Quote

Sometimes minor characters are based on people I know, on friends of mine. But I'm not writing a thinly veiled version of my own life.

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
People
Mine
Characters
Thinly
Based
Veiled
Friends
Minor
Character
Minors
Sometimes
Version
Writing
Versions
Life
Mines

More quotes by Cassandra Clare

Image
Tell me you love me. Tell me you love me and will fight with me.
Cassandra Clare
Image
Magnus had learned to be careful about giving his memories with his heart. When people died, it felt like all the pieces of yourself you had given to them went as well. It took so long, building yourself back up until you were whole again, and you were never entirely the same.
Cassandra Clare
Image
[Jem] 'It will help you sleep.' 'All I’ve been doing is sleeping!' [Tessa] 'And very amusing it is to watch, said Jem. 'Did you know you twitch your nose when you sleep, like a rabbit?' 'I do not,' she said, with a whispered laugh. 'You do,' he said. 'Fortunately, I like rabbits.
Cassandra Clare
Image
I don't know how to live in the world as a Shadowhunter without Will. I don't think i even want to. I am still a parabatai, but my other half is gone.
Cassandra Clare
Image
Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.
Cassandra Clare
Image
Books are for reading, not for turning oneself into livestock.
Cassandra Clare
Image
Just kissing? How quickly you dismiss our love.
Cassandra Clare
Image
Jace, There is no wedding! Stop Isabelle! Sit on her if you have to. Just stop her from doing whatever she's doing or I can never come home. -Alec
Cassandra Clare
Image
I never said that. I just didn't correct you when you were, you know, wrong. Anyway, I just saved you from being burned to death, so I figure you're not allowed to be mad. -Jace
Cassandra Clare
Image
You might want to lie down, Magnus advised. I find that it helps when the crushing sense of horrible realization sets in.
Cassandra Clare
Image
I have heard sometimes that men who lose an arm of a leg still feel that pain in those limbs, though they are gone,' said Will. 'It is like that sometimes. I can feel Jem with me, though he is gone, and it is like I am missing a part of myself.
Cassandra Clare
Image
Jem touched the parabatai rune on his shoulder, through the thin material of his nightshirt. I am not alone, he said. Wherever we are, we are as one.
Cassandra Clare
Image
Tess, Tess, Tessa. Was there ever a more beautiful sound than your name? To speak it aloud makes my heart ring like a bell. Strange to imagine that, isn’t it—a heart ringing? But when you touch me, that is what it is like, as if my heart is ringing in my chest and the sound shivers down my veins and splinters my bones with joy.
Cassandra Clare
Image
What is Aldous capable of? Aldous is two thousands years old. He's capable of anything. Aldous Nix is two thousands years old? So, I've heard. He doesn't invite me to his birthday parties.
Cassandra Clare
Image
D'you think he would have thought ahead like that? said Henry. Assuredly, said Will. The man's a strategist. He tapped his temple. Like me.
Cassandra Clare
Image
He's not here. Not here like he just popped around the corner to the bodega for a six-pack of Diet Coke and a box of Krispy Kremes, or not here like.
Cassandra Clare
Image
He looks, Simon had once said to Isabelle, like he's thinking about something deep and meaningful, but if you ask him what it is, he'll punch you in the face.
Cassandra Clare
Image
No. That's Clary shes's my best friend. Simon pocketed his phone. And she has a boyfriend. Like, really, really, really has a boyfriend. The nuclear bomb of boyfriends. Trust me on this one.
Cassandra Clare
Image
Love makes liars of us all.
Cassandra Clare
Image
When somebody tells you there's something wrong with your book they're almost always right, when they tell you how to fix it they're almost always wrong.
Cassandra Clare