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'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.

Everyone is afraid of something. We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people because we love them. We fear dying because we value being alive. Don't wish you didn't fear anything. All that would mean is that you didn't feel anything.

Mundane education is regrettably prosaic, - Jace Lightwood-Herondale

Jace?Yeah?How did you know I had Shadowhunter blood? Was there some way you could tell?The elevator arrived with a final groan. Jace unlatched the gate and slid it open. The inside reminded Clary of a birdcage, all black metal and decorative bits of gilt. I guessed, he said, latching the door behind them. It seemed like the most likely explanation.You guessed? You must have been pretty sure, considering you could have killed me.He pressed a button in the wall, and the elevator lurched into action with a vibrating groan that she felt all through the bones in her feet. 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 cracked across his face, a slap that rocked him back on his heels. He put a hand to his cheek, more in surprise than pain. What the hell was that for?The other ten percent, she said, and they rode the rest of the way down to the street in silence.

To make a true choice, we must have true knowledge.

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.