She warned me about Mr. Herondale, though, said he’d likely be rude to me, and familiar. She said I could be rude right back, that nobody would mind.” “Someone ought to be rude to him. He’s rude enough to everyone else.

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.

He remembered Simon warning him, with wryness, that Clary had the nuclear bomb of boyfriends.

I am, in the end, what you made me.

You have a dark heart in you, Valentine’s daughter,” he said. “You just won’t admit it. And if you want Jace, you had better accept it. Because he belongs to me now.

It would be one thing if I had been cursed so that everyone I loved would die," said Will. "I could keep myself from loving. To keep others from caring for me--it is an odd, exhausting procedure.

Do you really wish to disobey me, Marbas? Do you wish to anger my father?