Cassandra Clare

Cassandra Clare
Judith Rumelt, better known by her pen name Cassandra Clare, is an American author of young adult fiction, best known for her bestselling series The Mortal Instruments...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth27 July 1973
CityTehran, Iran
CountryUnited States of America
cooking beauty-fades incomparable
Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.
love-you long clockwork-angel
It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.
dream dangerous dangerous-things
Dreams can be dangerous things.
hands helping drowning
Drowning yourself won't help, she told herself sternly. Now, drowning Will, on the other hand...
life change pain
Sometimes," Jem said, "our lives can change so fast that the change outpaces our minds and hearts. It's those times, I think, when our lives have altered but we still long for the time before everything was altered-- that is when we feel the greatest pain. I can tell you, though, from experience, you grow accustomed to it. You learn to live your new life, and you can't imagine, or even really remember, how things were before.
love-is infernal-devices
It is as great a thing to love as it is to be loved. Love is not something that can be wasted.
character men wish
When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does.
strong thinking ifs-and
My ideas often come from strong mental images. When I'm observing some relatively ordinary thing, I'll think, "What if...." and out of that brainstorming a story emerges.
glasses broken sometimes
He was the one she was doing all this for, but sometimes she missed him so much it felt like she swallowed broken glass.
world ifs tessa-gray
If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?
fate sky purple
Let me give you a piece of advice. The handsome young fellow who's trying to rescue you from a hideous fate is never wrong. Not even if he says the sky is purple and made of hedgehogs.
book writing listening
I like to listen to music that fits with what I'm writing. For each book, I've assembled a playlist, so readers can get a sense of what I was listening to while I was writing.
men use inanimate-objects
Inanimate objects are harmless indeed, Mr. Mortmain. But one cannot always say the same of the men who use them.
thinking laughing attention
You behave as if everything is funny to you, but you never laugh. Sometimes you smile when you think no one is paying attention.