My Favorite Quotes

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones

I'm sorry it took me so long to post this, I just couldn't focus long enough to type, but my NOOK is acting weird so I have to retype all my notes onto my iPod. So I just copied this from the note app I use. Anyway, here are my favorite quotes from the first book in The Mortal Instruments series, City of Bones, by Cassandra Clare. The page numbers are from the American paperback edition. Enjoy!

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""Meanwhile," Simon added, "I wanted to tell you that lately I've been cross-dressing. Also, I'm sleeping with your mom. I thought you should know."" (The Mortal Instruments: Book 1: City of Bones, page 6, written by Cassandra Clare)

""Isabelle's right," agreed the taller boy. "Nobody here needs a lesson in semantics-or demonology." 

They're crazy, Clary thought. Actually crazy. 

Jace raised his head and smiled. There was something fierce about the gesture, something that reminded Clary of documentaries she'd watched about lions on the Discovery Channel, the way big cats would raise their heads and sniff the air for prey. "Isabelle and Alec think I talk too much," he said confidingly. "Do you think I talk too much?"" (The Mortal Instruments: Book 1: City of Bones, page 11, written by Cassandra Clare)

"It was Alec who spoke first. "What's this?" he demanded, looking from Clary to his companions, as if they might know what she was doing there. 

"It's a girl," Jace said, recovering his composure. "Surely you've seen girls before, Alec. Your sister Isabelle is one." He took a step closer to Clary, squinting as if he couldn't quite believe what he was seeing. "A mundie girl," he said, half to himself. "And she can see us." 

"Of course I can see you," Clary said. "I'm not blind, you know." 

"Oh, but you are," said Jace, bending to pick up his knife. "You just don't know it." He straightened up. "You'd better get out of here, if you know what's good for you." 

"I'm not going anywhere," Clary said. "If I do, you'll kill him." She pointed at the boy with the blue hair. 

"That's true," admitted Jace, twirling the knife between his fingers. "What do you care if I kill him or not?" 

"Be-because-," Clary spluttered. "You can't just go around killing people." 

"You're right," said Jace. "You can't go around killing people." He pointed at the boy with the blue hair, whose eyes were slitted. Clary wondered if he'd fainted. "That's not a person, little girl. It may look like a person and talk like a person and maybe even bleed like a person. But it's a monster."" (The Mortal Instruments: Book 1: City of Bones, pages 12-13, written by Cassandra Clare)

"The dark prince sat astride his black steed, his sable cape flowing behind him. A golden circlet bound his blond locks, his handsome face was cold with the rage of battle, and... 

"And his arm looked like an eggplant," Clary muttered to herself in exasperation." (The Mortal Instruments: Book 1: City of Bones, page 18, written by Cassandra Clare)

""Is this Clarissa Fray?" The voice on the other end of the phone sounded familiar, though not immediately identifiable. 

Clary twirled the phone cord nervously around her finger. "Yeees?" 

"Hi, I'm one of the knife-carrying hooligans you met last night in Pandemonium? I'm afraid I made a bad impression and was hoping you'd give me a chance to make t up to-" 

"SIMON!" Clary held the phone away from her ear as he cracked up laughing. "That is so not funny!"" (The Mortal Instruments: Book 1: City of Bones, page 19, written by Cassandra Clare)