Quotes by Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

“Do people ever climb the demon towers? Like, for any reason?" Aline looked up. "Climb the demon towers?" She laughed. "No, no one ever does that. It's totally illegal, for one thing, and besides, w...”

“You're a disaster for us, Clary! You're a mundane, you'll always be one, you'll never be a Shadowhunter! You don't know how to think like we do, think about what's best for everyone-- all you think...”

“There's no pretending, I love you and I will love you until the day i die and if there's a life after that I will love you then.”

“I've always been told my presence brightened up any room. One might think that went doubly for dank underground cell." (Jace)”

“Of course, everyone's going to freak out when you show up at school.""Freak out? Why?""Because you're so much hotter now than when you left." She shrugged. "It's true. Must be a vampire thing."Simo...”

“He'll come back," Simon said again. "For you.”

“Ugh," he said after a few swallows. "Dead blood." Jace's eyebrows went up. " Isn't all blood dead?" "The longer the animal whose blood I'm drinking has been dead, the worse the blood tastes," Simon...”

“Patience, grasshopper," said Maia. "Good things come to those who wait.""I always thought that was 'Good things come to those who do the wave,'" said Simon. "No wonder I've been so confused all my ...”

“You know what I am." The words breathed out in an auguished whisper. "I'm part demon, Clary. Part demon. You understood that much, didn't you?" His eyes bored into her like drills. "You saw what Va...”

“Has there ever been an Inquisitor who didn't die a horrible death?" Simon wondered out loud. " It's like being the drummer in Spinal Tap.”

“Not everything is about you," Clary said furiously."Possibly," Jace said, "but you do have to admit that the majority of things are.”

“In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn't matter how hard it was to make it. It matters that you did.”

“The Law is hard, but it is the Law.”

“The first morning Simon had been at Amatis's house, a grinning lycanthrope had showed up on the doorstep with a live cat for him. "Blood," he'd said, in a heavily accented voice. "For you. Fresh!"S...”

“I don't have a reason to lie to you. Not now.' Jace's gaze remained steady. 'And quit baring your fangs at me. It's making me nervous.''Good,' Simon said. 'If you want to know why it's because you ...”

“Aline!" Isabelle looked appalled. "You can't just go around asking people what it's like to be a vampire.”

“What was the point in crying when there was no one to comfort you? And what was worse, when you couldn't even comfort yourself?”

“... We are Nephilim; we fight our own battles." "That's not precisely true, is it?" said a velvety voice. It was Magnus Bane, wearing a long and glittering coat, multiple hoops in his ears, and a r...”

“For a split second longer she stood motionless. Then, somehow, she had caught at the front of his shirt and pulled him toward her. His arms went around her, lifting her almost out of her sandals, a...”

“Whatever the Clave was discussing, the Council meeting was dragging on brutally late. But he knows New York. He doesnt know Alicante”