Mortal Instuments
"Is that why you haven't called me? Because I'm an idiot?"
Alec to Magnus
"I can offer you my life, but it is a short life; I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many more beats it shall sustain."
Jem
“The bad things can't matter more than the good things”
Cristina
“I wasn’t trying to drown myself,”
James
“I am the Prince's shield. I am his unbreakable armor. I bleed that he might not bleed. I suffer that he might never suffer. I die that he might live forever.”
Kel
"Does he normally just lie on the floor like that without moving?”
Magnus to gang
"They say you cannot love two people equally at once…and perhaps for others that is so."
Tessa
“Sometimes when you start a war, you want to make pancakes.”
Julian
"Because I wanted you to have a childhood, a thing I never had."
Alastair
"that for a religion that purports to worship a Goddess, who was once a powerful Queen, there are a great many men making decisions about what I, a woman, can read and do.”
Lin
"Well I could hardly talk down to you, your too short."
Jace to Clary
"Dear me such harsh truths so early in the morning cannot be good for the digestion."
Will
"I could slay with my deadly sense of humor and wicked charm."
Kit
"Death is a jealous mistress...She fights to keep you.”
Lucie
“Power is an illusion. Power exists because we believe it does. Kings and Queens—and yes, Princes—have power because we grant it to them.”
Connor
"That you freed a possible criminal by trading away your brother to a warlock who looks like a gay Sonic the Hedgehog and dresses like the Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?"
Simon to Isabell
"Is this one of those days where we all stalk out in a fury? Because I simply haven't got the energy for it.”
Jessamine
“There was beauty in the idea of freedom, but it was an illusion. Every human heart was chained by love.”
Mark
“We do not get to choose when in our lives we feel pain,"
Matthew
"Trust is like placing a blade in someone's hand and setting the point to your heart,"
Jerrod
"You can't forget the things you did in the past, or you'll never learn from them."
Kyle Jordan to Simon
"If you set yourself on fire deliberately, I will institute divorce proceedings."
Charlotte
"Cristina I love you... I will marry you. Marry you."
Emma
“You decide the truth about yourself. No one else. And the choice about what kind of person you will be is yours alone.”
Cordelia
“A gilded cage is still a cage.”
The Ragpicker King