The best quotes from "City of Glass"

City of Glass has got to be my favorite part in the entire series. I mean so many things fall into place and it's a beautiful feeling when things finally fall into place after so long. Anyway, I was really excited about posting these so let's get to it! 

Wasn't there some sort of manly code that precluded discussions like this-discussions about feelings?

-Simon, 

"The first time Simon had ever seen Isabel e, he'd found her so striking, so alight with life and vitality and energy, he'd thought he'd final y found a girl who burned bright enough to blot out the image of Clary that always seemed to be printed on the inside of his eyelids. It was right around the time she'd gotten him turned into a rat at Magnus Bane's loft party that he'd realized maybe Isabel e burned a little too bright for an ordinary guy like him"

-Simon

"it sucked to be old enough to want to know what was going on, but so young you were always dismissed."

"Because what was the point in crying when there was no one there to comfort you? And what was worse, when you couldn't even comfort yourself? "

-Clary 

"Hurting people he loved was almost as good as hurting himself when he was in this kind of mood. "

-Jace Herondale

"Actual y," said Samuel, "it is. One thing you'll learn as you get older, Simon, is that when people tel you something unpleasant about themselves, it's usual y true." 

-Hodge 

"She wanted to lean her head against him, wanted to feel his arms around her the way she'd wanted air when she was drowning in Lake Lyn. "

" had to try. And I did." His voice was lifeless. "But God knows, I don't want anyone but you. I don't even want to want anyone but you."

-Jace Herondale

"She supposed they were imperfections, these marks, but they didn't feel that way to her; they were a history, cut into his body: the map of a life of endless war. "

"She didn't like boys who looked as if they never got mad about anything. In Isabel e's world, rage equaled passion equaled a good time. "

-Izzy 

"And for a moment she closed her eyes, thinking of the way Alec had grabbed onto Jace the moment he'd seen him in the Hall , because that was what you did with family when you'd been worried about them, you grabbed them and held on to them and told them how much they'd pissed you off, and it was okay, because no matter how angry you got, they still belonged to you."

"People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but it's the way you live your life that matters. And the people you know. "

-Isabel Lightwood

"Unfortunately, you never really hate anyone as much as someone you cared about once. "

Every memory was valuable; even the bad ones.

-Clary 

"The Fair Folk, unlike humans, do not concern themselves overmuch with liking. Love, perhaps, and hate. Both are useful emotions. But liking..." She shrugged elegantly."

-The Seelie Queen 

"And now I'm looking at you," he said, "and you're asking me if I still want you, as if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has. I never dared give much of myself to anyone before-bits of myself to the Lightwoods, to Isabel e and Alec, but it took years to do it-but, Clary, since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me." 

-Jace Herondale 

""I'm just saying that I think I chose the way I did in part because of you. Since I've met you, everything I've done has been in part because of you. I can't untie myself from you, Clary-not my heart or my blood or my mind or any other part of me. And I don't want to." 

-Jace Herondale 

"Perhaps it was just that everything that was frightening wasn't necessarily also bad."

-Clary's Thoughts 

"I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands and wrote my will across the sky in stars.

-T. E. Lawrence"

"She was gazing up at the night sky, white stars like mirrors shining in the blackness, and leaning over her, the light in his eyes more brilliant than any of the stars, was Jace"

" She could ask for anything, she thought dizzily, anything-an end to pain or world hunger or disease, or for peace on earth. But then again, perhaps these things weren't in the power of angels to grant, or they would already have been granted. And perhaps people were supposed to find these things for themselves. "

-Clary's thoughts 

"Clary's eyes hurt trying to take all of him in, and yet he was all that she could see. "

"Now very much against her will , she thought of the way Jace had looked at her then, the blaze of faith in his eyes, his belief in her. He had always thought she was strong. He had showed it in everything he did, in every look and every touch. Simon had faith in her too, yet when he'd held her, it had been as if she were something fragile, something made of delicate glass. But Jace had held her with all the strength he had, never wondering if she could take it-he'd known she was as strong as he was. "

"The shock of seeing him was so enormous that it was almost no shock at all."

"He thought, suddenly, of Clary-Clary as he had last seen her, asleep, with her hair spread across the pillow and her cheek on her hand. He had thought then that he had never seen anything so peaceful in his life, but of course she had only been sleeping, like anyone else might sleep. It hadn't been her peace that had surprised him, but his own. The peace he felt at being with her was like"

"Power doesn't have to be unlimited to be deadly," Valentine said."

"Doing the right thing because you love someone sucks sometimes."

"It does," Magnus said, "at that."

"What did you think? That if I couldn't see the bad things, that meant they couldn't see me?"

"I thought it would only hurt you to know."

"Let me tel you something, Mom," Clary said. "Knowing is better than not knowing. Every time." "

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