“How strange to have the power to literally transform yourself into other people, and yet be so unable to put yourself in their place.”

“And maybe you should stop pitying yourself,” he said. “Most people are lucky to have even one great love in their life. You have found two.”

“The love a parent had for a child, there is nothing else like it. No other love so consuming. No father-not even Valentine-would sacrifice his son for a hunk of metal, no matter how powerful.” (The Inquisitor)“You don’t know my father. He‘ll laugh in your face and offer you some money to mail my body back to Idris.” (Jace)“Don’t be absurd-”“You‘re right,” Jace said. “Come to think of it, he‘ll probably make you pay the shipping charges yourself.”

“Why do you do these things to yourself? Not just what you did to the window, but the way you talked to Clary. What are you punishing yourself for? You can't help how you feel.”

“Drowning yourself won't help, she told herself sternly. Now, drowning Will, on the other hand...”

“This is your true self, Tessa. This power is who you are. Whoever loves you now - and you must also love yourself - will love the truth of you.”

“But if you can't tell the truth to the people you care about the most, eventually you stop being able to tell the truth to yourself.”