Cassandra Clare

“I thought perhaps that when you told me you did not love me that my own feelings would fall away and atrophy, but they have not. They have grown every day. I love you now more desperately, t...”

“We are bound together, Emma, bound together—I breathe when you breathe, I bleed when you bleed, I’m yours and you’re mine, you’ve always been mine, and I have always, always belonged to you!”

“Must I go bound while you go free Must I love a manwho doesn't love me Must I be born with so little art As to love a man who'll break my Heart”

“Love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything.”

“My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health.”

“Everyone has choices to make; no one has the right to take those choices away from us. Not even out of love..”

“You know what the worst thing I can imagine is? Simon had said. Not trusting someone I love.”

“Everything that happens to you matters to me.”

“Love didn't make you weak, it made you stronger.”

“He can touch your soul. And there is a difference between having your heart break and having your soul shatter.”

“There's something about a place you've been with someone you love. It takes on a meaning in your mind. It becomes more than a place. It becomes a distillation of what you felt for each other...”

“I’ll tell them,” she said. “I’ll tell them it was my fault.” He looked at her, gold eyes incredulous. “You can’t lie to them.” “I’m not. I brought you back,” she said. “You were dead, and I...”

“She soared above the ground, and he kept her tethered to the earth. Without him she would be lost among the clouds.”

“He opened his mouth. The words were there. He was about to say them when a jolt of terror went through him, the terror of someone who, wandering in a mist, pauses only to realise that they h...”

“I just don't see why the past has to matter.”

“She had never imagined she had the power to make someone else so happy. And not a magical power, either--a purely human one.”

“Simon: So were you following me? Or is it just an amazing coincidence that you happened to be on the roof of a building I was walking by when I got attacked? Jace: I was following you. Simon...”

“Every time you almost die, I almost die myself.”

“He knew Alec enough by now to know the conflicting impulses that warred in him. He was conscientious, the kind of person who believed that the others around him were so much more important t...”

“He knew in the way that she was a part of him, the way her breathing was his breathing, and her dreams were his dreams, and her blood was his blood, and when her heart stopped he knew that h...”