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City of Bones

City of Bones

Cassandra Clare

City of Bones is the first urban fantasy book in author Cassandra Clare's New York Times bestselling series The Mortal Instruments. The novel is set in modern day New York City and has been released in several languages, including Bulgarian, Hebrew, Polish and Japanese.

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„Have you fallen in love with the wrong person yet?'
Jace said, "Unfortunately, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remains myself."
…"At least," she said, "you don't have to worry about rejection, Jace Wayland."
"Not necessarily. I turn myself down occasionally, just to keep it interesting.“

— Cassandra Clare, book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

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„Is this the part where you start tearing off strips of your shirt to bind my wounds?"
"If you wanted me to rip my clothes off, you should have just asked.“

— Cassandra Clare, book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

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„The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.“

— Cassandra Clare, book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

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„Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.“

— Cassandra Clare, book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

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„"I forgot that's what gets you all hot and bothered, Jace. Girls killing things."
"I like anyone killing things," He said equably, "Especially me."“

— Cassandra Clare, book City of Bones

Isabelle and Jace, pg. 337
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

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„"You know, most psychologists agree that hostility is really just sublimated sexual attraction."
"Ah, that might explain why I so often run into people who seem to dislike me."“

— Cassandra Clare, book City of Bones

Clary and Jace, pg. 331
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

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„What?" Simon looked alarmed. "I'm not really sleeping with your mom, you know. I was just trying to get your attention. Not that your mom isn't a very attractive woman, for her age.“

— Cassandra Clare, book City of Bones

Simon, pg. 7
Variant: Simon!" Clary shouted, and seized his arm.
"What?" Simon looked alarmed.
"I'm not really sleeping with your mom, you know. I was just trying to get your attention. Not that your mom isn't a very attractive woman, for her age.
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

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„Just because you call an electric eel a rubber duck doesn't make it a rubber duck, does it? And God help the poor bastard who decides they want to take a bath with the duckie.“

— Cassandra Clare, book City of Bones

Jace to Clary, pg. 83
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

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„"You really want to know what else it was my mom said about you?" he asked.
She shook her head.
He didn't seem to notice. "She said you'd break my heart."“

— Cassandra Clare, book City of Bones

Simon and Clary, pg. 321
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

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„One minute you're munching on a faerie plum the next minute you're running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not,' he added hastily, 'that this has ever happened to me.“

— Cassandra Clare, book City of Bones

Jace to Clary, pg. 192
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)
Context: "Don't order any of the faerie food," said Jace, looking at her over the top of his menu. "It tends to make humans a little crazy. One minute you're munching a faerie plum, the next minute you're running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not," he added hastily, "that this has ever happened to me."

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„That sounds terrific. Just you, your comatose wife, your shell-shocked son, and you daughter who hates your guts. Not to mention that your two kids may be in love with each other. Yeah, that sounds like a perfect family reunion.“

— Cassandra Clare, book City of Bones

Clary, pg. 444
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

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„Unfortunately, we're all out of bitter revenge at the moment, so it's either tea or nothing.“

— Cassandra Clare, book City of Bones

Hodge and Clary, pg. 75
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)
Context: "Is there anything I could get for you?" he asked. "Something to drink? Some tea?"
"I don't want tea," said Clary, with a 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."

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„Well, I'd certainly hate to interrupt your pleasant night stroll with my sudden death.“

— Cassandra Clare, book City of Bones

Clary to Jace, pg. 216
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

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„Hi, I'm one of the knife-carrying hooligans you met last night in Pandemonium? I'm afraid I made a bad impression and was hoping you'd give me a chance to make it up to- "
"SIMON!“

— Cassandra Clare, book City of Bones

Clary held the phone away from her ear as he cracked up laughing. "That is so not funny!"
Simon and Clary, pg. 19
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

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„To love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be destroyed.“

— Cassandra Clare, book City of Bones

Jace to Clary, pg. 206
Variant: to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

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„Hodge sent me to wake you up. Actually, he offered to wake you up himself, but since it's five a. m., I figured you'd be less cranky if you had something nice to look at.“

— Cassandra Clare, book City of Bones

Jace to Clary, pg. 162
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

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„True. I'd always hoped that when I finally said 'I love you' to a girl, she'd say 'I know' back, like Leia did to Han in Return of the Jedi.“

— Cassandra Clare, book City of Bones

Variant: I'd always hoped that when i said 'I Love You' to a girl, she'd say 'I Know' like Leia did to Han in Return Of The Jedi
Source: City of Bones

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„Who cares if you have a girlfriend, anyway?"

"I care" Simon said gloomily. "Pretty soon the only people left without a girlfriend will be me and Wendell the school janitor. And he smells like windex.“

— Cassandra Clare, book City of Bones

Variant: Pretty soon the only people left without a girlfriend will be me and Wendell the school janitor, and he smells like windex."
"At least you know he's still available.
Source: City of Bones

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„Going round and around inside a dryer can be fatal, whereas pasta is rarely fatal. Unless Isabelle makes it.“

— Cassandra Clare, book City of Bones

Clary and Jace, pg. 313
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)
Context: "Well, when I was five, I wanted my mother to let me go around and around inside the dryer with the clothes," Clary said. "The difference is, she didn't let me."
"Probably because going around and around inside a dryer can be fatal," Jace pointed out, "whereas pasta is rarely fatal. Unless Isabelle makes it."

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„Demonic activity levels? Do they have a device that measures whether the demons inside the house are doing power yoga?“

— Cassandra Clare, book City of Bones

Simon to Clary, pg. 340
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

„Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Etiam egestas wisi a erat. Morbi imperdiet, mauris ac auctor dictum.“

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