„James Carstairs! Jem! Where are you, you disloyal bastard?“

— Cassandra Clare
„I do not believe you can threaten people into goodness.” - Jem Carstairs“
— Cassandra Clare
„Jem?" he said. 'It is you, James?''Who else?' Jem's voice.“
— Cassandra Clare
„For five years it had been his absolute truth. Jem and Will. Will and Jem. Will Herondale lives, therefore Jem Carstairs lives also.“
— Cassandra Clare
„Go in peace, James Carstairs.“
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„Your place is with me. It always will be. -Jem Carstairs“
— Cassandra Clare
„That sounds almost practiced, James Carstairs. How many girls have you made swoon with that observation?“
— Cassandra Clare
„If there is a life after this one, he said, let me meet you in it, James Carstairs.“
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„When I am in the darkness, I want to think of it in the light, with you. - James Carstairs“
— Cassandra Clare
„You hear that, James Carstairs? We are bound, you and I, over the divide of death, down through whatever generations may come.“
— Cassandra Clare
„When two souls are as one, they stay together on the Wheel. I was born into this world to love you, and I will love you in the next life, and the one after that." ~Jem Carstairs“
— Cassandra Clare
„You are James Herondale, said Uncle Jem. As you always were. Part your mother, part your father, part yourself. I would not change any part of you if I could.“
— Cassandra Clare
„I know," he said, looking down at himself self-consciously. "I am not-I mean, I look-""Beautiful," she said, and she meant it. "You look beautiful, James Carstairs.“
— Cassandra Clare
„Jem cried out with all his remaining strength. You cannot go where I am going! Nor would I want that for you!“
— Cassandra Clare
„You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.“
— John Lennon
„Will: 'Singing the praises of our fair city? We treat you well here, don't we, James? I doubt I'd have that kind of luck in Shanghai. What do you call us there again?'Jem: 'Yang guizi… foreign devils.“
— Cassandra Clare
„Will: "You are not really dying, are you?"Jem: "So they tell me."Will: "I am sorry."Jem: "No. Don’t be ordinary like that. Don’t say you’re sorry. Say you’ll train with me."Will: "I’ll train with you.“
— Cassandra Clare
„Carstairs is alright, I suppose. If you like that sort.”“Oh?”“The taken. The uninterested.”“As opposed to… you, Gabriel?”“Well, yes.“
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„You are home for me now." --Jem to Tessa“
— Cassandra Clare