Whatever you are physically, male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy – all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. Whatever the color, the shape, the design of the shade that conceals it, the flame inside the lamp remains the same. You are that flame.

There is nothing more important than love. And no law higher.' - Malcolm Fade.

Simon was still trying to work out how Shadowhunter government and also Shadowhunter family trees worked. They all seemed to be related to each other and it was very disturbing.

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

Isabelle!' he called again. 'Let down your raven hair!''Oh my God,' Clary muttered. 'There was something in that blood Raphael gave you, wasn't there? I'm going to kill him.

Everybody in this academy, Shadowhunters and mundanes, people with the Sight and without it, every one of them is looking to be a hero. We are all hoping for it, and trying for it, and soon we will all be bleeding for it.

Jace broke off the kiss and stepped back with an exhale; before Clary could say anything, a chorus of sarcastic applause broke out from the nearby hill. Simon, Isabelle, and Alec waved at them. Jace bowed while Clary stepped back slightly sheepishly, hooking her thumbs into the belt of her jeansJace sighed. 'Shall we join our annoying, voyeuristic friends?'Unfortunately, that's the only kind of friends we have.

There's something about a place you've been with someone you love. It takes on a meaning in your mind. It becomes more than a place. It becomes a distillation of what you felt for each other. The moments you spend in a place with someone... They become part of its bricks and mortar. Part of its soul.

Don't you think 'Mark is kind of a weird name for a Shadowhunter?' Julian was saying as Emma approached. 'I mean, if you really think about it. It's confusing. 'Put a Mark on me, Mark.

He could sleep in the ruins of cities lost for centuries.