Cassandra Clare

Quotes

1. "I want to see Brother Zachariah."

   "He is well. You need not worry yourself about him."

   "I want to see him. I nearly killed him at the Citadel--"

   "That was not you. That was the heavenly fire. And it did anything but harm him."

   "He said when I met him that he believes a debt is owed to the Herondales. I'm a Herondale. He'd want to see me."

   "And then you intend to depart the Basilias?"

   "There is nothing wrong with me. I don't need to be in the infirmary. Surely you could be using your resources more fruitfully on the actually wounded. Look, you can either bring me to Brother Zachariah or I can wander around yelling for him until he turns up."

   "You are a great deal of trouble, Jace Herondale."

   "So I've been told."

2. 

   "Shadowhunters. They get in your blood, under your skin. I've been with vampires, werewolves, faeries, warlocks like me-- and humans, so many fragile humans. But I always told myself I wouldn't give my heart to a Shadowhunter. I've so nearly loved them, been charmed by them-- generations of them, sometimes: Edmund and Will and James and Lucie... the ones I saved and the ones I couldn't. And Clary, too, I loved, for I watched her grow up. But I've never been in love with a Shadowhunter, not until Alec. For they have the blood of angels in them, and the love of angels is a high and holy thing."

3. 

   "Warlocks are independent. And hard to get hold of. Like cats, but with fewer tails. Well, there are some tails. I don't have one myself--"

4. 

   "Above her another window opened, and Alec leaned out. 'What's going on?' His gaze landed on Clary and the others, his eyebrows drawing together in confusion. 'What is this? Early caroling?'

   'I don't carol,' said Simon. 'I'm Jewish. I only know the dreidel song.'"

5. 

   "Well, what kind of thing does make you feel calm and peaceful?"

   "Killing demons. A good clean kill is very relaxing. The messy ones are more annoying, because you have to clean up afterward--"

   "No. No killing. We're trying to make you feel peaceful. Blood, killing, war, those are all non-peaceful things. Isn't there anything else you like?"

   "Weapons. I like weapons."

   "I'm starting to think we have a problematic issue of personal philosophy here."

6. 

   "Herondales. I had almost forgotten. No other family does so much for love, or feels so much guilt for it. Don't carry the weight of the world on you, Jace. It's too heavy for even a Herondale to bear."

7. 

   "The first time you saw me, I bet you didn't think, He's going to get me killed."

   "The first time I saw you, I wished you'd go back to Idris. You know I don't like change."

   "I grew on you, though."

   "Eventually. Like a moss, or a skin disease."

8. 

   "Clary looked down at herself. She was wearing a pair of flannel pajamas, too short in the leg and tight in the chest, with fire trucks on them.

   Luke raised an eyebrow. 'I think those were mine when I was a kid.'

   'You can't seriously tell me there wasn't anything else you could have put me in.'

   'If you insist on trying to get yourself killed, I insist on being the one who chooses what you wear while you recover,' Jocelyn said with a tiny smirk.

   'The pajamas of vengeance,' Clary muttered."

9. 

   "Everyone should die with someone holding onto them."

10. 

    "I always thought being a Shadowhunter meant that I had to approve of what the Clave did. I thought otherwise I wasn't loyal. I made excuses for them. I always have. But I feel like whenever we have to fight, we're fighting a war on two fronts. We fight the enemy and we fight the Clave, too. I don't--I just don't know how I feel anymore."

11. 

    "'I did not make a pie,' Alec repeated, gesturing expressively with one hand, 'for three reasons. One, because I do not have any pie ingredients. Two, because I don't actually know how to make a pie.'

    He paused, clearly waiting.

    Removing his sword and and leaning it against the cave wall, Jace said warily, 'And three?'

    'Because I am not your bitch,' Alec said, clearly pleased with himself."

12. 

    "What does she want?"

    "Constant meetings. Depositions. The Clave keeps wanting to hear what happened when we fought Sebastian at the Burren. We've all had to give accounts, like, fifty times. How Jace absorbed the heavenly fire from Glorious. Descriptions of the Dark Shadowhunters, the Infernal Cup, the weapons they used, the runes that were on them. What we were wearing, what Sebastian was wearing, what everyone was wearing... like phone sex but boring."