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City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1) QUOTES

City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1) QUOTES

1 " Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited. "

― Cassandra Clare , City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)

2 " And next time you're planning to injure yourself to get me attention, just remember that a little sweet talk works wonders. "

― Cassandra Clare , City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)

3 " He made a sound like a choked laughed before he reached out and pulled her into her arms. She was aware of Luke watching them from the window, but she shut her eyes resolutely and buried her face against Jace's shoulder. He smelled of salt and blood, and only when his mouth came close to her ear did she understand what he was saying, and it was the simplest litany of all: her name, just her name. "

― Cassandra Clare , City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)

4 " to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed. "

― Cassandra Clare , City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)

5 " My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health. "

― Cassandra Clare , City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)

6 " If there were such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood. "

― Cassandra Clare , City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)

7 " 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. I'd just stopped believing God cared. There might be a God, Clary, and there might be not. Either way, we're on our own. "

― Cassandra Clare , City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)

8 " It means 'Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of our Enemies Since 1234'. "

― Cassandra Clare , City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)

9 " Just because you call an electric eel a rubber duck doesn't make it a rubber duck, does it? And God help the poor bastard who decides they want to take a bath with the duckie. (Jace Wayland) "

― Cassandra Clare , City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)

10 " The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me. "

― Cassandra Clare , City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)

11 " A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance covers? "

― Cassandra Clare , City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)

12 " 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 easily bored "

― Cassandra Clare , City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)

13 " Going round and around inside a dryer can be fatal, whereas pasta is rarely fatal. Unless Isabelle makes it. "

― Cassandra Clare , City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)

14 " Also, I'm sleeping with your mom. Just thought you should know. "

― Cassandra Clare , City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)

15 " My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health.'-Jace
'Just break the door down, will you?'-Clary "

― Cassandra Clare , City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)

16 " Let me put it this way, my father believed in a righteous God. Deus volt, that was his motto- 'because God wills it.' It was the Crusaders' motto, and they went into battle and were slaughtered just like my father. And when I saw him lying dead in a pool of his own blood, I knew then that I hadn't stopped believing in God. I'd just stopped believing God cared. There might be a God, Clary, and there might not, but I don't think it matters. Either way we're on our own. "

― Cassandra Clare , City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)

17 " All knowledge hurts. "

― Cassandra Clare , City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)

18 " Well I'd certainly hate to interrupt your pleasant night stroll with my sudden death. "

― Cassandra Clare , City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)

19 " I knew then that I hadn't stopped believing in God. I'd just stopped believing God cared. There might be a God, Clary, and there might not, but I don't think it matters. Either way we're on our own. "

― Cassandra Clare , City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)

20 " 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 girl. In fact, he wasn't sure he had ever wanted to hurt a girl before. Usually he just wanted them, and then he wanted them to leave him alone. "

― Cassandra Clare , City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)