“Brave rifles! Veterans! You have been baptized in fire and blood and have come out steel!”

“Perhaps the fires through which I had passed would have a purifying effect on me, just as a blast furnace burns the impurities out of steel.”

“My poems please the brave:
My poems, short and sincere,
Have the force of steel
Which forges swords.”

“And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand,
The hand that held the steel:
For only blood can wipe out blood,
And only tears can heal”

“You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever.”

“Those who have come alive out of a blood-bath live longer and have more children.”

“We have come over a way that with tears has been watered,
We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered.”

“So you thought you’d come back, my wicked one. Where have you been?”
“In hell,” said Titus. “Swigging blood and munching scorpions.”
“That must have been great fun, my darling.”

“She looked so irresistibly beautiful as she said those brave words that no man alive could have steel his heart against her.”

“I know Shadowhunters. I have for a long time. You are odd creatures. All fragile nobility and humanity on one side, and all the thoughtless fire of angels on the other. You especially, Herondale, for you have the fire of angels in your blood.”