Variant: Simon snorted. "If you ever meet the man who could take advantage of Isabelle, you'll have to let me know. I'd like to shake his hand. Or run away from him very fast, I'm not sure which.
Source: City of Glass

“I don't care," Clary said. "He'd do it for me. Tell me he wouldn't. If I were missing-"
"He'd burn the whole world down till he could dig you out of the ashes. I know," Alec said.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“Black hair and blue eyes are my favorite combination.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“There's no need to clarify my finger snap," said Magnus. "The implication was clear in the snap itself.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“You know, some people think Shadowhunters are just myths. Like mummies and genies." Kyle grinned at Jace. "Can you grant wishes?"

"That depends," he said. "Do you wish to be punched in the face?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“It's the Mortal Cup, Jace, not the Mortal Toilet Bowl.”

Cassandra Clare The Mortal Instruments

Isabelle to Jace, pg. 349
The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

“If no one cares for you at all, do you even really exist?”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Variant: If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?
Source: Clockwork Prince

“They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“I figured all your classes were stuff like Slaughter 101 and Beheading for Beginners.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Clary to Jace, pg. 97
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

“We need to talk. All of us. About what we're going to do now."
"I was going to watch Project Runway. It's on next.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Clary and Jace, pg. 137
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)

“Will rolled up his sleeves. "We'll probably have to knock down the door--"
"Or," said Jem, reaching out and giving the knob a twist, "not."
The door swung open onto a rectangle of darkness.
"Now, that's simply laziness," said Will.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“Well, she's not responding to my advances," he observed more brightly than he felt, "so she must be dead."
"Or she's a woman of good taste and sense.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“Sometimes, when I have to do something I don't want to do, I pretend I'm a character from a book. It's easier to know what they would do.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“Have you tried talking to her?"
"No. We've been punching her in the face repeatedly. What? You don't think that will work?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“Alec looked at her and shook his head. "How do you manage never to get mud on your clothes?"
Isabelle shrugged philosophically. "I'm pure at heart. It repels the dirt.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes