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City of Ashes

Name: City of Ashes
Author: Cassandra Clare

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.

“Is he dead?" he inquired. "He looks dead."
"No," snapped Maryse. "He's not dead."
"Have you checked? I could kick him if you want.”

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

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“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.”

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

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Jace to Clary, pg. 338
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)

“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.”

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“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.”

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

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“Love makes liars of us all.”

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Variant: Love makes you a liar.
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“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.”

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Jace to Clary, pg. 45
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)

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

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“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.”

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Maia to Simon, pg. 50
Variant: A werewolf. Like everyone else here. Except you, and the asshole. And the asshole's sister.
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)

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

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

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“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.”

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

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