Shadowhunter Academy Quotes

#1. Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy.

Cassandra Clare

#2. Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy, said Catarina Loss, her voice gentle. They

Cassandra Clare

#3. I always dreamed of making it in baseball, but life has moved pretty quickly for me.

Mike Trout

#4. That could be made into a sad song, Simon supposed. 'If they are eggs, why are they gray? Who can say, who can say?'
Admittedly, "Why Are the Eggs So Gray?" might not be a big hit, even on the hipster circuit.

Cassandra Clare

#5. What's next? You want to convince me they're making another crap Last Airbender movie?

Cassandra Clare

#6. This time he was dreaming of a VIP room backstage at the club, filled with champagne and coffee, a gaggle of groupies trying to break down the door so that - in the dream, Simon somehow knew this was their intent - they could tear of his clothes and ravish him.

Cassandra Clare

#7. Divided we stand,' Simon thought, his stubborn biceps refusing to bulge. 'United we do push-ups.

Cassandra Clare

#8. He'd probably been born with abs. Some were born with abs, some achieved abs, and some - like Simon - had abs thrust upon them by cruel instructors.

Cassandra Clare

#9. I don't take the camera out with me. My eyes are the camera for me every day.

Patrick Demarchelier

#10. It's Isabelle," George said.
Simon leaped out of bed - or, gallantly tried to, at least. He got a bit tangled in his sheets, so it was more like he tumbled-twisted-THUDDED out of bed, but eventually he made it to his feet, ready to charge into action. "What happened to Isabelle?

Cassandra Clare

#11. She raised herself up on her elbow and jerked her chin at his stiff arms and motionless body. "You're acting like you've never been in bed with a female before."
This time only one eyebrow went up and his lip twitched like he was trying to hide a smile. "Is that how you'd like me to relax?

P.C. Cast

#12. No. You don't get to call me Izzy, you don't send me letters, you don't follow me into dark corridors and try to save me from rats."
"Trust me, we see a rat, it's every man for himself.

Cassandra Clare

#13. Simon was still hoping that somewhere in the Sadowhunter manual was the secret of the Vulcan death grip. After all, as his instructors kept reminding them: All the stories are true.

Cassandra Clare

#14. Loving someone doesn't mean you're never going to make mistakes.

Cassandra Clare

#15. Have you ever been in love? For real?"
"You know I haven't. Don't you think I would have mentioned it?"
"But how can you know for sure, if you don't know what it would feel like? Maybe you have without even realizing it. Maybe you're holding out for something you already have.

Cassandra Clare

#16. There are some important differences between me and Tony Stark, like I have five kids, so I spend more time going to Disneyland than parties.

Elon Musk

#17. Just a bunch of them looking very cool and wearing black. The flyer could say 'READY TO BE A BADASS?' Put me in touch with the Shadowhunter marketing department, I have more gems where that came from.

Cassandra Clare

#18. You will be tempted to think this ordeal marks you as weak. Instead, remember it as proof of your strength.

Cassandra Clare

#19. Remember, children, all the stories are true.
Simon tried to wrap his head around the idea that there might, somewhere in Germany, be a large bean stalk with an angry giant at the top.

Cassandra Clare

#20. There was a time, not so long ago, when Simon Lewis had been convinced that all gym teachers were actually demons escaped from some hell dimension, nourishing themselves on the agonies of uncoordinated youth.
Little did he know he'd been almost right.

Cassandra Clare

#21. Have you never seen a movie? Read a comic book? That's always how it starts - just a little temptation, just a little taste of evil, and then BAM, your light saber turns red and you're breathing through a big black mask and slicing off your son's hand just to be mean.
They looked at him blankly.

Cassandra Clare

#22. He hated to admit it, but this was one of the things about demon amnesia that bothered him the most. What kind of seventeen-year-old guy doesn't know whether or not he's a virgin?

Cassandra Clare

#23. To say that gender is performative is a little different because for something to be performative means that it produces a series of effects. We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.

Judith Butler

#24. Heck, I don't know what it is. All I know is that my mind fractured like a mirror one day and here I am almost ten years later still cutting myself on the shards.

Addison Moore

#25. We all change the world, with every day of living in it - Magnus Bane

Cassandra Clare

#26. History, the way the teachers liked it, was a racetrack, a straight shot from start to finish line; life itself was more of a maze.

Cassandra Clare

#27. Simon stood up and said the first thing that popped into his mind. "I just wanted to tell you that we all really enjoyed that beef stew they saved for dinner. You should serve that again."
Dean Penhallow gave him an odd look. " those weren't beets, Simon."
This didn't surprise him.

Cassandra Clare

#28. Being together ... it will never be right. Thought it sure as hell feels like it could. We'd result to train wrecks. We'd cause whirlwinds. We'd start wildfires.

Nessie Q.

#29. People could bear so much, but Simon did not know how much of the original you was left when the world had twisted you into a whole different shape.

Cassandra Clare

#30. Producing is important because if there is no one making the tunes, there is nothing for the DJs to play, and nothing for the people to dance to.

John Norman

#31. He had wanted to go to the Academy and become a Shadowhunter, to learn more about his own life and remember everything he had lost, to become someone stronger and better.
Except that you did not become someone stronger and better by only thinking about yourself.

Cassandra Clare

#32. How is Ty? There is nothing wrong with Ty, but he is different, and the Clave hates all that is different. They will try to punish him, for being who he is. They would punish a star for burning.

Cassandra Clare