Jace Wayland Quotes

″‘You won’t hurt him,‘whispered Hodge. ‘You swore you wouldn’t hurt him.’

“I said his poetry was terrible. It sounds like he ate a dictionary and started vomiting up words at random.”

“There’s Ravener poison coursing through your veins right now. you’ll be dead in an hour if you don’t come with me.”

“His eyes, fixed on Jace, seemed to burn. Between his teeth, he hissed, ‘So be it. The Forsaken will take you all.‘”

“I understand enough. [...] I understand that Jace trusted you and you traded him away to a man who hated his father and probably hates Jace, too, just because you’re too cowardly to live with a curse you deserved.”

“Why mundanes always insist on taking responsibility for things that aren’t their fault is a mystery to me. You didn’t force that cocktail down his idiotic throat.”

″‘That we wound up in Pandemonium the same night that Jace and the others just happened to be there, pursuing a demon? The night before Valentine came for my mother?’ Simon shook his head. ‘I don’t believe in coincidences,’ he said.”

″‘Just because you said dragon demons were extinct-’ ‘I said mostly extinct.’ Alec jabbed a finger toward him. ‘Mostly extinct,’ he said, his voice trembling with rage, ‘is NOT EXTINCT ENOUGH.‘”

″‘I don’t want to be a man,’ said Jace. ‘I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can’t confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead.‘”

″‘Well, I’m not kissing the mundane,’ said Jace. ‘I’d rather stay down here and rot.‘”

“Things are changing. The Laws are changing. The old ways may never be the right ways again.”

“Clary, since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me.”

″‘When you told me the first time that Valentine was your father, I didn’t believe it,’ she said. ‘Not just because I didn’t want it to be true, but because you weren’t anything like him. But you are. You are.‘”

“I’ve heard the word ‘fear’. I simply choose to believe it doesn’t apply to me.”

“Love makes us liars.′

″‘There is no pretending,’ Jace said with absolute clarity. ‘I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I’ll love you then.‘”

″‘You could have had anything else in the world, and you asked for me.’ She smiled up at him. Filthy as he was, covered in blood and dirt, he was the most beautiful thing she’d ever seen. ‘But I don’t want anything else in the world.‘”

″‘That does it,’ said Jace. ‘I’m going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year.’ ‘Why?’ Isabelle said. ‘So you can look up ‘fun.’ I’m not sure you know what it means.‘”

“The smoke rose in a lazy spiral, tracing delicate lines of black across the clear air. Jace, alone on the hill overlooking the cemetery, sat with his elbows on his knees and watched the smoke drift heavenward. The irony wasn’t lost on him: These were his father’s remains, after all.”