18 quotes
"Straight people. Why can't they control themselves?"
City of Heavenly Fire (2014)
"Weapons, when they break and are mended, can be stronger at the mended places. Perhaps hearts are the same."
City of Heavenly Fire (2014)
"Defining relationships over here? I see that even as the world plunges into darkness and peril, you two stand around discussing your love lives. Teenagers."
City of Heavenly Fire (2014)
"If you flinch from it, you give it power over you. Take it, and cut your brother's throat with it, and take back the honor of your blood."
City of Heavenly Fire (2014)
"Jace Herondale. Once more a Herondale is the bringer of my deliverance. I should have anticipated."
City of Heavenly Fire (2014)
"I have to buy Hanukkah presents. It's mandated by Jewish law. The God of the Jews is an angry God. And very gift-oriented."
City of Heavenly Fire (2014)
"Heroes aren't always the ones who win. They're the ones who lose, sometimes. But they keep fighting, they keep coming back. They don't give up. That's what makes them heroes."
City of Heavenly Fire (2014)
"Brother Zachariah. Months January through December of the Hot Silent Brothers Calendar."
City of Heavenly Fire (2014)
"Are we long-lost friends, by chance?"
"No, we never got along all that well. Long-lost acquaintances? Compadres? My cat liked you."
City of Heavenly Fire (2014)
"Has anyone seen Church? I think Zachariah just stole our cat. I swear I saw him putting Church in the backseat of a car."
City of Heavenly Fire (2014)
"I'm sorry. It's just-- you know me. I only have two reactions to bad news. Uncontrollable rage and then a sharp left turn into boiling self-hatred."
City of Heavenly Fire (2014)
"Herondales. I had almost forgotten. No other family does so much for love, or feels so much guilt for it. Don't carry the weight of the world on you, Jace. It's too heavy for even a Herondale to bear."
City of Heavenly Fire (2014)
"Warlocks are independent. And hard to get hold of. Like cats, but with fewer tails. Well, there are some tails. I don't have one myself--"
City of Heavenly Fire (2014)
Jace Herondale and Alec Lightwood, pg. 33
City of Heavenly Fire (2014)
"I know Shadowhunters. I have for a long time. You are odd creatures. All fragile nobility and humanity on one side, and all the thoughtless fire of angels on the other. You especially, Herondale, for you have the fire of angels in your blood."
City of Heavenly Fire (2014)
"'Sure, he likes you,' said Alec. 'You're heterosexual and have low expectations of father figures.'
'I think they'll probably put that on my gravestone. "He Was Heterosexual and Had Low Expectations."'"
City of Heavenly Fire (2014)
"The first time you saw me, I bet you didn't think, He's going to get me killed."
"The first time I saw you, I wished you'd go back to Idris. You know I don't like change."
"I grew on you, though."
"Eventually. Like a moss, or a skin disease."
City of Heavenly Fire (2014)
"Is our strategy when we actually see him still 'trust me,' by the way?"
"It's still 'trust me.'"
"Oh, good. For a second there I was worried there was going to be an actual plan with, like, steps we could follow. You know, something reassuring."
City of Heavenly Fire (2014)