"Clary, you're an artist, like your mother. That means you see the world in ways that other people don't. It's your git, to see the beauty and the horror in ordinary things. It doesn't make you crazy—just different. There's nothing wrong with it" (Chapter 2, p. 23).

"You seem to be a mundane like any other mundane, yet you can se me. It's a conundrum" (Chapter 3, p. 41).

"It seems the time has come to notify the Clave" (Chapter 5, p. 70).

"She's not a mundane" (Chapter 5, p. 71).

"The Cup is gone, destroyed by Valentine, just before he died. He set a great fire and burned himself to death along with his family, his wife, and his child. Scorched the land black. No one will build there still. They say the land is cursed." (Chapter 5, p. 78).

"You guessed? You must have been pretty sure, considering you could have killed me" (Chapter...