Cassandra Clare on Life

"If there's a thing I've learned in my life it's to not be afraid of the responsibility that comes with caring for other people. What we do for love: those things endure. Even if the people you do them for don't"

"There is no pretending, I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then."

"People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters."

"Sorry, are you telling me that your demon-slaying buddies need to be driven to their next assignation with the forces of darkness by my mom?"

"One does no question miracles, or complain that they are no constructed perfectly to one's liking."

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

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

"We seem to be trapped in an episode of One Life to Waste. It's all very dull."

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

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

"Everything changes in my life, and the world stays the same."

"You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all."

"Hate is nothing when weighed against survival. (Valentine)"

"Everyone should die with someone holding onto them."

"And when I saw him[my father] lying dead in a pool of his own blood, I knew then that I hadn't stopped believing in God. I'd just stopped believing God cared. There might be a God, Clary, and there might be not. Either way, we're on our own."

"I recall what you said to me once, that words have the power to change us. Your words have changed me, Tess; they have made me a better man than I would have been otherwise. Life is a book, and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read. I would read them together with you, as many as I can, before I die."