Quotes from book

Lady Midnight

“We all find out the people who are supposed to take care of us are human eventually. That they make mistakes.”

“Kieran glanced at her with shimmering eyes. Neither looked quite human: The black eye was too dark, the silver too metallic. And yet the overall effect was haunting, inhumanly beautiful.”

“You see, I do not want a body without a heart.”

“Why are you wearing a T-shirt under your other T-shirt?" Livvy asked.
"In case one of them is stolen," Marked said, as it were entirely normal.”

“And if there were two things he believed were limitless, it was love and imagination.”

“I read once that explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog," Mark said. "You find out how it works, but the frog dies in the process.”

“Everyone’s death means something”

“That is not love. That is debt.”

“Jace Herondale and Clary Fairchild ran the New York Institute.”

“Don't roll your eyes. It punctures my dramatic moment. I want my dramatic moment unpunctured.”

“I'm a Shadowhunter. Quip fast, die young.”

“Malcolm looked warily at her. 'She may be dangerous,' he said to Julian. 'Then again, all women are dangerous.”

“That's not the spirit of the law, Emma. Remember?"I thought it was 'the Law is annoying, but it is also flexible.”

“He bumped into a pay phone and said, 'Excuse me, miss,' on our way in," said Julian.

"It's polite to apologize," said Mark with the same small voice.

"Not to inanimate objects.”

“Vows of friendship and love are stronger”

“If she kissed him, would he taste like blood or cloves or a mixture of the two?”

“I love you, Julian Blackthorn. I love you more than starlight.”