Family Quotes by Cassandra Clare

Family is more than blood

— Cassandra Clare

Family isn't blood. It's the people who love you. The people who have your back.

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“Revenge isn't family, Emma. It isn't a friend, and it's a cold bedfellow”

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“The Herondales have always been a family more prized for their jawlines than their intelligence.”

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“What could you do, when what threatened the ones you loved was something else you loved just as much?”

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You know how the bonds of family are, my lady... They cling as tightly as vines. And sometimes, like vines, they cling…

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we are not here just because we have nowhere else; we need nowhere else, because we have the Institute, and those who…

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“Seriously? So what’s the Herondale family motto? ‘Chiseled but angsty’?” He shrugged. ‘If you don’t know what your last name is, it’s…

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Their oldest child, James, had spoken laughingly about Will's unrelenting fear of ducks and his continual battle to keep them out of…

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“Clary curled up on the ground seeing in front of her not the shell of a destroyed town but the eyes of…

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Every teenager in the world feels like that, feels broken or out of place, different somehow, royalty mistakenly born into a family…

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I would think that counted as offering resistance," Will said. "Eating one's son-in-law, that is. Though I suppose everyone has their family…

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“Each family has a history we pass on to each successive generation. We bear the glories and the burdens of our name,…

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“So Jace is my actual family," Kit said. "But I can't go live with him, because him and his hot girlfriend are…

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Tell you what.' Alec reached for a second seraph blade. 'We live through this, and I promise I'll introduce you to my…

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“Every teenager in the world feels like that, feels broken or out of place, different somehow, royalty mistakenly born into a family…

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That sounds terrific, thought Cary, just you, your comatose wife your shell-shocked son, and your daughter who hates your guts. Not to…

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“ No more. The yin fen has taken so much from me: my family, the years of my life, the strength in…

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“I have been a friend to Shadowhunters. I know many of your families, going back for hundreds of years." "There is nothing…

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James, you are all the family I have. I would die for you. You know that. I would die without you. If…

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“Imagine if you were the last Shadowhunter left on earth, imagine if all your family and friends were dead, imagine if there…

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“People are flawed," said Jace. "Not every member of your family is going to be awesome. But when you see Tessa again,…

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“The Frays had never been a religiously observant family, but Clary loved Fifth Avenue at Christmas time. The air smelled like sweet…

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“He knew Alec enough by now to know the conflicting impulses that warred in him. He was conscientious, the kind of person…

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He pulled the Carstairs family ring from his finger and held it out to Will. "Take it." Will let his eyes drift…

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“You're my sister," he said finally. "My sister, my blood, my family. I should want to protect you"—he laughed soundlessly without any…

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“You are a Lightwood," Cecily said. "You stayed because you were loyal to your family name. It is not cowardice." "Wasn't it?…

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“He made it very clear that he didn’t want me here,” she said at last. “That my remaining at the Institute is…

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I decided it was well past time to take him home and place him in bosom of his family. If you had…

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“This was what it meant to be family, he thought. To hurt when someone else hurt. To want to protect them”

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You’re my sister,” he said finally. “My sister, my blood, my family. I should want to protect you”—he laughed soundlessly and without…

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“You're my sister," he said finally. "My sister, my blood, my family. I should want to protect you" - he laughed soundlessly…

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“We'll be together there," said Valentine. "As we should be." That sounds terrific,thought Clary.Just you, your comatose wife, your shell-shocked son, and…

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Because that was what you did with family when you'd been worried about them, you grabbed them and held on to them…

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“All my life I've felt like there was something wrong with me. Something missing or damaged." "Every teenager in the world feels…

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“Every teenager in the world feels like that, feels broken or out of place, different somehow, royalty mistankingky born into a family…

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“Evelyn has left us?" Dru's eyes were huge. "You mean she died?" Magnus started to cough. “Of course not. She went to…

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Unhappy? I was lucky. So, so lucky. And I couldn’t see it.” His eyes met hers. “I love you,” he said. “And…

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She'd always had such contempt for mundanes, the way all Shadowhunters did--she'd believed that they were soft, stupid, sheeplike in their complacency.…

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Would you?” said Gabriel to Will, hotly. “If it was your family?” His lip curled. “Never mind. It’s not as if you…

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