Most of these quotes are from the beginnings of each section or part in the books but not all of them.
The end is also the beginning. -City of Heavenly Fire
I sung of chaos and eternal night, taught by the heavenly muse to venture down. The dark to descent and up to reascend… -City of Bones
Easy is the descent to Averno, for the door to the underworld lies open both day and night. But to retrace your steps and return to the breezes above, that's the task that's the toil. -City of Bones (Latin translation)
The descent beckons as the ascent beckoned. -City of Bones
I believe I am in Hell, therefore I am. -City of Ashes
Before me things created were none, save things eternal and external I endure. All hope abandon ye who enter here. -City of Ashes
Long is the way, and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light. -City of Glass
Oh yes, I know the way to heaven was easy -City of Glass
There are sicknesses that walk in darkness; and there are exterminating angels, fly early up in the curtains of immateriality, and an uncommunicating nature; whom we cannot see, but we feel their force, and sink under their sword -City of Fallen Angels
Nothing is free. Everything has to be paid for. For every profit in one thing, payment in some other thing. For every life, a death. Even your music, of which we have heard so much, that had to be paid for. Your wife was the payment for your music. Hell is now satisfied. -City of Fallen Angels
No man chooses evil because it is evil, he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. -City of Lost Souls
Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil Angel but love. -City of Lost Souls
I love you as one loves certain dark things. -City of Lost Souls
All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born. -City of Lost Souls
In God tis glory: and when men aspire, Tis a spark to much of Heavenly Fire -City of Heavenly Fire
Therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee. All they that know thee among the people that shall be astonished at thee:thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be anymore -City of Heavenly Fire
And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass growith there in - Deuteronomy 29:23 -City of Heavenly Fire
Ave Atque Vale = Hail and Fairwell -City of Glass
To love is to destroy and to be loved is to be destroyed -City of Bones
L'amor che move il sole l'altare stell Dante = Love is the most powerful force in the world. Love can do anything -City of Fallen Angels
Some things are just to unlikely to dwell upon. -City of Fallen Angels
A fugitive and a wanderer shalt thou be in the earth -City of Fallen Angels
Maia was a steady light in the darkness, Isabelle a burning star spinning through the void -City of Fallen Angels
"Clearly," said Luke, "something is going on that I don't know about."
Simon looked over at him. "Sometimes I think that's the motto of my life." -City of Fallen Angels
