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Clary Fairchild: Do I need any weapons? Do you?

Izzy Lightwood: I've got plenty. (shows Clary her anklets) These, for instance. The left one is electrum, which is poisonous to demons, and the right one is blessed iron, in case I run across any unfriendly vampires or even faeries, faeries hate iron. They both have strength runes carved into them, so I can pack a hell of a kick.

Clary Fairchild: Demon-hunting and fashion. I never would have thought they went together.”

Izzy Lightwood: You'd be surprised.

Clary Fairchild: Isabelle, can I ask you something?

Izzy Lightwood: Sure.

Clary Fairchild: Is Alec gay?

Izzy Lightwood: How did you guess?

Clary Fairchild: I...

Izzy Lightwood: You absolutely can't tell anyone.

Clary Fairchild: Not even Jace?

Izzy Lightwood: Especially not Jace!

Clary Fairchild: All right. I guess I didn't realize it was such a big deal.

Izzy Lightwood: It would be to my parents. They would disown him and throw him out of the Clave...

Clary Fairchild: What, you can't be gay and a Shadowhunter?

Izzy Lightwood: There's no official rule about it. But people don't like it. I mean, less with people our age—I think... But the older generation, no. If it happens, you don't talk about it.

(Izzy gives Clary her clothes to try on...)

Clary Fairchild: If it's this short on me, how short must it be on you?

Izzy Lightwood: On me it's a shirt.

Clary Fairchild (about Downworlders): So they're good enough to let live, good enough to make your food for you, good enough to flirt with—but not really good enough? I mean, not as good as people.

Alec Lightwood: This place is full of Downworlders. You know that. I think you should try to keep the details of our investigation secret.

Izzy Lightwood: Investigation? Now we're detectives? Maybe we should all have code names.

Jace Herondale: Good idea, I shall be Baron Hotschaft Von Hugenstein.

(Alec spits out water that he's been drinking)

Jace Herondale (to Clary): Don't order any of the faerie food. It tends to make humans a little crazy. One minute you're munching a faerie plum, the next minute you're running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not, that this has ever happened to me.

Quote from The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones | (Clary injured her arm...) Clary Fairchild: Is this when you start tearing strips off your T-shirt to bind up my wound? Jace Herondale: If you wanted me to rip my clothes off, you should have just asked. It would have been a lot less painful.

Quote from The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones | Clary Fairchild: Don't talk down to me. Jace Herondale: Well, I could hardly talk up to you. You're too short.

(There is a statue of an angel holding a cup and on the base there is an inscription: 1234 - NEPHILIM: FACILIS DESCENSUS AVERNO.)

Clary Fairchild: Is that meant to be the Mortal Cup?

Jace Herondale (nods): And that's the motto of the Nephilim, the Shadowhunters, there on the base.

Clary Fairchild: What does it mean?

Jace Herondale: It means "Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of our Enemies Since 1234."

Brother Jeremiah: It means... "The descent into Hell is easy."

Clary Fairchild: Nice and cheery.

Jace Herondale: We haven't had the Cup for years now, and a lot of us die young. So our numbers slowly dwindle.

Clary Fairchild: Aren't you, uh... Reproducing?

(Jace laughs)

Jace Herondale: Sure. We love reproducing. It's one of our favorite things.

Jace Herondale (to Clary): You just have to meet Brother Jeremiah. That's all. You might even like him. He's got a great sense of humor for a guy who never says anything.

Quote from The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones | Izzy Lightwood: Dinnertime! Sorry if I'm interrupting. Jace Herondale: Dear God, the dread hour is nigh. Hodge Starkweather: I—I—I had a very filling breakfast, I mean lunch. A filling lunch. I couldn't possibly eat... Izzy Lightwood: I threw out the soup and ordered Chinese from that place downtown. Jace Herondale: Great. I'm starved. Hodge Starkweather: I might be able to eat a bite. Izzy Lightwood: You two are terrible liars.

Clary Fairchild: Does Isabelle always make dinner for you?

Jace Herondale: No, thank God. Most of the time the Lightwoods are here and Maryse, that's Isabelle's mother, she cooks for us. She's an amazing cook.

Clary Fairchild: Then how come she never taught Isabelle?

Jace Herondale: Because, it's only been recently that women have been Shadowhunters along with men. I mean, there have always been women in the Clave—mastering the runes, creating weaponry, teaching the Killing Arts—but only a few were warriors, ones with exceptional abilities. They had to fight to be trained. Maryse was a part of the first generation of Clave women who were trained as a matter of course—and I think she never taught Isabelle how to cook because she was afraid that if she did, Isabelle would be relegated to the kitchen permanently.

Clary Fairchild: Would she have been?

Jace Herondale: Not Isabelle. She's one of the best Shadowhunters I've ever known.

Clary Fairchild: Why are you always such an asshat?

Jace Herondale: An asshat?

Clary Fairchild: What you said to Simon...

Jace Herondale: I was trying to save him some pain. Isabelle will cut out his heart and walk all over it in high-heeled boots. That's what she does to boys like that.

Jace Herondale: You'll be the first mundane who has ever been inside the Institute.

Simon Lewis: Probably the smell keeps the rest of them away.

Clary Fairchild (to Jace): Ignore him. He always says exactly what comes into his head. No filters.

Simon Lewis: Filters are for cigarettes and coffee. Two things I could use right now, incidentally.

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