Mortal Instruments Quotes

Hearts are breakable, but even when you heal, you're never what you were before.

Cassandra Clare

Clary: What are you doing here, anyway?Jace: 'Here' as in your bedroom or 'here' as in the great spiritual question of our purpose here on this planet? If you're asking whether it's all just a cosmic coincidence or there's a greater metaethical purpose to life, well, that's a puzzler for the ages. I mean, simple ontological reductionism is clearly a fallacious argument, but-Clary: I'm going to bed.

Cassandra Clare

To love IS to destroyand to be loved is to be the one destroyed

Cassandra Clare

Enormous? Did you just call me FAT? I am not fat. - Jace

Cassandra Clare

If there were such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood.

Cassandra Clare

She closed her eyes and jumped. For a moment she felt herself hang suspended, free of everything. Then gravity took over, and she plunged toward the floor. Instinctively she pulled her arms and legs in, keeping her eyes squeezed shut. The cord pulled taut and she rebounded, flying back up before falling again. As her velocity slowed, she opened her eyes and found herself dangling at the end of the cord, about five feet above Jace. He was grinning.'Nice', he said. 'As graceful as a falling snowflake.

Cassandra Clare

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

The Law is hard, but it is the Law.

Cassandra Clare

Just like an alley in New York -like every alley in the world, apparently- it smelled like cat pee.

Cassandra Clare

Hurry up, mundie boy, we've got work to do.

Cassandra Clare

The nod means 'I am a badass, and I recognise that you too, are a badass.

Cassandra Clare

To love is to destroy. To be loved is to be the destroyed.

Cassandra Clare

As long as I can dream, I will dream of you.

Cassandra Clare

One of the heavy marble busts that lined the higher shelves had slid free and was falling toward her; she ducked out of its way, and it hit the floor inches from where she'd been standing, leaving a sizable dent in the floor. A second later Jace's arms were around her and he was lifting her off her feet. She was too surprized to struggle as he carried her over to the broken window and dumped her unceremoniously out of it.

Cassandra Clare

The more you try to crush your true nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop.

Cassandra Clare

You left me. You made a pet out of me, and then you left me. If love were food, I would have starved on the bones you gave me.

Cassandra Clare

Jace said that the cast of Gilligan's Island could do something anatomically unlikely with themselves.

Cassandra Clare

Usually I'm remarkably good natured. Try me on a day that doesn't end in y.

Cassandra Clare

It's the mortal cup Jace, not the mortal toilet bowl.

Cassandra Clare

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

Cassandra Clare