“Every teenager in the world feels like that, feels broken or out of place, different somehow, royalty mistakenly born into a family of peasants. The difference in your case is that it's true.”

“All my life I've felt like there was something wrong with me. Something missing or damaged.""Every teenager in the world feels like that, feels broken or out of place, different somehow, royalty mistakenly born into a family of peasants.”

“Clary, you're an artist, like your mother. That means you see the world in ways that other people don't. It's your gift, to see the beauty and the horror in ordinary things. It doesn't make you crazy — just different. There's nothing wrong with being different.”

“We cant go around picking up every pile of dust in the place just in case it turns out to be Gregor in the morning."-Pg.242-”

“It's your gift, to see the beauty and the horror in ordinary things. It doesn't make you crazy, just different.”

“Well you can go ahead and hand your head out the window if you feel like it""I'm a werewolf not a golden retriever”

“It's been so long that I think I was unsettled by the idea of feeling like I belonged anywhere. But you made me feel like I belong.”