City Of Shadowhunter Quotes

I am reading City of Glass by Cassandra Clare and I am on page 437. This book is about Shadowhunters and Downworlders coming together to save themselves from Valentine, a corrupt Shadowhunter, and his army of demons aiming to destroy the Shadowhunter and Downworlder races in a bloody war. At the center of the conflict lies Jace and Clary. The siblings’ father is the leader of the demon army and it is their duty to stand against him and fight with their friends and family. Jace has demon blood inside him giving him special powers; along with Clary who can create runes out of thin air, but the source of her abilities are unknown. Clary’s mom has woken up from the spell thanks to Magnus’ powers and the White Book that Clary and Jace had found

Sebastian dodged his seraph blade, his punch, and threw him across the room into a wall, knocking him unconscious. “He’d just thrown you through the air like a softball. Jace, I’ve never seen anyone get the better of you like that” (Clare 285). This quote by Alec shows that Sebastian is very advanced in his abilities because nobody surprises Jace. Clary may be an untrained Shadowhunter, but she is a fighter who added another person distracting him during the fight. Alec shot him with a bow and arrow, but he caught it in mid-flight. There must be something unnatural about Sebastian if he has those abilities and uses them effortlessly. Another reason I have to believe that Sebastian is living off of demon blood is the fact that Simon was disgusted by the taste of his blood. Simon had arrived at the scene just before Sebastian killed all three of his friends and attacked Sebastian. Simon, being a vampire, bit Simon in the neck, sending him running. Later while talking to the recovering Clary, he mentioned that Sebastian’s blood tasted bitter. He said that it resembled the taste of the demon he had bitten during the battle to save a little girl.

We both blamed ourselves for our little brother getting hurt. In the novel written by Cassandra Clara, Isabelle had left Max with Sebastian alone in the living room while she went upstairs to put on her battle clothes. Sebastian had come up behind her without her hearing his footsteps and knocked her unconscious with a hammer. Because of this, she was unable to protect Max and Sebastian murdered him. He had thought he had murdered Isabelle too. When she awoke and found Max dead, she stayed in her room for days, sobbing. She could not bear the thought that she was not there to protect her 9 year-old brother. “I should have been protecting him. I should have been there for him to hold on to, not some stupid little wooden toy” (Clare 325). This quote shows Isabelle’s guilt about Max’s murder. I can relate to this because when I was 10 years old, my little brother, Jake, and I were up in my uncle’s hay barn playing with kittens. I was so caught up adorable balls of fluff that I completely ignored Jake when he wandered off to go jump from hay bale to hay bale. He was screwing around on a tall pile that was stacked above the entrance in the floor. He slipped and plummeted 14 feet through the hole. He landed directly onto his head straight onto the cement below. I remember looking down the hole and shrieking