world feels like that, feels broken or out of place, different somehow, royalty mistakenly born into a family of peasants. The difference in your case is that it’s true."

- Cassandra Clare

"I was alive when the Dead Sea was just a lake that was feeling a little poorly."

- Cassandra Clare

"Every meeting led to a parting, and so it would, as long as life was mortal. In every meeting there was some of the sorrow of parting, but in everything parting there was some of the joy of meeting as well."

- Cassandra Clare

"We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss."

- Cassandra Clare

"There are memories that time does not erase… Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable."

- Cassandra Clare

"Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry."

- Cassandra Clare

"Sharp is the arrows of a broken heart."

- Cassandra Clare

"There are memories that time does not erase... Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable."

- Cassandra Clare

"I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead." "Well," said Luke, "you're doing a fantastic job."

- Cassandra Clare

"Sarcasm is the last refuge for the imaginatively broke."

- Cassandra Clare

"In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn’t matter how hard it was to make it. It matters that you did."

- Cassandra Clare

"When you love someone, you don't have a choice. Love takes your choices away."

- Cassandra Clare

"I’m sorry. I use my rapier wit to hide my inner pain."

- Cassandra Clare

"They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite"

- Cassandra Clare

"Wrinkles mean you laughed, grey hair means you cared and scars mean you lived."

- Cassandra Clare

"Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change -Clary Fray"

- Cassandra Clare

"She had always wanted a brother. And she had one now. Sebastian. It was like always wanting a puppy and being a hellhound instead."

- Cassandra Clare

"As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?"

- Cassandra Clare

"Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read."

- Cassandra Clare