Quotes from book

City of Fallen Angels

“The more you try to crush your true nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop.”

“You look lousy,"Simon said.
Jace blinked."Seems an odd time to start an insult contest, but if you insist, I could probably think up something good”

“Alec keeps sending me annoying photos. Lots of captions like Wish you were here, except not really.”

“No one told you to call your band Salacious Mold, my friend."
"We're Millennium Lint now," Simon protested”

“But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it.”

“Everything that happens to you matters to me.”

“I prefer the school of life.”

“But it was mortality that made them what they were, the flame that blazed brighter for it's flickering”

“You said there was nothing in the world you wanted" The Queen's eyes glittered. "When you imagine your life without him, do you still feel the same?”

“L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.
"It means that love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything.”

“If love were food, I would have starved on the bones you gave me”

“Love is a contradiction.”

“I screwed her over. I didn't want to see her screwed over by someone else.”

“And I would do it again. I love you, Jace Wayland-Herondale-Lightwood-whatever you want to call yourself. I don't care. I love you and I will always love you, and pretending it could be any other ways is just a waste of time.”

“One of the things he'd always loved about Clary was how easily caught up in her imagination she was, how easily she could wall herself away in illusory worlds of curses and princes and destiny and magic.”

“It's fascinating. You know all these words, and they’re all English, but when you string them together into sentences, they just don’t make any sense.”

“That's right. Act likerejected. It's not like you tried to kill me or anything.”

“Eternity is a long time to spend alone, without others of your kind.”

“Why is it, little Shadowhunter, that your angels are so cold and without mercy? Why do they break that which will not obey them?”