Cassandra Clare Quotes

• 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.

  Cassandra Clare

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Help

• The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me.

  Cassandra Clare

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Moments

• I’ll just have them change the entry in the demonology textbook from ‘almost extinct’ to ‘not extinct enough for Alec. He prefers his monsters really, really extinct.’ Will that make you happy?

  Cassandra Clare

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Change

• Other crack teams get bat boomerangs and wall-climbing powers; we get Aquatruck

  Cassandra Clare

  Topics in Funny

• 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

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Kiss

• It means ‘Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of our Enemies Since 1234

  Cassandra Clare

  Topics in Humor

• Do you remember back at the hotel when you promised that if we lived, you’d get dressed up in a nurse’s outfit and give me a sponge bath?asked Jace.
  It was Simon who promised you the sponge bath.
  As soon as I’m back on my feet, handsome,said Simon.
  I knew we should have left you a rat.

  Cassandra Clare

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Humorous

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

  Cassandra Clare

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poetry, Books, Reading

• Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.

  Cassandra Clare

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Thousand, Read

• It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone.

  Cassandra Clare

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Feel, Completely, Books

• Where there is love, there is often also hate.

  Cassandra Clare

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Hate, Often

• You’re a reader as well as a writer, so write what you’d want to read.

  Cassandra Clare

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writer, Read

• Perfect heroines, like perfect heroes, aren’t relatable, and if you can’t put yourself in the protagonist’s shoes, not only will they not inspire you, but the book will be pretty boring.

  Cassandra Clare

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Book, Yourself

• Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know of, and use them to embellish and define characters.

  Cassandra Clare

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Real, Together

• And write what you love – don’t feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny.

  Cassandra Clare

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Feel, Write, Serious

Cassandra Clare (55)

Birth:	27th July, 1973
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Novelist

About

Cassandra Clare was born in Tehran, Iran. She is an American author of young adult fiction, best known for her bestselling series The Mortal Instruments. She is also friends with author Holly Black, and their books occasionally overlap, Clare mentioning characters from Black's novels and vice versa, such as Val and Luis from Black's Valiant. In 2004, Clare started working on her first-published novel, City of Bones. A subsequent second trilogy contained three more books: City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls, and City of Heavenly Fire.

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