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
love
I love scuba-diving, but I hate all the equipment.
author business grew knew usual worked
I grew up in L.A., and I worked for 'The Hollywood Reporter.' I knew enough about the business to know that the usual role of the author on a movie is to get out of the way and not say anything.
character favorite hunger love sherlock tend time
In other people's books, I tend to love the really daredevil-y characters. I love Finnick from 'The Hunger Games.' And I think, probably, my favorite character of all time is Sherlock Holmes.
worry secret ballerina
How awfully convenient for you, regardless. And for him. He won't have to worry about you spilling his secrets." "Yeah," Jace said. "He's terrified I'll tell everyone that he's always wanted to be a ballerina.
knives bridges hair
Isabella with her whip and boots and knives would chop anyone who tried to pen her up in a tower into pieces, build a bridge out of the remains, and walk carelessly to freedom, her hair looking fabulous the entire time.
trying about-yourself always-loved-you
They all have always loved you, Will Herondale, for you cannot hide what is good about yourself, however hard you try.
thinking said courses
But you love her.” Will stared at him. “Of course I do,” he said finally. “I had come to think I would never love anyone, but I love her.
love-you years forever
I curse you," it said. "All who love you will die. Their love will be their destruction. It may take moments, it may take years, but any who look upon you with love will die of it, unless you remove yourself from them forever. And I shall begin it with her." It snarled in Ella’s direction, and vanished.
beautiful broken god-knows
God knows we’re all drawn to what’s beautiful and broken.
clever
But am I clever and right or clever and wrong?
what-if ifs
I tell myself he's better than he makes himself out to be, but, Tessa, what if he isn't?
effort world cost
She had never asked herself whether it cost him any effort. Any effort to stand between Will and the world, protecting each one of them from the other.
long darkness care
I feel myself diminished, parts of me spiralling away into the darkness, that which is good and honest and true - If you hold it away from yourself long enough, do you lose it entirely? If no one cares for you at all, do you even really exist?
mean said courses
Hang Mortmain," said Will. "And I mean that literally, of course, but also figuratively.