Quotes from book

City of Ashes

“Jace wasn’t exactly prone to random fits of panic”

“I was even a little glad that if it wasn’t going to be me she wanted, it was going to be someone who really deserved her.”

“If I made a joke about just dropping in, would you write me off as a cliche?”

“I can't believe he didn't have the dignity and presence of mind just to get drunk and pass out in some gutter," said Jace. "I must say, I'm disappointed in the little fellow.”

“I get the feeling," Alec said, and smiled, "she hasn't forgiven me for betraying you, as she sees it."
"Good girl," said Jace with appreciation.
"I didn't betray you, idiot."
"It's the thought that counts.”

“He will get through this, even if he thinks he won't.”

“Love makes liars of us all.”

“I don't want to be a man. I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead.”

“said Luke, as if it were the filthiest word he knew.”

“Bitten? You mean you're a-"
"A werewolf," said the girl. "Like everyone else here. Except you, and the asshole. And the asshole's sister.”

“He had become a monster. You just couldn't see it… because it wore the face of a friend.”

“Do you ever feel like screaming?' Clary asked him [Jace].
'Some of the time.”

“Where did you get that?" Jace looked down and saw that the spider demon's poison had eaten a hole in his shirt, leaving a good deal of his left shoulder bare.
"The shirt? At Macy's Winter sale.”

“You can take your Law," she said in a measured tone, "and shove it right up your-”

“The Chairman likes you.”
“Is that good?”
“I never date anyone my cat doesn’t like,” Magnus said easily, and stood up.”

“But-Jace what are you doing?'
'Finishing my shower. And if you‘ve made me run through all the hot water, I‘ll be very annoyed.”

“She took out a shiny folded pamphlet, the kind they kept stacked in clear plastic stands in hospital waiting rooms. "How to Come Out to Your Parents," she read out loud. "LUKE. Don't be ridiculous. Simon's not gay, he's a vampire.”

“Then again, it was Jace. He'd pick a fight with a Mack truck if the urge took him.”

“I can't believe you know someone named Freaky Pete," said Simon.
"I know alot of people," said Luke. "Not that Freaky Pete is strictly people, but I'm hardly one to talk.”