“She'd never have allowed herself to be held by anything as mundane as a few bars and a reinforced door”

“If Morrow worked with herself she'd try and sit a few desks away.”

“She'd always had such contempt for mundanes, the way all Shadowhunters did--she'd believed that they were soft, stupid, sheeplike in their complacency. Now she wondered if all that hatred didn't just stem from the fact that she was jealous. It must be nice not worrying that every time one of your family members walked out the door, they'd never come back.”

“She knew this transition was not about becoming someone better, but about finally allowing herself to become who she'd always been.”

“She'd become a governess. It was one of the few jobs a known lady could do.And she'd taken to it well. She'd sworn that if she did indeed ever findherself dancing on rooftops with chimney sweeps she'd beat herself to death with her own umbrella.”

“but it was also something in Sandy herself, an unwillingness to allow anything more to upset the realm of her understanding.”