Quotes from book

Lady Midnight

“Faeries believed in promises over fidelity of body or heart.”

“Laws are meaningless, child. There is nothing more important than love. And no law higher.”

“She soared above the ground, and he kept her tethered to the earth. Without him she would be lost among the clouds.”

“Your heart is a weapon the size of your fist. “God”

“The rules are the rules for a reason. Being a Shadowhunter, a good one, is about more than just training fourteen hours a day and knowing sixty-five ways of killing a man with salad tongs.”

“In the dark and the shadows where secrets lived, that was where Julian survived. It was how he had managed for years.”

“And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you.”

“Julian spoke through his teeth. "Malcolm, this is not a love story."
"Every story is a love story.”

“But there were worse things than being left.”

“Being told that love is forbidden does not kill love. It strengthens it.”

“We can be cruelest to those who remind us of ourselves.” “Ty”

“Women are fiercer by far than men.”

“Everyone is more than one thing,” said Kieran. “We are more than single actions we undertake, whether they be good or evil.”

“You are all that exists on the earth and under the sky that I do love.”

“So we're racing the Clare and the Courts," said Julian. "Fantastic. Maybe there's someone else we can piss off. The Spiral Labyrinth? The Scholomance? Interpol?”

“It was hard to live normally when you were constantly pretending you didn't see what was going on in front of your face.”

“Their closeness wouldn't break, but it would bend and stretch into a new shape.”

“A gentle boy with a gentle soul, but every soul contains its own opposite, and the opposite of gentleness was ruthlessness—the beautiful wreckage of mercy.”

“and a rather controversial one for birth control that had nevertheless quickly become the most often used rune in the lexicon.”