"The greatest guilt of today is that of people who accept collectivism by moral default; the people who seek protection from the necessity of taking a stand, by refusing to admit to themselves the nature of that which they are accepting; the people who support plans specifically designed to achieve serfdom, but hide behind the empty assertion that they are lovers of freedom, with no concrete meaning attached to the word; the people who believe that the content of ideas need not be examined, that principles need not be defined, and that facts can be eliminated by keeping one's eyes shut. They expect, when they find themselves in a world of bloody ruins and concentration camps, to escape moral responsibility by wailing: "But I didn't mean this!"
— Ayn Rand

"Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?"
— Anthony Burgess (A Clockwork Orange)

"I was thinking about the first time I ever saw you," he said, "and how after that I couldn't forget you. I wanted to, but I couldn't stop myself. I forced Hodge to let me be the one who came to find you and bring you back to the Institue. And even back then, in that stupid coffee shop, when I saw you sitting on that couch with Simon, even then that felt wrong to me-- I should have been the one sitting with you. The one who made you laugh like that. I couldn't get rid of that feeling. That it should have been me. And the more I knew you, the more I felt it--it had never been like that for me before. I'd always wanted a girl and then gotten to know her and not wanted her anymore, but with you the feeling just got stronger and stronger until that night when you showed up at Renwick's and I knew."
— Cassandra Clare (City of Glass)

""I am a man" he told her, " and men do not consume pink beverages. Get thee gone, woman, and bring me something brown." Jace, City of Glass, Mortal Instruments
"
— Cassandra Clare

""You said you were going for a walk!? What kind of walk takes six hours?"
""A long one?"
-Alec and Jace (mortal Instruments, City of Glass)"
— Cassandra Clare (City of Glass)

"You can only push the truth down for so long, and then it bubbles back up."
— Cassandra Clare (City of Glass)

""I wouldn't change it," Simon said. "I wouldn't give up loving you. Not for anything." "
— Cassandra Clare (City of Glass)

""I wouldn't change it," Simon said. "I wouldn't give up loving you. Not for anything. You know what Raphael told me? That I didn't know how to be a good vampire, that vampires accept that they're dead. But as long as I remember what it was like to love you, I'll always feel like I'm alive." "
— Cassandra Clare (City of Glass)

"She looked out then, through the crowd, and saw Simon with the Lightwoods, looking at her across the empty space that separated them. It was the same way that Jace had looked at her at the manor. It was the one thread that bound these two boys that she loved so much, she thought, their one commonality: They both believed in her even when she didn't believe in herself. "
— Cassandra Clare (City of Glass)

""People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but it's the way you live your life that matters.""
— Cassandra Clare (City of Glass)

""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." "
— Cassandra Clare (City of Glass)

"'I was ninety percent sure'
'I see' Clary said. There must have been something in her voice because he turned to look at her. Her hand crossed across his face, a slap that rocked him back on his heels. He put his hands on his cheek, more in surprise than pain.
'What the hell was that for?'
'The other ten percent'"
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)

"It's the mortal cup Jace, not the mortal toilet bowl."
— Cassandra Clare

"Just kissing? How quickly you dismiss out love.
-Jace"
— Cassandra Clare

"‘Well, I’m not kissing the mundane,’ said Jace. ‘I’d rather stay down here and rot.’
‘Forever?’ said Simon. ‘Forever’s an awfully long time.’
Jace raised his eyebrows. ‘I knew it,’ he said. ‘You want to kiss me, don’t you?’
"
— Cassandra Clare (City of Ashes)

""Look," Luke went on, "In all the years I've known him, there's always been exactly one place Simon wanted to be, and he's always fought like hell to make sure he got there and stayed there."
"Where's that?"
"Wherever you were.""
— Cassandra Clare (City of Ashes)

"Pain lanced through his neck. He gasped and his eyes flew open; Simon was sitting up on him, staring down with wide eyes, his hand across his own mouth. Simon's wounds were gone, though fresh blood stained the front of his shirt.
Jace could feel the pain of his bruised shoulders again, the slash across his wrist, his punctured throat. He could no longer hear his heart beating, but he knew it was slamming away inside his chest.
Simon took his hand away from his mouth. The fangs were gone. "I could have killed you," he said. There was a sort of pleading in his voice.
"I would have let you," said Jace."
— Cassandra Clare (City of Ashes)

""Maybe I could love you someday."
"If you ever do," he said, "come and let me know. You know where to find me."
Her teeth were chattering harder. "I can't lose you, Simon. I can't."
"You never will. I'm not leaving you. But I'd rather have what we have, which is real and true and important, than have you pretend anything else. When I'm with you, I want to know I'm with the real you, the real Clary."
She leaned her head against his, closing her eyes. He still felt like Simon, despite everything; still smelled like him, like his laundry soap. "Maybe I don't know who that is."
"But I do.""
— Cassandra Clare (City of Ashes)

"Clary blinked momentarily caught off gaurd. "What?"
"I said his poetry was terribl. It sounds like he ate a dictionary and started vomiting up words at random.""
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)

"Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt. "
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)

"If you were half as funny as you think you are, you'd be twice as funny as you are now."
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)

""Are you the one with the blue eyes?"

"Actually, my eyes are usually described as golden...and luminous.""
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)

" "I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teeenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead."
"Well," said Luke, "you're doing a vantastic job.""
— Cassandra Clare (City of Ashes)

""The Angel blade burns you, just as God's name chokes you," said Valentine, his cool voice sharp as crystal. "They say that those who die upon its point will achieve the gates of heaven. In which case, revenant, I am doing you a favor." He lowered the blade so that the tip touched Simon's throat. Valentine's eyes were the color of black water and there was nothing in them: no anger, no compassion, not even any hate. They were empty as a hollowed-out grave. "Any last words?"
Simon knew what he was supposed to say. Sh'ma Yisrael, adonai elohanu, adonai echod. Hear, oh Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One. He tried to speak the words, but a searing pain burned his throat.
"Clary," he whispered instead."
— Cassandra Clare (City of Ashes)

"'Don't tell me,' Jace said,'Simon's turned himself into an ocelot and you want me to do something about it before Isabelle makes him into a stole. Well, you'll have have to wait till tomarrow. I'm out of commission.' He pointed at himself-he was wearing blue pajamas with a hole in the sleeve.'Look. Jammies.'

'Jace,' Clary said,'this is important.'

'Don't tell me,' he said.'You've got a drawing emergency. You Need a nude model. Well, I'm not in the mood. You could always ask Hodge,' he said as an afterthought. 'I hear he'll do anything for a -'

'JACE!' she interrupted him, her voice rising to a scream.'JUST SHUT UP FOR A SECOUND AND LISTEN, WILL YOU?'

He blinked."
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)

"'well there goes my plan for selling them on eBay.'Clary muttered.
'Selling them on what?'
Clary smiled blandly at him. 'A mythical place of great magical power.'"
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)

"'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 life.'"
— Cassandra Clare (City of Glass)

"And I'm suppose to sit by while you date boys and fall in love with someone else, get married...?" His voice tightened. "And meanwhile, I'll die a little bit more every day, watching."
— Cassandra Clare (City of Glass)

"Not everything is about you," Clary said furiously.
"Possibly," Jace said, "but you do have to admit that the majority of things are."
— Cassandra Clare (City of Glass)

"Is standing by the window muttering about blood somethign he does often?'
-Simon

'No, sometimes he sits on the couch and does it.'
-Jace"
— Cassandra Clare (City of Ashes)

"Where there is love, there is often also hate. They can exist side by side."
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)

"Sorry, are you telling me that your demon-slaying buddies need to be driven to their next assignment with the forces of darkness by my mom?"
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)

"It means 'Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of our Enemies Since 1234.'""
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)

"No, I'm just a very naughty boy. I do all sorts of bad things. I kick kittens. I make rude gestures at nuns."
— Cassandra Clare (City of Ashes)

"Mom. I have something to tell you. I’m undead. Now, I know you may have some preconceived notions about the undead. I know you may not be comfortable with the idea of me being undead. But I’m here to tell you that undead are just like you and me…Well, okay. Possibly more like me than you.
-Simon"
— Cassandra Clare (City of Ashes)

""When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, and then throw it in the
face of the person who gave you the lemons until they give you the
oranges you originally asked for."
"
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)

"Jace: You could have fooled me. Everytime I called you, Luke said you were sick. I figured you were avoiding me. Again.

Clary: I wasn't. I did want to talk to you. I've been thinking about you all the time.

Jace: I've been thinking about you, too.

Clary: I really was sick. I swear. I almost died back there on the ship, you know.

Jace: I know. Every time you almost die, I almost die my self.

<comment: aww...super cheesy!!!>"
— Cassandra Clare (City of Ashes)

"He looked back at her, and when she saw the look on his face, she saw his eyes at Renwick’s, when he had watched the Portal that separated him from his home shatter into a thousand irretrievable pieces. He held her gaze for a split second, then looked away from her, the muscles in his throat working. "
— Cassandra Clare (City of Ashes)

"He'd felt like a jack-o-lantern for the past few days, as if his guts had been yanked out with a fork and dumped in a heap while a grinning smile stayed plastered on his face."
— Cassandra Clare (City of Ashes)

"Alec: You're Valentine's son. I'm sure you're the one the Queen really wants to see. Besides, you're charming.
(Jace glares at him)
Alec: Maybe not at the moment."
— Cassandra Clare (City of Ashes)

"Watching Jace hug Isabelle, [Clary] tried to school her features into a happy and loving expression.
Simon: Are you all right? Your eyes are crossing."
— Cassandra Clare (City of Ashes)

""Look on the bright side," said Simon, "If they need a human sacrifice, you can always offer me. I'm not sure the rest of you qualify anyway.""
— Cassandra Clare (City of Ashes)

"Clary: We need to talk. All of us About what we're going to do now.
Jace: I was going to watch Project Runway."
— Cassandra Clare (City of Ashes)

"Isabelle drifted over, Jace a pace behind her. She was wearing a long black dress with boots and an even longer cutaway coat of soft green velvet, the color of moss. "I can't believe you did it!" she exclaimed. "How did you get Magnus to let Jace leave?"

"Traded him for Alec," Clary said.

Isabelle looked mildly alarmed. "Not permanently?"

"No," said Jace. "Just for a few hours. Unless I don't come back," he added thoughtfully. "In which case, maybe he does get to keep Alec. Think of it as a lease with an option to buy."

Isabelle looked dubious. "Mom and Dad won't be pleased if they find out."

"That you freed a possible criminal by trading away your brother to a warlock who looks like a gay Sonic the Hedgehog and dresses like the Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?" Simon inquired. "No, probably not.""
— Cassandra Clare (City of Ashes)

"Usually I'm remarkably good natured. Try me on a day that doesn't end in y.
-Jace"
— Cassandra Clare

"There is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then."
— Cassandra Clare (City of Glass)

"'...Have you fallen in love with the wrong person yet?'
Jace said, "Unfortunately, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remains myself."
..."At least," she said, "you don't have to worry about rejection, Jace Wayland."
"Not necessarily. I turn myself down occasionally, just to keep it interesting.""
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)

""Don't." Clary raised a warning hand. "I'm not really in the mood right now."

"That's got to be the first time a girl's ever said that to me," Jace mused"
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)

"Clary: "Don't stop there. I suppose there are also, what, vampires and werewolves and zombies?"
Jace: "Of course there are. Although you mostly find zombies farther south, where the voudun priests are."
Clary: "What about mummies? Do they only hang around Egypt?"
Jace: "Don't be ridiculous. No one believes in mummies.""
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)

""Just because you call an electric eel a rubber duck doesn't make it a rubber
duck, does it? And God help the poor bastard who decides they want to take a bath with the duckie." - Jace"
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)