City of Bones Quotes

″‘No,’ she shot back without looking at him. ‘You’re telling lies with a little bit of the truth mixed in is all.‘”

“When his land burned, when his home was destroyed, it was assumed that he had burned himself and the Cup to ashes rather than relinquish either to the Clave. His bones were found in the ashes, along with the bones of his wife.”

″‘I thought you were asking about children of mine,‘Luke interrupted smoothly. ‘Yes Jocelyn had a daughter. Clarissa. I assume she’s run off. Did Valentine send you to find her?”

“His eyes, fixed on Jace, seemed to burn. Between his teeth, he hissed, ‘So be it. The Forsaken will take you all.‘”

“I understand enough. [...] I understand that Jace trusted you and you traded him away to a man who hated his father and probably hates Jace, too, just because you’re too cowardly to live with a curse you deserved.”

″‘You won’t hurt him,‘whispered Hodge. ‘You swore you wouldn’t hurt him.’

“There’s Ravener poison coursing through your veins right now. you’ll be dead in an hour if you don’t come with me.”

“Just coffee. Black - like my soul.”

“Don’t get upset? You’re telling me that my dad is a guy who’s basically an evil overlord, and you want me not to get upset?”

“Why mundanes always insist on taking responsibility for things that aren’t their fault is a mystery to me. You didn’t force that cocktail down his idiotic throat.”

“I’ve been in love with you for ten years, so I thought it seemed like time to find out whether you felt the same about me. Which, I guess, you don’t.”

″‘Honored to make your acquaintance,’ he said. ‘I would be honored to make the acquaintance of anyone who could kill a Ravener with her bare hands.‘”

“And now the two of you have plotted my betrayal together. You will regret what you have done, all the rest of your lives.”

“The point is, Simon drank one of those blue drinks-I told him not to, but he didn’t listen-and he turned into a rat.”

″‘My signature,’ he said. ‘I knew it was folly when I did it. An act of hubris...”

″‘That we wound up in Pandemonium the same night that Jace and the others just happened to be there, pursuing a demon? The night before Valentine came for my mother?’ Simon shook his head. ‘I don’t believe in coincidences,’ he said.”

″‘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 the first place, and I want to kill them.’ ‘Unfortunately,’ said Hodge, ‘we’re all out of bitter revenge at the moment, so it’s either tea or nothing.‘”

″‘Just promise me you won’t come home. Go to Simon’s and call Luke - tell him that he’s found me-’ Her words were drowned out by a heavy crash like splintering wood. ‘Who’s found you? Mom, did you call the police? Did you-’ [...] Clary head her mother draw in a sharp breath before speaking, her voice eerily calm: ‘I love you Clary.’ The phone went dead.”

“I said his poetry was terrible. It sounds like he ate a dictionary and started vomiting up words at random.”

″‘That whole business about Clary’s mother being married to Valentine,‘said Isabelle. [...] ‘So now he’s back from the dead and he’s come looking for her. Maybe he wants to get back together.‘”