Quotes from book
City of Ashes

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.


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Cassandra Clare photo
Cassandra Clare photo

“Don't you hate it? Not ever saying how you really feel?”

Source: City of Ashes

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Cassandra Clare photo

“Jace suggested that the cast of "Gilligan's Island" could go do something anatomically unlikely with themselves.”

Variant: Jace said that the cast of Gilligan's Island could do something anatomically unlikely with themselves.
Source: City of Ashes

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Cassandra Clare photo
Cassandra Clare photo
Cassandra Clare photo
Cassandra Clare photo

“Nothing less than 7 inches.”

Source: City of Ashes

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Cassandra Clare photo
Cassandra Clare photo
Cassandra Clare photo
Cassandra Clare photo
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“I keep thinking about blood. I dream about it. Wake up thinking about it. Pretty soon I'll be writing morbid emo poetry about it.”

Simon to Clary, pg. 217
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)

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Cassandra Clare photo

“With Jace, you don't really get to choose your insulting nickname.”

Clary to Simon, pg. 234
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)

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