For the first time, he looked at her, and she wasn’t a stranger, she was Clary—his friend. His family. The girl he’d sworn always to protect. The girl he loved as fiercely as he loved himself.

That was the last cruel irony of Tobias’s life: that he doomed the woman he would have died to save.

Tobias loved her more than he’d loved anything—his family, his duty, even himself. There, perhaps, the Herondale blood ran true.

All of us lost something. Some of us lost everything.

Don’t worry, hero. If the vamp shows up, I’m here to protect you.”“Great, I can hide behind your massive ego.

Every student, Shadowhunter and mundane alike, knew the name Herondale. It was Jace’s last name. It was the name of heroes.

Every decision you make, makes you. Never let other people choose who you’re going to be.

When you took a man's job away from him, his ability to feed and clothe his family, that man was going to get angry.

Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.

You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library in the evening. Books are companions even if you don’t open them.

I've said that movies are the highest stakes make-believe game in the world, and this is truly the most highest stakes.

The act of exploring what the men are, and moreover the separation of the good from the evil, is visitation; and the good are then removed, and the evil are left behind.

A short time ago the demagogues blamed capitalism for the poverty of the masses. Today they rather blame capitalism for the "affluence" that it bestows upon the common man.

As long as you've done your best, making mistakes doesn't matter. You and I are human; we will mess up. What counts is learning from your mistakes and getting back up when life has knocked you down.