City Of Heavenly Fire Quotes

“Heroes aren't always the ones who win," she said. "They're the ones who lose, sometimes. But they keep fighting, they keep coming back. They don't give up. That's what makes them heroes.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“Magnus rolled onto his back and put his feet up on the arm of the sofa. “What do you care if Alec’s miserable?”

“What do I care?” Jace said, so loudly that Chairman Meow rolled off the couch and landed on the floor. “Of course I care about Alec; he’s my best friend, my parabatai. And he’s unhappy. And so are you, by the look of things. Takeout containers everywhere, you haven’t done anything to fix up the place, your cat looks dead —“

“He’s not dead.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“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, City of Heavenly Fire

“I've never felt so... light.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“There are things our souls want, and mine wants you.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“I have not stopped loving her, nor my parabatai; love does not stop when someone dies.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“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, City of Heavenly Fire

“It wasn’t sexy," he said.
“It was a little sexy,” Simon said.
He felt much better, having fed, and couldn’t help but poke at Alec a bit.
“It wasn’t,” said Alec.
“I had some feelings,” said Simon.”
"Do feel free to agonize about it on your own time.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“You’ve changed me for the better, and even if you left me, I would still have that.” He paused. “Not that you should leave me,” he added hastily”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“I just wanted to say that you don't always have to be all right. I asked you to be my parabatai because I needed you, but you're allowed to need me, too. This" - he indicated his own parabatai rune - "means you are the better, other half of me, and I care about you more than I care about myself. Remember that. I'm sorry I didn't realize how much you were hurting. I didn't see it then, but I see it now.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“This is the deepest wish of my heart?"
"Sure," Magnus said.
"Your father, proud of you. You, the hero of the hour. Me, loving you. Everyone approving of you."
Alec looked over at Jace.
"Okay, what about the Jace thing?"
Magnus shrugged.
"I don't know. Thet part's just weird.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“Hold on to me," Alec said, and Magnus gave him the sort of smile that made Alec feel like someone had taken an apple corer to his heart and tried to dig out the center.

"I always do, Alexander," he said. "I always do.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“I am a hundred and forty six years old and this is not my first unwinnable war.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“Alec is not a bunny rabbit. He's a shadowhunter.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“Clary," he said. "You're Clary. You're my best friend.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“Remember how before, I was talking about Dungeons and Dragons?
Vividly, Jace said. It was a dark time.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“I'll go with you," Alec said, looking at Isabelle and Simon with suspicious eyes.
"If you must," said Isabelle with exaggerated indifference.
"I should warn you we'll be making out in the dark. Big, sloppy make-outage."
Simon looked startled.
"We are -" he began, but Isabelle stomped on his toe, and he quieted.
"Make-outage?" said Clary.
"Is that a word?"
Alec looked ill.
"I suppose I could stay here.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“La belle Isabelle”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“I don't remember everything," he said.
"Not yet. But I remember you."
He brought her hand up, touched the gold ring on her right index finger, the Fair Folk metal warm to the touch.
"Clary," he said.
"You're Clary. You're my best friend.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“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, City of Heavenly Fire

“Sometimes it's hard when you want to be like someone but you don't know how.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“Shadowhunters are the Angel's weapons. Temper us in the fire, and we grow stronger. When we suffer, we survive.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“Straight people,' Alec declared. 'Why can't they control themselves?”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“It smells like heartbreak in here.' said Jace.
'That's the Chinese food.' Magnus threw himself onto the sofa and stretched out his long legs.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“Heroes aren't always the ones who win,' she said, 'They're the ones who lose sometimes. But they keep fighting, they keep coming back. They don't give up. That's what makes them heroes.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“goodness is not kindness, and there is nothing crueller than virtue.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“Weapons, when they break and are mended, can be stronger at the mended places,' said Jace. 'Perhaps hearts are the same.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“I think they'll probably put that on my gravestone. 'He was Heterosexual and Had Low Expectations.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“I want to share my life with you, and that means today, and the future, and all of my past, if you want it. If you want me.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“the world isn't divided into the special and the ordinary. Everyone has the potential to be extraordinary. As long as you have a soul and free will, you can be anything, do anything, choose anything.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire