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“As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?” (City of Ashes Quotes)
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“At the time I thought what I had with you and your mother was better than nothing. But if you can’t tell the truth to the people you care about the most, eventually you stop being able to tell the truth to yourself.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“But the name Magnus Bane made him think of a towering sort of figure, with huge shoulders and formal purple warlock’s robes, calling down fire and lightning. Not Magnus himself, who was more of a cross between a panther and a demented elf.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“Desire is not always lessened by disgust. Nor can it be bestowed, like a favor, to those most deserving of it. And as my words bind my magic, so you can know the truth. If she doesn’t desire his kiss, she won’t be free.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“Every time you almost die, I almost die myself.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“Everyone has choices to make; no one has the right to take those choices away from us. Not even out of love..”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“Everything changes in my life, and the world stays the same.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“For a moment Clary thought she might fall; she felt as if something essential had been torn away from her, an arm or a leg, and she stared at Jace in blank astonishment- what did he feel, did he feel nothing? She didn’t think she could bear it if he felt nothing.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change -Clary Fray”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“Hate is nothing when weighed against survival.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“He had become a monster. You just couldn’t see it…because it wore the face of a friend.” (City of Ashes Quotes)
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“He looked back at her, and when she saw the look on his face, she saw his eyes at Renwick’s, when he had watched the Portal that separated him from his home shatter into a thousand irretrievable pieces. He held her gaze for a split second, then looked away from her, the muscles in his throat working.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“I can’t believe he didn’t have the dignity and presence of mind just to get drunk and pass out in some gutter,” said Jace. “I must say, I’m disappointed in the little fellow.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“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
City of Ashes
“I keep thinking about blood, I dream about it. Wake up thinking about it. Pretty soon I’ll be writing morbid emo poetry about it.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“I was alive when the Dead Sea was just a lake that was feeling a little poorly.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“If you really love something, you never try to keep it the way it is forever. You have to let it be free to change.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“If you’re texting Magnus to say ‘I think u r kewl’ I’m going to kill you”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“I’ll just have them change the entry in the demonology textbook from ‘almost extinct’ to ‘not extinct enough for Alec. He prefers his monsters really, really extinct.’ Will that make you happy?”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“Look on the bright side,” said Simon, “If they need a human sacrifice, you can always offer me. I’m not sure the rest of you qualify anyway.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“Mom. I have something to tell you. I’m undead. Now, I know you may have some preconceived notions about the undead. I know you may not be comfortable with the idea of me being undead. But I’m here to tell you that undead are just like you and me … well, okay. Possibly more like me than you.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“No, I’m just a very naughty boy. I do all sorts of bad things. I kick kittens. I make rude gestures at nuns.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“Something inside Clary cracked and broke, and words came pouring out. ‘What do you want me to tell you? The truth? The truth is that I love Simon like I should love you, and I wish he was my brother and you weren’t, but I can’t do anything about that and neither can you!”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“Sometimes you don’t have to search out danger, sometimes danger finds you”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“The nod means ‘I am a badass, and I recognise that you too, are a badass.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“Then again, it was Jace. He’d pick a fight with a Mack truck if the urge took him.” (City of Ashes Quotes)
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“There was no Jace Wayland more real than the one he saw in her eyes when she looked at him.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“There’s no need to clarify my finger snap,” said Magnus. “The implication was clear in the snap itself.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“What I actually want to call you is a hell of a lot more unprintable than your name”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“You disappear so completely into your head sometimes,” he said. “I wish I could follow you.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“You might want to lie down,” Magnus advised. “I find that it helps when the crushing sense of horrible realization sets in.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
“You’re so easy to tease. And yes, your friend is just fine. Well, except that he keeps putting all my things away and trying to clean up. Now I can’t find anything. He’s compulsive.”
Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes
