Book Quotes and Movie Quotes from The Mortal Instruments

If you never tell anyone the truth about yourself, eventually you start to forget (...). If I kept them all inside,my memories of them would start to diaappear,. And then I would disappear.

Everytime I think I'm missing a piece of me, you give it back.

Because the world isn't divided into the special and the ordinary.
Everyone has the potential to be extra ordinary. As long as you have a soul and free will, you can be anything, do anything, choose anything.

There are memories that time does not erase... Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.

'I don´t know why I ever helped you.'
'Because you like broken things.'

Temper us in fire and we grow strong. When we suffer, we survive.

You know, when most girls say they want a big rock, they don't mean, you know, literally a big rock.

This is about more than us.

The stories you were told about monsters, nightmares, legends whispered around campfires. They are all true.

I'm the one with Team Evil over here. You're Team Good. Keep it in mind.
-Clary

There might be a god, and there might not, but I don't think it matters, Clary. Either way, we're on our own.

If you were half as funny as you think you are, you'd be twice as funny as you are now.

He remembered the first time he’d kissed her, in the greenhouse, how he’d finally gotten it, finally understood the way someone’s mouth against yours could undo you, leave you spinning and breathless. That all the expertise in the world, any techniques you knew or had learned, went out the window when it was the right person you were kissing.