Cassandra Clare, City Of Bones

Quotes

• “He made a sound like a choked laughed before he reached out and pulled her into her arms. She was aware of Luke watching...”
• “You guessed? You must have been pretty sure, considering you could have killed me.""I was ninety percent sure.""I see,"C...”
• “By the Angel,"Jace said, looking the demon up and down. "I knew Greater Demons were meant to be ugly, but no one ever wa...”
• “Jace's eyes sparkled, but he said calmly, "Not at all. the Silent Brothers can help her retrieve her memories.""You hate...”
• “What are all these?"Clary asked."Vials of holy water, blessed knives, steel and silver blades,"Jace said, piling the wea...”
• “Magnus, standing by the door, snapped his fingers impatiently. "Move it along, teenagers. The only person who gets to ca...”
• “Don't order any of the faerie food,"said Jace, looking at her over the top of his menu. "It tends to make humans a littl...”
• “Rule number one of anime,"Simon said. He sat propped up against a pile of pillows at the foot of his bed, a bag of potat...”
• “Even in half demon hunter clothes, Clary thought, he looked like the kind of boy who'd come over your house to pick you ...”
• “Clary felt suddenly annoyed. "When the self-congratulatory part of the evening is over, maybe we could get back to savin...”
• “Have you fallen in love with the wrong person yet?'Jace said, "Unfortunately, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remain...”
• “Do you remember back at the hotel when you promised that if we lived, you’d get dressed up in a nurse’s outfit and give ...”
• “Don't stop there. I suppose there are also, what, vampires and werewolves and zombies?""Of course there are. Although yo...”
• “That's why when major badasses greet each other in movies, they don't say anything, they just nod. The nod means, 'I' am...”
• “I don't want tea,"said Clary, with muffled force. "I want to find my mother. And then I want to find out who took her in...”
• “Words were weapons, his father had taught him that, and he'd wanted to hurt Clary more than he'd ever wanted to hurt any...”
• “Haven't you ever heard that modesty is an attractive trait?""Only from ugly people,"Jace confided. "The meek may inherit...”
• “Can I help you with something?"Clary turned instant traitor against her gender. "Those girls on the other side of the ca...”
• “That sounds terrific, thought Cary, just you, your comatose wife your shell-shocked son, and your daughter who hates you...”
• “And when I saw him[my father] lying dead in a pool of his own blood, I knew then that I hadn't stopped believing in God....”
• “One of the Silent Brothers is here to see you. Hodge sent me to wake you up. Actually he offered to wake you himself, bu...”
• “What's this?"he demanded, looking from Clary to his companions, as if they might know what she was doing there."It's a g...”
• “Simon!"Clary shouted, and seized his arm. "What?"Simon looked alarmed."I'm not really sleeping with your mom, you know. ...”
• “Don't touch any of my weapons without my permission.""Well, there goes my plan for selling them all on eBay,"Clary mutte...”
• “Your friend's poetry is terrible,"he said.Clary blinked, caught momentarily off guard. "What?""I said his poetry was ter...”
• “I knew then that I hadn't stopped believing in God. I'd just stopped believing God cared. There might be a God, Clary, a...”
• “Just because you call an electric eel a rubber duck doesn't make it a rubber duck, does it? And God help the poor bastar...”
• “Pretty soon the only people left without a girlfriend will be me and Wendell the school janitor, and he smells like wind...”
• “Jace looked as if she had slapped him. "Why are you determined not to believe us?""Because she loves you,"said Valentine...”
• “Investigation?"Isabelle laughed. "Now we're detectives? Maybe we should all have code names.""Good idea,"said Jace. "I s...”
• “It's not gray,"Clary felt compelled to point out. "It's green.""If there was such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd ...”
• “Is this the part where you start tearing off strips of your shirt to bind my wounds?""If you wanted me to rip my clothes...”
• “Don't."Clary raised a warning hand. "I'm not really in the mood right now.""That's got to be the first time a girl's eve...”
• “I forgot that's what gets you all hot and bothered, Jace, girls killing things.""I like anyone killing things, especiall...”
• “The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to...”
• “It wouldn't be my move,"Jace agreed. "First the candy and flowers, then the apology letters, then the ravenous demon hor...”
• “How can you tell? That I like books, I mean.The look on your face when you walked in, somehow I doubted you were that im...”
• “I have a high pain threshold. In fact, it's more of a large and tastfully decorated foyer than a threshold. But I do get...”
• “I figured all your classes were stuff like Slaughter 101 and Beheading for Beginners."Jace flipped a page. "Very funny, ...”
• “And next time you're planning to injure yourself to get me attention, just remember that a little sweet talk works wonde...”
• “Going round and around inside a dryer can be fatal, whereas pasta is rarely fatal. Unless Isabelle makes it.”
• “It means 'Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of our Enemies Since 1234'.”
• “A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance covers?”
• “aren't you, uh... reproducing?"sure, we love reproducing it's one of our favorite things.”
• “The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me.”
• “I'm not unhappy,"he said. "Only people with no purpose are unhappy. I've got a purpose.”
• “Well I'd certainly hate to interrupt your pleasant night stroll with my sudden death.”
• “If there were such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood.”
• “My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health.”
• “Where there is love, there is often also hate. They can exist side by side.”