Cassandra Clare Quotes

Love is a drama of contradictions.

Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

Love is more than one thing.

It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.

Real life consists of the tensions produced by the incompatibility of opposites, each of which is needed

If ice can burn, then love and hate can mate.

Smack in the centre of contradiction is the place to be.

Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.

The tension of opposites: Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted. A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle.

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.

Politics is a love-hate relationship. I sure know that.

Love is a kind of warfare.

Love is a peculiar thing.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

I think love is a really hard thing to define. I think it's multifaceted.

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.

My problem is not that I see all 17 sides of any issue, but I'm equally passionate about all 17 sides simultaneously.

Reason and love are sworn enemies.

When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing has been about the unexpected... that unexpected situation of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time.

Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical.

I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.