Quotes from book
City of Ashes
City of Ashes is the second installment in The Mortal Instruments series, an urban fantasy series set in New York written by Cassandra Clare. The novel was one of YALSA's top ten teen books for 2009.
“What I actually want to call you is a hell of a lot more unprintable than your name”
Source: City of Ashes
Clary, Isabelle, Jace, and Simon, pg. 150
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)
Context: "Traded him for Alec," Clary said.
"Not permanently."
"No," said Jace. "Just for a few hours. Unless I don't come back. In which case, maybe he does get to keep Alec. Think of it as a lease with an option to buy."
"Mom and Dad won't be pleased if they find out."
"That you freed a possible criminal by trading away your brother to a warlock who looks like a gay Sonic the Hedgehog and dresses like the Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?" Simon inquired. "No, probably not."
Jace and Clary, pg. 354
Variant: You disappear so completely into your head sometimes," he said. "I wish I could follow you.
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)
“I prefer to think that I'm liar in a way that's uniquely my own.”
Variant: Actually," said Jace, "I prefer to think that I'm a liar in a way that's uniquely my own.
Source: City of Ashes
“It was like a bad movie, except he didn't actually twirl his mustache.”
Jace to Clary, pg. 122
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)
Variant: If you really love something, you never try to keep it the way it is forever. You have to let it be free to change.
Source: City of Ashes
