Simon had never noticed before, but she wore a silver ring on her right hand, with a partner of flames around the band of it, and a carved L in the center. It reminded him of the ring Clary wore around her neck, with its design of stars. "It's the Lightwood family ring," she said, noticing where his gaze was fixed. "Every family has an emblem. Ours is fire.

Do you even really know how vampires are made?' 'Well, when a mommy vampire and a daddy vampire love each other very much.

You have to give everyone ugly motives for everything they do, because ugly motives are all you understand.

Please tell me you did not bring me out here so you could tell me a very boring story about your sister.

You are the central point about which his world spins.

Your place is with me. It always will be. -Jem Carstairs

Anyone that looked like that wouldn't need to tie up girls and imprison them in order to get them to marry him