Cassandra Clare: Frasi in inglese

“And now I need you to do for me what I cannot do for myself. For you to be my eyes when I do not have them. For you to be my hands when I cannot use my own. For you to be my heart when mine is done beating.”

Cassandra Clare libro Clockwork Princess

“Fire wants to burn
Water wants to flow
Air wants to rise
Earth wants to bind
Chaos wants to devour
Cal wants to live”

Cassandra Clare libro The Iron Trial

“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 libro Shadowhunters - Città di vetro

“I can stand.”
“It looks to me like you‘re using a wall to prop you up. that’s not my definition of ‘standing.’”
“Its leaning,” Jace told him. “Leaning comes right before standing.”

Cassandra Clare libro Shadowhunters - Città di cenere

“We who are immortal, we are chained to this life by a chain of gold, and we dare not sever it for fear of what lies beyond the drop.”

Cassandra Clare libro Clockwork Prince

“I am Cortana, of the same steel and temper as Joyeuse and Durendal.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”

Cassandra Clare libro Shadowhunters - Signore delle Ombre

“I thought it was keep your friends close so you have someone to drive the car when you sneak over to your enemy's house at night and throw up in his mailbox,"
-Jace”

Cassandra Clare libro Shadowhunters - Città degli angeli caduti

“Sometimes there is not always a cure.”

Cassandra Clare libro Shadowhunters - Città del fuoco celeste

“You have to give everyone ugly motives for everything they do, because ugly motives are all you understand.”

Cassandra Clare libro Shadowhunters - Città di cenere

“Some are just born bad, and that's all there is to it.”

Cassandra Clare libro Clockwork Prince

“Staring at him the
way she might stare at a beloved place she
was not sure she would ever see again, trying
to commit the details to memory, to paint
them on the backs of her eyelids that she
might see it when she shut her eyes to sleep.”

Cassandra Clare libro Clockwork Prince

“Tiberius Nero Blackthorn. I think his parents may have gone a little overboard. It's like naming someone Magnificent Bastard.”

Cassandra Clare libro Shadowhunters - Signora della Mezzanotte

“Do not think I do not know that Cecily wants you to return home with her. And do not think I do not know that you remain for Jem's sake."

"And yours," he said before he could stop himself.”

Cassandra Clare libro Clockwork Princess

“"Jesus!" Luke exclaimed. "Actually, it's just me," said Simon. "Although I've been told the resemblance is startling."”

Cassandra Clare Shadowhunters

“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”

Cassandra Clare libro Shadowhunters - Le origini

“I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead."
"Well," said Luke, "you're doing a fantastic job.”

Cassandra Clare libro Shadowhunters - Città di cenere

“"Well there goes my plan for selling them on eBay," Clary muttered.
"Selling them on what?"
Clary smiled blandly at him. "A mythical place of great magical power."”

Cassandra Clare libro Shadowhunters - Città di ossa

“And I'm suppose to sit by while you date boys and fall in love with someone else, get married…?" His voice tightened. "And meanwhile, I'll die a little bit more every day, watching.”

Cassandra Clare libro Shadowhunters - Città di vetro

“Well, I’m not kissing the mundane," said Jace. "I’d rather stay down here and rot."
"Forever?" said Simon. "Forever’s an awfully long time."
Jace raised his eyebrows. "I knew it," he said. "You want to kiss me, don’t you?”

Cassandra Clare libro Shadowhunters - Città di cenere