„Emma,” said Cameron warningly. “The Clave won’t like it.”The Clave was the Shadowhunter government. In Kit’s experience, they didn’t like anything.“

— Cassandra Clare
„He is a Shadowhunter,” said Jocelyn. “His loyalty will be to Clave and Covenant.”“He’s my friend,” said Magnus coldly. “His loyalty is to me.“
— Cassandra Clare
„I always thought being a Shadowhunter meant that I had to approve of what the Clave did. I thought otherwise I wasn't loyal. I made excuses for them. I always have. But I feel like whenever we have to fight, we're fighting a war on two fronts. We fight the enemy and we fight the Clave, too. I don't--I just don't know how I feel anymore.“
— Cassandra Clare
„You know Jace Lightwood?" said Emma."I-- What?""He's famous," Emma said with obvious amazement. He's the best Shadowhunter. The best.“
— Cassandra Clare
„"Admiring yourself? You won't look so pretty when the Clave gets through with you.""You do seem obsessed with my looks. Could it be that all this is because you're attracted to me?"“
— Cassandra Clare
„Whatever the Clave was discussing, the Council meeting was dragging on brutally late. “But he knows New York. He doesn’t know Alicante—“
— Cassandra Clare
„While the Clave disapproves of trespassers, oddly they take an even darker view of beheading and skinning people. They're peculiar that way.“
— Cassandra Clare
„"What does she want?""Constant meetings. Depositions. The Clave keeps wanting to hear what happened when we fought Sebastian at the Burren. We've all had to give accounts, like, fifty times. How Jace absorbed the heavenly fire from Glorious. Descriptions of the Dark Shadowhunters, the Infernal Cup, the weapons they used, the runes that were on them. What we were wearing, what Sebastian was wearing, what everyone was wearing… like phone sex but boring."“
— Cassandra Clare
„The Clave thinks the wards will stand forever because they’ve stood for a thousand years. But so did Rome, till the barbarians came. Everything falls someday“
— Cassandra Clare
„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
„Shadowhunters were brought up to handle anything, weren't they?“
— Cassandra Clare
„Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.“
— Robert A. Heinlein
„Don't you think 'Mark is kind of a weird name for a Shadowhunter?" Julian was saying as Emma approached. "I mean, if you really think about it. It's confusing. 'Put a Mark on me, Mark.“
— Cassandra Clare
„What is a Shadowhunter made of, if they desert their own, if they throw away a child’s heart like rubbish left on the side of the road? Tell me, Simon Lewis, if that is what Shadowhunters are, why would I wish to be one?“
— Cassandra Clare