Parenting Quotes by Cassandra Clare

“You shouldn't do that. Not to your child. You should-carry your own burdens.”

— Cassandra Clare

We are not our parents, Gabriel. We do not have to carry the burden of their choices or their sins.

— Cassandra Clare

And I remind you of your mother now? I have got to look into a manlier cologne.

— Cassandra Clare

Clary's mother apparently reguarded him as about as sexually threatening as a goldfish.

— Cassandra Clare

Do you really wish to disobey me, Marbas? Do you wish to anger my father?

— Cassandra Clare

The way Magnus’ breath had sounded, rattling in his chest, before he’d said his father’s name.

— Cassandra Clare

Tell me,” Isabelle said.“Who it was. That my father had the affair with.

— Cassandra Clare

“Your parents could always hurt you, no matter how old you were.”

— Cassandra Clare

Great,” Simon said. “Maybe I’ll even make it back before my mother notices I’m gone. What’s the time difference between here and…

— Cassandra Clare

Just remember, when your mother’s gnawing my ankle like a furious mama bear separated from her cum, I did it for you.

— Cassandra Clare

“You don’t have to tell me good things about your mother,” he added. “I already know them.” “Do you?” He shrugged slightly.…

— Cassandra Clare

She felt as if she bled her regret and loneliness from her very pores, and yet she could not shape those feelings…

— Cassandra Clare

“As Oscar Wilde once said, "To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune. To lose both looks like carelessness.”

— Cassandra Clare

“She moved toward Sebastian- Jonathan- and then froze, standing over him, staring down with a look of amazement, mixed with a terrible…

— Cassandra Clare

“As his mother said, once you started worrying about the future, you started obsessing about the past.”

— Cassandra Clare

So you interrupted my date to make fun of me for still living with my parents. Couldn't you have done that on…

— Cassandra Clare

“Jace was yelling... Clary leaned forward... "My mother always told me if I rode a motorcycle with a boy, she'd kill me,"...…

— Cassandra Clare

“He looked like the sort of boy who'd come over to your house to pick you up for a date and be…

— Cassandra Clare

When I went to stay with I’m, he asked me for something of my fathers to make the tracking easier. I gave…

— Cassandra Clare

Of course you realize you're leaving me in the position of being the one tell everyone - your mother, Luke, Alec, Izzy,…

— Cassandra Clare

Will's Father's gaze went immediately to Gabriel, and then to Cecily, his eyes narrowing. "And who is this gentlemen?" Will's grin widened.…

— Cassandra Clare

At the time I thought what I had with you and your mother was better than nothing. But if you can't tell…

— Cassandra Clare

When you told me the first time that Valentine was your father, I didn't believe it. Not just because I didn't want…

— Cassandra Clare

“The smile faded from Jace’s mouth. “That’s not my home,” he said. “This is my home now.” A spasm of fury twisting…

— Cassandra Clare

You had every right to be. He raised his eyes to look at her and she was suddenly and strangely reminded of…

— Cassandra Clare

Simon remembered a rhyme his mother used to recite to him, about magpies. You were supposed to count them and say: one…

— Cassandra Clare

“What about you, little girl? You going to be a Shadowhunter like your dad?" Clary tried to hide her annoyance. "No," she…

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“And she wept as well for the others lost in the Dark War, and she wept for her mother and the loss…

— Cassandra Clare

Charlotte said that if I chose, I could cease to be a Gray and take the name my mother should have had…

— Cassandra Clare

“Sona looked slightly horrified. “Cordelia has a tendency to throw herself into every situation headlong,” she said to Tessa and Will. “I’m…

— Cassandra Clare

“You can't fix grief,” said Simon. “A rabbi told me that when my father died. The only thing that fixes grief is…

— Cassandra Clare

“Instead his father took the bird, now tame and trusting, in his hands and broke its neck. ‘I told you to make…

— Cassandra Clare

“Isabelle snorted. 'All the boys are gay. In this truck, anyway. Well, not you, Simon.' 'You noticed' said Simon. 'I think of…

— Cassandra Clare

“He is a demon, Clarissa,” said Valentine, still in the same soft voice. “A demon with a man’s face. I know how…

— Cassandra Clare

“Once there was a boy,” said Jace. Clary interrupted immediately. “A Shadowhunter boy?” “Of course.” For a moment a bleak amusement colored…

— Cassandra Clare

“As the carriage rolled under the Institute’s gates, James saw his parents standing in the courtyard. “And where have you been?” Will…

— Cassandra Clare

“ London The Institute Year of Our Lord 1878 “Mother, Father, my chwaer fach, It’s my seventeenth birthday today. I know that…

— Cassandra Clare

“Mother,” Alec’s voice as he interrupted his mother was firm, implacable, and not unkind. “Father. There’s something I have to tell you.”…

— Cassandra Clare

“Father . . . ," Gabriel began. "Father is a worm." Will gave a short laugh. He was in gear as if…

— Cassandra Clare

My father is a big believer in nature over nurture.

— Cassandra Clare