„I want to see Brother Zachariah.””He is well. You need not worry yourself about him.””I want to see him. I nearly killed him at the Citadel–“”That was not you. That was the heavenly fire. And it did anything but harm him.””He said when I met him that he believes a debt is owed to the Herondales. I’m a Herondale. He’d want to see me.””And then you intend to depart the Basilias?””There is nothing wrong with me. I don’t need to be in the infirmary. Surely you could be using your resources more fruitfully on the actually wounded. Look, you can either bring me to Brother Zachariah or I can wander around yelling for him until he turns up.””You are a great deal of trouble, Jace Herondale.“

— Cassandra Clare
„I remember you said this war was a story of Lightwoods and Herondales and Fairchilds, and it is, and Blackthorns and Carstairs as well, and it's amazing to see them. But when I do, it's as if I see the past that stretches out behind them. I watch Jace Herondale play, and I see the ghosts that rise up in the music. Don't you?“
— Cassandra Clare
„I'm scared of him," said Piggy, "and that's why I know him. If you're scared of someone you hate him but you can't stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he's alright really, an' then when you see him again; it's like asthma an' you can't breath. I tell you what. He hates you too, Ralph —""Me? Why me?""I dunno. You got him over the fire; an' you're chief an' he isn't.""But he's Jack Merridew!""I been in bed so much I done some thinking. I know about people. I know about me. And him. He can't hurt you: but if you're standing out of the way he'd hurt the next thing. And that's me.""Piggy's right, Ralph. There's you and Jack. Go on being chief.“
— William Golding
„Jem: Come in.Jace: Where's Brother Zachariah?Jem: I'm right here. Jace Herondale. And once more a Herondale is the object of my deliverance. I should have anticipated.“
— Cassandra Clare
„You trust them (white Americans), and I don't. You studied what he wanted you to learn about him in schools. I studied him in the streets and in prison, where you see the truth.“
— Malcolm X
„If I were reincarnated, I’d want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.“
— William Faulkner
„And you don't care that I'm your brother," he said. "I know how you felt about Jace, even when you thought he was your brother. You can't lie to me.""Jace is better than you.""No one's better than me.“
— Cassandra Clare
„You are a great deal of trouble, Jace Herondale“
— Cassandra Clare