I know you worry about me needing you, but I shouldn't be with you because I need you. I should be with you because I love you.
Cassandra ClareI thought perhaps that when you told me you did not love me that my own feelings would fall away and atrophy, but they have not. They have grown every day. I love you now more desperately, this moment, than I have ever loved you before, and in an hour I will love you more than that
Cassandra ClareWhen Jace opened the greenhouse door, the scent hit Clary, soft as the padded blow of a cat's paw.
Cassandra ClarePerhaps, but you would not exist without a woman, would you? However little use you may find us, we are cleverer and more determined and more patient than men. Men may be stronger, but it is women who endure.
Cassandra Clare