I'm tired of watching you be in love with someone else someone who will never love you back, not the way I do.

Catching sight of himself in the long mirrors that ran along the walls, he stiffened in shock...His eyes were surrounded by black shadows, his shirt smeared with dried blood and filthy mud... "Admiring yourself?" The Inquisitor's voice cut through his reverie. "You won't look so pretty when the Clave gets through with you." "You do seem obsessed with my look...Could it be that you're attracted to me?" "Don't be revolting...You could be my son.

If there is a life after this one, he said, let me meet you in it, James Carstairs.

Every book is different with it's own personality just like children.

Mundane humans create distinctions between themselves, distinctions that seem ridiculous to any Shadowhunter. Their distinctions are based on race, religion, national identity, any of a dozen minor and irrelevant markers. ~ Valentine

Only mundanes say they're sorry when what they mean is "I share your grief,"' Jace observed.

But I think it has to do with what you believe about yourself. If you believe you're damned, then you are. But if you don't...