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Clary Fairchild: Do you have to be so...

Jace Herondale: Unpleasant? Only on days when my adoptive mother tosses me out of the house with instructions never to darken her door again. Usually, I'm remarkably good-natured. Try me on any day that doesn't end in y.

Maryse Lightwood (to Jace): You are an arrow shot directly into the heart of the Clave, Jace. You are Valentine's arrow. Whether you know it or not.

Alec Lightwood: How do you manage never to get mud on you?

Izzy Lightwood: I'm pure at heart. It repels the dirt.

(Jace snorts and then wiggles his fingers covered in mud at her.)

Jace Herondale: Filthy inside and out.

Quote from The Mortal Instruments: City of Ashes | Jace Herondale: Are you still mad? Alec Lightwood: I'm not mad. Jace Herondale: Oh, yes you are. Alec Lightwood: I am not. Just because you said dragon demons were extinct... Jace Herondale: I said mostly extinct. Alec Lightwood: Mostly extinct, is NOT EXTINCT ENOUGH. Jace Herondale: I see. I'll just have them change the entry in the demonology textbook from "almost extinct" to "not extinct enough for Alec. He prefers his monsters really, really extinct."

Clary Fairchild: Are you testing what Alec said about some of these bikes being able to go underwater?

Jace Herondale: No. I think that's just a story.

Clary Fairchild: But, Jace, all the stories are true.

Jace Herondale: Fine. I'll go with you. You don't have to tell me good things about your mother. (he's talking about Jocelyn) I already know them.

Clary Fairchild: Do you?

Jace Herondale: She raised you, didn't she?

Quote from The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones | Alec Lightwood: I should have guessed you were Jace's sister. You both have the same artistic talent. Clary Fairchild (shocked): Jace can draw? Alec Lightwood (chuckles): Nah. I was just kidding. He can't draw a straight line.

Quote from The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones | Clary Fairchild (to Alec): So Magnus fixed you? Luke said... Izzy Lightwood: He did! It was so awesome. He showed up and ordered everyone out of the room and shut the door. Blue and red sparks kept exploding out into the hallway from underneath the floor. Alec Lightwood: I don't remember any of it. Izzy Lightwood: Then he sat by Alec's bed all night and into the morning to make sure he woke up okay. Alec Lightwood: I don't remember that, either. (Says Alec hastily and Izzy smiles)

Brother Jeremiah: You cannot save others until you first save yourself.

Clary Fairchild: This fortune-cookie stuff is getting really old...

Valentine Morgenstern: We'll be together there, as we should be.

Clary's thoughts: That sounds terrific. Just you, your comatose wife, your shell-shocked son, and your daughter who hates your guts. Not to mention that your two kids may be in love with each other. Yeah, that sounds like a perfect family reunion.

Clary Fairchild: So when the moon's only partly full, you only feel a little wolfy?

Luke Garroway: You could say that.

Clary Fairchild: Well, you can go ahead and hang your head out the car window if you feel like it.

Luke Garroway (laughs): I'm a werewolf, not a golden retriever.

Luke Garroway: Hugin and Munin were Valentine's pet birds. Their names mean "Thought" and "Memory."

Clary Fairchild: Well, they should mean "Attack" and "Kill." Hugo almost tore my eyes out.

Luke Garroway: That's what he's trained to do.

Clary Fairchild (to Luke): Don't get upset? You're telling me that my dad is a guy who's basically an evil overlord, and you want me not to get upset?

Jace Herondale: I may not believe in sin, but I do feel guilt. We Shadowhunters live by a code, and that code isn't flexible. Honor, fault, penance, those are real to us, and they have nothing to do with religion and everything to do with who we are. This is who I am, Clary. I am one of the Clave. It's in my blood and bones.

Dorothea Rollins: Didn't I read your tea leaves, Shadowhunter? Have you fallen in love with the wrong person yet?

Jace Herondale: Unfortunately, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remains myself.

Dorothea Rollins: At least, you don't have to worry about rejection, Jace Wayland.

Jace Herondale: Not necessarily. I turn myself down occasionally, just to keep it interesting.

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