""Don't order any of the faerie food," said Jace, looking at her over the top of his menu. "It tends to make humans a little crazy. One minute you're munching a faerie plum, the next minute you're running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not," he added hastily, "that this has ever happened to me.""
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)

"And now I’m looking at you,” he said, “and you’re asking me if I still want you, as if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has. I never dared give much of myself to anyone before – bits of myself to the Lightwoods, to Isabelle and Alec, but it took years to do it – but, Clary, since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me.

"
— Cassandra Clare (City of Glass)

"Isabella with her whip and boots and knives would chop anyone who tried to pen her up in a tower into pieces, build a bridge out of the remains, and walk carelessly to freedom, her hair looking fabulous the entire time."
— Cassandra Clare

""There is no pretending",Jace said with absolute clarity."I love you,and I will love you until I die,and if there's a life after that,I'll love you then."
She caught her breath.He had said it-the words there was no going back from."
— Cassandra Clare - (City of Glass)

"(Isabelle)"If you're texting Magnus to say 'I think u r kewl,' I'm going to kill you."
"Who's Magnus?" Max inquired.
"He's a warlock," said Alec.
"A sexy, sexy warlock," Isabelle told Max, ignoring Alec's look of total fury.
"But warlocks are bad," protested Max, looking baffled.
"Exactly," said Isabelle.
"
— Cassandra Clare (City of Ashes)

"'Patience grasshopper,' said Maia. 'Good things come to those who wait.'
'I always thought that was "Good things come to those who do the wave,"' said Simon. 'No wonder i've been so confused all my life.'"
— Cassandra Clare (City of Glass)

"He smiled at that, and then his gaze shifted to a spot over my shoulder and it faded. 'These doubts wouldn’t have anything to do with the company you’re keeping of late, would they?'
I didn’t get a chance to answer before the shop door was thrown open and a furious war mage stomped in. Pritkin spotted me and his eyes narrowed.
'You shaved my legs?!'
Mircea looked at me and folded his arms across his chest. I looked from one unhappy face to the other and suddenly remembered that I had somewhere else to be. "
— Karen Chance (Curse the Dawn)

""Just because you call an electric eel a rubber duck doesn't make it a rubber
duck, does it? And God help the poor bastard who decides they want to take a bath with the duckie." - Jace"
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)

""Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt," she told him.
"I can't help it. I use my rapier wit to hide my inner pain."
"Your pain will be outer soon if you don't get out of traffic. Are you trying to get run over by a cab?"
"Don't be ridiculous," he said. "We could never get a cab that easily in this neighborhood.""
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)

"'Not really hungry.'
'She’ll eat.' Pritkin said curtly.
'I said —'
'If you starve to death it would damage my professional reputation.'
'I eat plenty.'
'The same does not apply should I strangle you in understandable irritation, however.'
'I’ll have a sandwich,' I told Nick. 'No meat.'"
— Karen Chance (Embrace the Night)

""I've got a stele we can use. Who wants to do me?"

"A regrettable choice of words," muttered Magnus. -Jace and Magnus pg. 283"
— Cassandra Clare (City of Ashes)

"'And now I'm looking at you,' he said, 'and you're asking me if i still want you, as if I could stop loving you. As if i would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has.'"
— Jace Cassandra Clare City of Glass

"The angel brought you back."
"Because you asked him to. You could have anything alse in the world, and you asked for me."
"But I dont want anything else in the world. I love you. I would do it again. I would ask for you."
— Cassandra Claire - city of glass clary and jace

"We always have choices. In the end that was the choice you made, and it does'nt matter how hard it was to make it. It matters that you did it."
— Cassandra Clare-City of Glass

"Great. I'd been dumped in Hell's waiting room."
— Karen Chance (Touch the Dark)

"I dodged behind Mac for cover and refused to take the bait. I glanced at my nonexistent watch. 'Oops, look at the time. Guess I have to be going now. Let's not do this again sometime, okay?'
Before I could move, Pritkin was there, jamming the medallion into the skin of my upper arm.'Ow!'He looked at me expectantly. I glared at him. 'That hurt!'
'What do you see?'
'A big red mark,'"
— Karen Chance (Claimed By Shadow)

"'When good Americans die, they go to Paris,' the ghost said, after taking a drag on a small cigarette.
'But you’re not dead. I suppose the question must be, are you good?'"
— Karen Chance (Embrace the Night)

"There is no pretending. I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there's a life after that, I'll love you then."
— Cassandra Claire-city of glass

"The most temptation I'd experienced had been with Tomas, the Senate's spy who had been feeding off me without permission, and Mircea, who was probably plotting some nefarious scheme. I have no taste in men."
— Karen Chance (Touch the Dark)

"If I'd had enough breath, I would have screamed, both at the sensation and at the sheer pettiness of the bastard who wouldn't allow me even a tiny chance of escape."
— Karen Chance (Touch the Dark)

"I willingly accept Cassandra's fate
To speak the truth, although believed too late."
— Anne Killigrew

"The lord whose is the oracle at Delphoi neither utters nor hides his meaning, but shows it by a sign.

The Sibyl, with raving lips uttering things mirthless, unbedizened, and unperfumed, reaches over a thousand years with her voice, thanks to the god in her."
— Heraclitus

""...Have you fallen in love with the wrong person yet?'
Jace said, "Unfortunately, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remains myself."
..."At least," she said, "you don't have to worry about rejection, Jace Wayland."
"Not necessarily. I turn myself down occasionally, just to keep it interesting."
-Jace"
— Cassandra Clare

"'There is no pretending,' Jace said with absolute clarity. 'I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there's a life after that, I'll love you then.'- pg 331-City of Glass"
— Cassandra Clare

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them. "
— Jane Austen (Jane Austen's Letters)