Cassandra Clare

Quotes

1. "When did you get that?"

   "The shirt? At Macy's. Winter sale."

2. 

   What they had between them was still as fragile as a flickering candle flame, as delicate as eggshell - and he knew that if it shattered, if he somehow let it break and be destroyed, something inside him would shatter too, something that could never be fixed.

3. 

   "Because I foresee many romantic picnics in our future. You, drinking a virgin pina colada. Me, drinking the blood of a virgin."

4. 

   "If I made a joke about just dropping in, would you write me off as a cliche?"

5. 

   "What did he promise you?"

   "Oh, you know. The usual. A lifetime's supply of Knicks tickets."

6. 

   Isabelle with her whip and boots and knives would chop anyone who tried to pen her up in a tower into pieces, build a bridge out of the remains, and walk carelessly to freedom, her hair looking fabulous the entire time.

7. 

   "You might want to lie down. I find that helps when the crushing sense of horrible realization sets in."

8. 

   "It was hard not to laugh. Determination like that in a ten-year-old is something to see. He was like a pit bull."

   "If pit bulls wore glasses and were allergic to ragweed."

9. 

   "There might simply be nothing going on that might activate it. Perhaps there isn't anything here that Alec is afraid of."

   Magnus glanced at Alec and raised his eyebrows. "Boo."

10. 

    "The greatest fear in Jonathan's life is the love he feels for his sister."

11. 

    "They can't be worse than vampires. And you did all right with them."

    "Did all right with them? By which I take it you mean we survived?"

    "Well. . ."

    "Faeries," Jace went on, as if Simon hadn't spoken, "are the offspring of demons and angels, with the beauty of angels and the viciousness of demons. A vampire might attack you, if you enter its domain, but a faerie could make you dance until you died with your legs ground into stumps, trick you into a midnight swim and drag you screaming underwater until your lungs burst, fill your eyes with faerie dust until you gouged them out at the roots-"

    "Jace!" Clary snapped.

12. 

    "I really was sick. I swear. I almost died back there on the ship, you know."

    "I know. Every time you almost die, I almost die myself."