Shadowhunter Quotes


“Let me give you a piece of advice. The handsome young fellow who’s trying to rescue you from a hideous fate is never wrong. Not even if he says the sky is purple and made of hedgehogs.”


"I will answer to him, or I will answer to no one."  -

Camille (City of Fallen Angels)

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"What would you prefer? What did the count eat today, children? One helpless villager, two helpless villagers, three helpless villagers…"  -

Simon (City of Fallen Angels)

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"Alexander, I’ve been alive for hundereds of years. I’ve been with men, been with women—with faeries and warlocks and vampires, and even a djinn or two…Too much information."  -

Magnus (City of Fallen Angels)

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City of Bones - pg. 30 

Clary: I can’t believe she’s being like this. Like grounding me every other week wasn’t bad enough. Now I’m going to be exiled for the rest of the summer.

Simon: Well you know your mom gets like this sometimes. Like when she breathes in or out.

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City of Bones - pg. 33 

Clary: Maybe Eric should stick to gaming.

Simon: But then we’d have to find a new drummer.

Clary: Oh is that what Eric does? I thought he just mooched money off you and went around telling girls at school that he was in a band in order to impress them.

Simon: Not at all. Eric has turned over a new leaf. He has a girlfriend. They’ve been going out for three months.

Clary: Practically married.

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City of Ashes - pg. 311 

“So you’re Clary’s father,” he said. “No offence, but i can kind of see why she hates you.”
Valentines face was impassive, almost motionless. His lips barely moved as he said, “And why is that?”
“Because,” Simon said, “you’re clearly psychotic.” 

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City of Bones - pg. 106 

“Maybe I’m just a late developer,” Clary snapped. “And don’t leer at me, just because I said that.”

Jace assumed an injured air. “I wasn’t going to.”

“You were working up to a leer, I could tell.”

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"Hell hath no fury."  -

Jace (City of Ashes)

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"Furious Mole is not a good name for a band."  -

Clary (City of Bones)

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"You’d think there’d be some cabs. Where is everyone going at midnight on a Sunday?"  -

Clary (City of Bones)

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"Well, I’d hate to interrupt your pleasant night stroll with my sudden death."  -

Clary (City of Bones)

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"How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning?! How art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations."  -

City of Bones

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City of Bones - pg. 305 

“He has many things I haven’t got,” said Jace. “Like near-sightedness, bad posture, and an appalling lack of coordination.”

“You know,” Clary said, “most psychologists agree that hostility is really just sublimated sexual attraction.”

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"Come, my faux juggernaut, my nefarious loins! Slather every protuberance with arid zeal."  -

City of Bones

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