Quotes About Mundanes

#1. Is there some particular reason that you're here?" ...
"Not this again."
"Not what again?" said Clary.
"Every time I annoy him, he retreats into his No Mundanes Allowed tree house." Simon pointed at Jace.

Cassandra Clare

#2. Tell me, is he always really rude, or does he save that for mundanes?"
"Oh, he's rude to everyone," said Isabelle airily. "It's what makes him so damn sexy. That and he's killed more demons than anyone else his age.

Cassandra Clare

#3. Emma followed his gaze to the brightly painted stand where people competed to see who could toss a plastic ring and land it around the neck of one of a dozen lined-up bottles. She tried not to feel superior that this was apparently something mundanes found difficult.

Cassandra Clare

#4. Mundanes who involve themselves in things they know nothing about are likely to meet unpleasant endings.

Cassandra Clare

#5. Sometimes we forget to appreciate the things that truly matter because our vision is so clouded by all of the mundanes. The here and now become our obsession , and we forget the concept of our finite state because with all the little things vying for our attention it feels like we'll go on forever.

Lynetta Halat

#6. Only mundanes say they're sorry when what they mean is "I share your grief,"' Jace observed.

Cassandra Clare

#7. The mundanes put their faith in their paper money, and when that turns to ash, the world will turn upside down.

Cassandra Clare

#8. What is it about mundanes and their overwhelming compulsion to state the obvious?

Cassandra Clare

#9. But I have made a study of Shadowhunters now, over the past century, and let me tell you that we are more human than most human beings. When our hearts break, they break into shards that cannot be easily fit back together. I envy mundanes their resilience sometimes.

Cassandra Clare

#10. Since the demon threat is invisible to mundanes, they must assign the threat to others of their own kind. They place the face of their enemy onto the face of their neighbor, and thus are generations of misery assured.

-Valentine Morgenstern

Cassandra Clare

#11. I'm so sorry, Jace." His eyes gleamed in the darkness. "I don't understand why mundanes always apologize for things that aren't their fault." "I'm not apologizing. It's a way of - empathizing. Of saying that I'm sorry you're unhappy.

Cassandra Clare

#12. 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.
-Jace, pg.241-

Cassandra Clare

#13. She herself was of the opinion that there would have been no need for a wish consultant if grammar had been taught properly in schools, so that mundanes could be trained to mean exactly what they said. Not wishing to be rude to her guest, however, she kept this opinion to herself.

P.B. Kerr

#14. He had sworn long ago that no one would ever change him - not the mundanes who hated him for one thing, or the Shadowhunters currently hunting him for another.

Cassandra Clare

#15. Every time I annoy him, he retreats into his No Mundanes Allowed treehouse.

Cassandra Clare

#16. My dad is a very snappy dresser; he gets all his stuff tailored. He's an architect, so he's a little more artistically minded.

Mindy Kaling

#17. You can survive alone, or you can *live* together. I know which option William would chose - has chosen," he said, shaking me as if he wished he could shake some sense into me. "You have to make your choice.

Nicole Williams

#18. She had thought herself trapped in a place outside the ordinary feeling lives of people; she had not noticed how many other people were trapped in that same place.

Kristin Cashore

#19. There's no point in getting frustrated at yourself. Just be truthful.

Frederick Lenz

#20. If they stop loving, be grateful for that.

Frederick Lenz

#21. You need simplicity to create complexity

Tarryn Fisher

#22. Until the '90s, major labels were looking for a certain look. This Sony guy told me I was 'too black, too fat, too short, and too old.' Told me to go and bleach my skin. Told me to step in the background and just stay back. I had the voice, but I didn't have the looks.

Sharon Jones

#23. I did everything but drink the bong water when I was young.

Dana Rohrabacher

#24. Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.

George Herbert

#25. My dad's a sound designer, and he used to take me to work with him.

Emilia Clarke

#26. Every student, Shadowhunter and mundane alike, knew the name Herondale. It was Jace's last name. It was the name of heroes.

Cassandra Clare

#27. You've got to be careful smoking weed. It causes memory loss. And also, it causes memory loss.

David Letterman

#28. I tend to find characters who lack vulnerability dull.

Trenton Lee Stewart

#29. And tell them what?" Jace said witheringly. "That invisible people are bothering you? Trust me, little girl, the police aren't going to arrest someone they can't see

Cassandra Clare

#30. In this country, we were not into detail. Europe developed detail." "Why do you think that is?" "Weather. The whole history of England consists of finding things to do out of the weather. Which tells you why Russia was even worse. That's why Russian novels have 182 characters: bad weather.

Ken Jennings

#31. The realization that we were so near to victory made life become very dear to me. I felt near home!

William Arthur Sirmon