Quotes

The Mortal Instruments - City of Bones

"Clarissa. Not a name I would have chosen. " - Valentine Morgenstern

"This is bad."

"You said that already."

"It seemed worth repeating." - Jace Wayland and Clary Fray

"Unfortunately we're all out of bitter revenge at the moment, so it's either tea or nothing. " - Hodge Starkweather

"What's an eBay?"

"A mythical place of great magical power." - Jace Wayland and Clary Fray

"First, the candy and flowers, then the apology letters, then the ravenous demon hordes. In that order." - Jace Wayland

"You can hang your head out the window, if you like."

"I'm a werewolf, not a golden retriever." - Clary Fray and Luke Garroway

"Lately I've been crossdressing. Also. I'm sleeping with your mom. Just thought you should know." - Simon Lewis

"Your mom gets like that. Like when she breathes in and out." - Simon Lewis

"Go ahead and ask her. Then she can turn you down and you can fester in miserable humiliation." - Jace Wayland

"What are you doing here?"

"Here as in your bedroom, or here as in the great, spiritual question of our purpose on this planet?" - Clary Fray and Jace Wayland

"Jesus!"

"Actually, it's just me. Although I've been told the resemblance is startling."

- Luke Garroway and Simon Lewis

"You don't know what it's like, being afraid all the time."

"That's right. I don't." - Hodge Starkweather and Valentine Morgenstern

"That to love is to destroy and that to be the one loved is to be the one destroyed." - Jace Wayland

"You'll learn. It's in your blood." - Jace Wayland

"Is this the part where you start tearing off strips of your shirt to bind my wounds?"

"If you wanted me to rip my clothes off, you should have just asked.”

- Clary Fray and Jace Wayland

"It's the Mortal Cup, Jace. Not the Mortal Toilet Bowl." - Isabelle Lightwood

The Mortal Instruments - City of Ashes

"Usually I'm remarkably good-natured. Try me on a day that doesn't end in y."

- Jace Wayland

"I dont want to be a man. I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead."  - Jace Wayland

"Nothing less than seven inches. That's my motto." - Isabelle Lightwood

"Yes. I was trained to be an evil mastermind from a young age. Sterilising flowerbeds, pulling the wings off flies, I was covering that stuff in kindergarten. Good thing he decided to fake his own death before we got to the raping and pillaging or no-one would be safe." - Jace Wayland

"His secrets? Oh yes, my father's terrified that I'll tell you he's always wanted to be a ballerina!" - Jace Wayland

"It was like a bad movie except he didn't actually twirl his moustache."

- Jace Wayland

"Don't doubt my weaseling abilities, Shadowhunter, for they are epic and memorable in their scope." - Magnus Bane

"Mom and Dad won't be pleased if they find out."

"That you freed a possible criminal by trading away your brother to a warlock who looks like a gay Sonic the Hedgehog and dresses like the Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang? No, probably not."

- Isabelle Lightwood and Simon Lewis

"Others get bat boomerangs and wall-crawling powers. We get the AQUATRUCK." - Clary Fray

The Mortal Instruments - City of Glass

"Do we all have to do that, too?"

"You want a piece of all this fabulousness." - Maia and Simon Lewis

"I am a man and real men do not consume pink beverages. Get thee gone woman, and bring me something brown."

"Brown?"

"Brown is a manly color." - Jace Wayland and Isabelle Lightwood