Quotes From "City Of Heavenly Fire" By Cassandra Clare

Herondales." Zachariah's voice was a breath, half laughter, half pain. "I had almost forgotten. No other family does so much for love, or feels so much guilt for it. Don't carry the weight of the world on you, Jace. It's too heavy for even a Herondale to bear. Cassandra Clare

Value your parabatai, " he said. "For it is a precious bond. All love is precious. It is why we do what we do. Why do we fight demons? Why are they not fit custodians of this world? What makes us better? It is because they do not build, but destroy. They do not love, but hate only. We are human and fallible, we Shadowhunters. But if we did not have the capability to love, we could not guard humans; we must love to guard them. My parabatai, he loved like few ever could love, with all and everything. I see you are like that too; it burns more brightly in you than the fire of Heaven. Cassandra Clare

Jace broke off the kiss and stepped back with an exhale; before Clary could say anything, a chorus of sarcastic applause broke out from the nearby hill. Simon, Isabelle, and Alec waved at them. Jace bowed while Clary stepped back slightly sheepishly, hooking her thumbs into the belt of her jeans Jace sighed. "Shall we join our annoying, voyeuristic friends?"" Unfortunately, that's the only kind of friends we have. . Cassandra Clare

He’s not feeling well, ” Clary said, catching at Simon’s wrist. “We’re going.” “No, ” Simon said. “No, I – I need to talk to him. To the Inquisitor." Robert reached into his jacket and drew out a crucifix. Clary stared in shock as he held it up between himself and Simon. “I speak to the Night’s Children Council representative, or to the head of the New York clan, ” he said. “Not to any vampire who comes to knock at my door –“ Simon reached out and plucked the cross out of Robert’s hand. “Wrong religion, ” he said. Cassandra Clare

Izzy, are you–” he began. His eyes flew wide, and he backed up fast enough to smack his head into the wall behind him. “What is he doing here?” Isabelle tugged her tank top back down and glared at her brother. “You don’t knock now?”“ It– It’s my bedroom! ” Alec spluttered. He seemed to be deliberately trying not to look at Izzy and Simon, who were indeed in a very compromising position. Simon rolled quickly off Isabelle, who sat up, brushing herself off as if for lint. Simon sat up more slowly, trying to hold the torn edges of his shirt together. “Why are all my clothes on the floor?” Alec said.“ I was trying to find something for Simon to wear, ” Isabelle explained. “Maureen put him in leather pants and a puffy shirt because he was being her romance-novel slave.”“ He was being her what?”“ Her romance-novel slave, ” Isabelle repeated, as if Alec were being particularly dense. Alec shook his head as if he were having a bad dream. “You know what? Don’t explain. Just–put your clothes on, both of you. Cassandra Clare

If you never tell anyone the truth about yourself, eventually you start to forget. The love, the heartbreak, the joy, the despair, the things I did that were good, the things I did that were shameful--if I kept them all inside, my memories of them would start to disappear. And then I would disappear. Cassandra Clare

Don’t carry the weight of the world on you Jace. It’s too heavy for even a Herondale to bear. Cassandra Clare

And Nephilim–we tend to love very overwhelmingly. To fall in love only once, to die of grief over love–my old tutor used to say that the hearts of the Nephilim were like hearts of angels: They felt every human pain, and never healed. Cassandra Clare

It took courage to live an immortal life and not close off your heart and mind to any new experiences or new people. Because that which was new was almost always temporary. And that which was temporary broke your heart. Cassandra Clare

Aren't we forever? Cassandra Clare

Family isn't blood. It's the people who love you. The people who have your back. Cassandra Clare

Can I tell you a boring science fact?" she whispered. "I bet you didn't learn it in Shadowhunter history class."" If you're trying to distract me from talking about my feelings, you're not being very subtle about it." He touched her face. "You know I make speeches. It's okay. You don't have to make them back. Just tell me you love me, "" I'm not trying to distract you." She held up her hand and wiggles the fingers. "There are a hundred trillion cells in the human body, " she said. "And every single one of the cells of my body loves you. We shed cells, and grow new ones, and my new cells love you more than the old ones, which is why I love you more every day than I did before. It's science. And when I die and they burn my body and I become ashes that mix with the air, and part of the ground and the trees and the stars, everyone who breathes air of sees the flowers that grow out of the ground or looks up at the stars will remember you and love you, because I love you that much, " She smiled. "How was that for a speech? . Cassandra Clare

She...let the blood spill down instead of tears. Cassandra Clare

As if we’d have sex in a cave surrounded by hordes of demons. This is reality, not your fevered imagination. Cassandra Clare

We find in our children our own selves again, who might be made better than we are. Cassandra Clare

You shouldn't do that. Not to your child. You should-carry your own burdens. Cassandra Clare

Surely, she was too young to have so many ghosts. Cassandra Clare

Temper us in fire, and we grow stronger. When we suffer, we survive. Cassandra Clare

Clary saw him take Mark's hand; he pressed his witchlight into the boy's palm, where it flickered, and then resumed its steady glow. 'Take this with you, ' said Jace, 'for it can be dark in the land under the hill, and the years very long. Cassandra Clare

He remembered Tessa weeping in his arms in Paris, and thinking that he had never known the loss she felt, because he had never loved like she had, and that he was afraid that someday he would, and like Tessa he would lose his mortal love. And that it was better to be the one who died than the one who lived on. He had dismissed that, later, as a morbid fantasy, and had not remembered it again until Alec. Cassandra Clare

As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss. Cassandra Clare

And she wept as well for the others lost in the Dark War, and she wept for her mother and the loss she had endured, and she wept for Emma and the Blackthorns, remembering how they had fought back tears when she had told them that she had seen Mark in the tunnels of Faerie, and how he belonged to the Hunt now, and she wept for Simon and the hole in her heart where he had been, and the she would miss him every day until she died, and she wept for herself and the changes that had been wrought in her, because sometimes even change for the better felt like a little death. Cassandra Clare

I knew a girl, once, immortal like me-"" And she was with someone mortal?" said Alec. "What happened?"" He died, " Magnus said. There was a finality to the way he said it that spoke of a deeper grief than words could paint. Cassandra Clare

You couldn’t make someone love you with a rune, and you couldn’t assuage grief with it either. So much magic, Clary thought, and nothing to mend a broken heart. Cassandra Clare

Wherever Jordan's going - and I do believe we all go somewhere - think of it as the light that will bring him home. Cassandra Clare

Simon, " said a voice at his shoulder, and he turned to see Izzy, her face a pale smudge between dark hair and dark cloak, looking at him, her expression half-angry, half-sad. "I guess this is the part where we say goodbye? Cassandra Clare

And I suppose you know who Magnus’ father is?” Luke said.“ I paid a lot of money once to find it out, ” Raphael said. Cassandra Clare

Goodness, that stuff rips like paper, ” she exclaimed, reaching to pull her tank top off. She was halfway through the action when the door opened and Alec walked into the room.“ Izzy, are you–” he began. His eyes flew wide, and he backed up fast enough to smack his head into the wall behind him. “What is he doing here?” Isabelle tugged her tank top back down and glared at her brother. “You don’t knock now?”“ It– It’s my bedroom! ” Alec spluttered. He seemed to be deliberately trying not to look at Izzy and Simon, who were indeed in a very compromising position. Cassandra Clare

Mortals dies." said Catarina. "You've always known that, and yet you've loved them before."" Not, " Magnus said, "like this." Catarina inhaled in surprise. "Oh, " she said. "Oh.." She picked up her drink. "Magnus, " she said tenderly. "you are impossibly stupid." He narrowed his eyes at her. "Am I?""If that's the way you feel, you should be with him, " she said. "Think of Tessa. Did you learn nothing from her? About what loves are worth the pain of losing them? . Cassandra Clare

Shapes began to appear in the mist as it thickened. Clary saw herself and Simon as children, holding hands, crossing a street in Brooklyn, ; she had barrettes in her hair and Simon was adorably rumpled, his glasses sliding off his nose. There they were again, throwing snowballs in Prospect Park; and at Luke's farmhouse, tanned from summer, hanging upside down from tree branches. She saw them in Java Jones, listening to Eric's terrible poetry, and on the back of a flying motorcycle as it crashed into a parking lot, with Jace there, looking at them, his eyes squinted against the sun. And there was Simon with Isabelle, his hands curved around her face, kissing her, and she could see Isabelle as Simon saw her: fragile and strong, and so, so beautiful. And there was Valentine's ship, Simon kneeling on Jace, blood on his mouth and shirt, and blood at Jace's throat, and there was the cell in Idris, and Hodge's weathered face, and Simon and Clary again, Clary etching the Mark of Cain onto his forehead. Maureen, and her blood on the floor, and her little pink hat, and the rooftop in Manhattan where Lilith had raised Sebastian, and Clary was passing him a gold ring across a table, and an Angel was rising out of a lake before him and he was kissing Isabelle.. . Cassandra Clare

I think, ” Jace said, “that you don’t want to tell your secrets, so you decided to break up with Alec because... Cassandra Clare

But I have made a study of Shadowhunters now, over the past century, and let me tell you that we are more human than most human beings. When our hearts break, they break into shards that cannot be easily fit back together. I envy mundanes their resilience sometimes. Cassandra Clare

Its your decision, Simon Lewis, " said Magnus. "Remain in the existence you have, go to college, study music, get married. Live your life. Or---you can have an uncertain life of shadows and dangers. You can have the joy of reading the stories of incredible happenings, or you can be part of the story."" The choice is up to you Cassandra Clare

Isabelle! " he called again. "Let down your raven hair! '" Oh my God, " Clary muttered. "There was something in that blood Raphael gave you, wasn't there? I'm going to kill him. Cassandra Clare

Isabelle! he called again. Let down your raven hair. Oh, my God, Clary muttered. There was something in that blood Raphael gave you, wasn't there? I'm going to kill him. He's already dead, Simon observed. He's undead. Obviously he can still die, you know, again. I'll re-kill him. Cassandra Clare

The foundations of your childhood, they stay with you. Cassandra Clare

Magnus reached for Alec, but instead of rising to his feet, he pulled Alec against him, his hand sliding up Alec’s back to knot in his hair. Magnus pulled Alec down and against him, and kissed him, hard and awkward and determined, and Alec froze for a moment and then abandoned himself to it, to kissing Magnus, something he’d thought he’d never get to do again. Alec ran his hands up Magnus’sshoulders to the sides of his neck and cupped his hands there, holding Magnus in place while he kissed him thoroughly breathless. Cassandra Clare

Jace: Herondale, on the other hand, is melodic. Dulcet, one might say. Think of the sound of 'Clary Herondale.'Clary: Oh, my god, that sounds horrible. Jace: We all must sacrifice for love. Cassandra Clare

Raphael's hand tightened on the hilt of the knife. His knuckles were white. He spoke to Magnus. "I have no soul, " he said. "But I made you a promise on my mother's doorstep, and she was sacred to me."" Santiago- " Sebastian began." I was a child then. I am not now." The knife fell to the floor. Raphael turned and looked at Sebastian, his wide dark eyes very clear. "I cannot, " he said. "I will not. I owe him a debt from many years ago. . Cassandra Clare

And that - he pointed ahead - is the road to Hell. That's where we're going. I have always heard it was paved with good intentions, said Simon Cassandra Clare

He's not feeling well, " Clary said, catching at Simon's wrist. "We're going."" No, " Simon said. "No, I – I need to talk to him. To the Inquisitor."Robert reached into his jacket and drew out a crucifix. Clary stared in shock as he held it up between himself and Simon. "I speak to the Night’s Children Council representative, or to the head of the New York clan, " he said. "Not to any vampire who comes to knock at my door–" Simon reached out and plucked the cross out of Robert's hand. "Wrong religion, " he said. Cassandra Clare

Oh, God, ” Magnus said. “They’re dead. They’re all dead. Cassandra Clare