Quote

Books are for reading, not for turning oneself into livestock.

Cassandra Clare

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Cassandra Clare
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: July 31
Author
Film Producer
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Teheran
Judith Rumelt
Livestock
Turning
Oneself
Books
Reading
Book

More quotes by Cassandra Clare

Image
I’ve been wandering around all night—I couldn’t sleep—and I kept finding myself walking here. To you.
Cassandra Clare
Image
I wish I could hate you, he said. His voice was light, his mouth curved in an unconcerned half smile, his eyes sick with misery. I want to hate you. I try to hate you. It would be so much easier if I did hate you. Sometimes I do hate you and then I see you and I.
Cassandra Clare
Image
She had thought she was going to save her mother, and now there was going to be nothing for her to do but sit by her mother's bedside, hold her limp hand, and home someone else, somewhere else, would be able to do what she couldn't.
Cassandra Clare
Image
You cannot hide your true self forever.
Cassandra Clare
Image
With tears running down her face, Cecily had reminded him of the moment at her wedding to Gabriel when he had delivered a beautiful speech praising the groom, at the end of which he had announced, “Dear God, I thought she was marrying Gideon. I take it all back.
Cassandra Clare
Image
I tell so many lies, sweetheart, he said. which one specifically?
Cassandra Clare
Image
Oh dear, said Jace...I hope that wasn't anything important. It was a sleeping potion, she said angrily, toeing the vial with the tip of a sneaker. And now it's gone. If only Simon were here. He could bore you to sleep.
Cassandra Clare
Image
Will: I say we sell her to the Gypsies on Hampstead Heath. I hear they puchase spare women as well as hoses. Charlotte: Will, stop it. That's ridivulous. Will:You're right. They'd never buy her. Too scrawny.
Cassandra Clare
Image
Don't fight in front of the client, boys. Catarina implored in her sweet voice, or I will knock your heads together so hard, your skulls will crack like eggs
Cassandra Clare
Image
Your city is under attack, he said. 'The wards are down, adn the streets area full of demons. And you want to know why I haven't called you? Magnus to Alec
Cassandra Clare
Image
What is one person's pleasure is another's poison.
Cassandra Clare
Image
By the Angel, this place is barely better than a penny gaff,” Gideon said. “Gabriel, don’t look at anything unless I tell you it’s all right.
Cassandra Clare
Image
Some Laws were meant to be broken.
Cassandra Clare
Image
Dear God, woman,said Will. Are there any questions you don't want to know the answer to?
Cassandra Clare
Image
I saw Jonathan after he faced the fear demon, you know. It showed itself to him as you. That told me all I needed to know. The greatest fear in Jonathan’s life is the love he feels for his sister.
Cassandra Clare
Image
She had made the choice for him - in a moment of flight and panic, but she had made it - not realizing that her Jace would rather die than be like this, and that she'd been not so much saving his life as damning him to an existence he would despise.
Cassandra Clare
Image
We are one now, little brother, you and I, Sebastian said. We are one.
Cassandra Clare
Image
She had no recollection, later, of having decided what to do next, or of having hunted for something to wear, but somehow she was hurrying down the stairs, dressed in shadowhunter gear, the letter in one hand and the chain with the ring clasped hastily around her throat.
Cassandra Clare
Image
Nothing less than 7 inches.
Cassandra Clare
Image
Did you just kiss me? Will inquired. Magnus made a slip-second decision. No. I thought- On occasion the aftereffects of the painkilling spells can result in hallucinations of the most bizarre sort. Oh, Will said. How peculiar.
Cassandra Clare