Cassandra Clare Quotes

For me, it was always survival. Learn where not to be at so you don't get shot. Learn where not to walk at so you don't get jumped. Learn who to stand up to, who not to stand up to. And then, when I got old enough to get a chip on my shoulder, I wanted to be the dog. I wanted to be the alpha.

I did what sports were supposed to be like, and I was living in my car. So you know what, fine. I'm gonna talk a bunch of sh*t. I'm gonna pose in a couple of pictures. And I'm gonna break a couple of girl's arms, and I'm not gonna feel the least bit sorry about it because you know what? At least I can feed my dog.

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.

If one comes to kill you, make haste and kill him first.

The men would kill me.

If you believe that their real intention is to kill you, it isn't unreasonable to believe that they would lie to you.

By the time I was in high school, I was big enough to beat the hell out of everybody who said anything to me. And I learned how to blend in. All of that made me a very confident man. A very aggressive man. I developed it to survive.

My first instinct is always to fight back because ever since I was a kid, that's what I've always had to do to survive.

Fighting, you have to be selfish.

Forward, always moving forward, from the time I can remember - a kid. I was short, and the big guys would take advantage; I had to turn myself into a body puncher. By that time I was in reform school, they'd have a boxing match every week; they'd bring guys in from outside to fight me.

I'm scared of any fighter I've ever fought because they are some dangerous people to be dealing with.

I don’t wanna die, man. They’re not playing. Have you seen how many of them are out there? One just took a shot at me, so unlike you morons, I’m hiding. Hiding is nice. (Vik)

Either you are a victim or you victimize someone and in the hood it's no holds barred. The kid in the schoolyard that doesn't want to fight always leaves with a black eye.

Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.

If you don't hunt it down and kill it, it will hunt you down and kill you.

I'm gonna get me a gun, all those people who put me down you better get ready to run.

They want us dead,' said Bond calmly. 'So we have to stay alive.

Luckily, I's learned at an early age that self-preservation was the only way to survive with your soul intact.

I can remember a couple of real fights when I ran. Because they were kinda dangerous.

Never," he spat out, "kick a man who is pointing a gun at you.

Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can.

All the general fear I've been feeling condenses into an immediate fear of this girl, this predator who might kill me in seconds. Adrenaline shoots through me and I sling the pack over one shoulder and run full-speed for the woods. I can hear the blade whistling toward me and reflexively hike the pack up to protect my head. The blade lodges in the pack. Both straps on my shoulders now, I make for the trees. Somehow I knew the girl will not pursue me. That she'll be drawn back into the Cornucopia before all the good stuff is gone. A grin crosses my face. Thanks for the knife, I think.

Those who do not know how to fight worry die young.

When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength.