The Last Stand of the New York Institute Quotes

“Maryse: I am fighting for a better world for myself and my son.
Magnus: I have no interest in the world you want or in your doubteless repellent brat, I might add.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Last Stand of the New York Institute

“I don't remember ordering the bride of an evil maniac," said Magnus. "It was definitely beef and broccoli. What about you, Tessa? Did you order the bride of an evil maniac?”
― Cassandra Clare, The Last Stand of the New York Institute

“I need some beef and broccoli before I face any more Mr. Darcy. It's a truth universally acknowledged that if you watch too much television on am empty stomach, your head falls off."
"If your head fall off, " Tessa said, "the hairdressing industry would go into an economic meltdown”
― Cassandra Clare, The Last Stand of the New York Institute

“You are interfering in my business, warlock."
Magnus spat blood into his face. "You are torturing a child in my city, Shadowhunter. [...] I thought we were playing a game where we said what the other person was and what we were doing." Magnus told him. "Did I get it wrong? Can I guess again? are you breaking your own sacred Laws, asshole?”
― Cassandra Clare, The Last Stand of the New York Institute

“If you don't want them to find you, changing your last name seems a fairly elementary first step. Trust me, I'm an expert. I've watched a lot of spy movies.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Last Stand of the New York Institute

“The monster's bride at his door. Magnus could not stop staring. [Jocelyn] was staring too. She seemed transfixed by his pajamas. Magnus was frankly offended. He had not invited any wives of crazed hate-cult leader to come around and pass judgement on his wardrobe.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Last Stand of the New York Institute

“But I don't believe I see Valentine Morgenstern. I hear he has charisma enough to draw birds out of trees and convince them to live under the sea, is tall, devastatingly handsome, and has white-blond hair. None of you fits that discription." Magnus paused. "And you don't have white-blonde hair either.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Last Stand of the New York Institute

“But Jocelyn Morgenstern was not the kind of woman who wept, not the kind of woman who broke, or Valentine would have broken her long since.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Last Stand of the New York Institute

“Stephen Herondale would have killed me if he’d ever met me. I would not have been safe living among people like you, or like him. I am the wife and mother of warriors who fought and died and never dishonored themselves as you have. I have worn gear, wielded blades, and slain demons, and all I wished was to overcome evil so that I could live and be happy with those I loved. I’d hoped I had made this a better, safer world for my children. Because of Valentine’s Circle, the Herondale line, the line that was my son’s children’s children, is finished. That happened through you and your Circle and your husband. Stephen Herondale died with hate in his heart and the blood of my people on his hands. I can imagine no more horrible way for mine and Will’s line to end. I will have to carry for the rest of my life the wound of what Valentine’s Circle has done to me, and I will live forever.”
― Cassandra Clare , The Last Stand of the New York Institute

“I have been a friend to Shadowhunters. I know many of your families, going back for hundreds of years."
"There is nothing we can do to correct the questionable judgments of our ancestors," Lucian said.
Magnus hated this guy.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Last Stand of the New York Institute

“It was one of the few things he had to believe in, the possibility of beauty when faced with the reality of so much ugliness.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Last Stand of the New York Institute

“I am fighting for a better world for myself and my son,' said the woman called Maryse.
'I have no interest in the world you want,' Magnus told her. 'Or in your doubtless repellant brat, I might add.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Last Stand of the New York Institute

“Jocelyn and Clary Fray,” said Magnus. “It’s nice to meet you.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Last Stand of the New York Institute

“I am," said Tessa. "I am Theresa Gray, daughter of a Greater Demon and Elizabeth Gray, who was born Adele Starkweather, one of your kind. I was the wife of William Herondale, who was the head of the London Institute, and I was the mother of James and Lucie Herondale. Will and I raised our Shadowhunter children to protect by the Laws of the Clave and Covenant, and to keep to the Accords.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Last Stand of the New York Institute

“you realize that by standing as you are, everyone will think we are kissing. And that is terribly embarrassing for me. I have much better taste in men.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Last Stand of the New York Institute

“It's looking like a quiet night," [Magnus] said. "Come on. Finish up and let me take you home."
"Is this chivalry?" Catarina said with a smile. "Thought that was dead."
"Like us, it never dies.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Last Stand of the New York Institute

“I’ve always said there is a great deal of power in words, and that means names, too. A name you choose for yourself could tell you the story of what your destiny will be, and who you intend to become.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Last Stand of the New York Institute

“She was a story in herself, sweet and full of hope, just beginning.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Last Stand of the New York Institute

“Every age thought they were so enlightened, and every age was stumbling around in much the same darkness of ignorance and fear.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Last Stand of the New York Institute