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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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“Jace was still staring at her as if she'd told him she'd found out one of the Silent Brothers doing nude cartwheels in the hallway.”

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Clary, pg. 325
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

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“Why are you such an asshat?"
"An asshat?" Jace looked as if he were about to laugh.”

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“There's no reason for any warlock to be interested in her unless he's in the market for nonfunctional crystal balls.”

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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."”

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

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“Demon slayers take the subway?”

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“Drive fast, mundane. Drive like hell was following you.”

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Jace to Simon
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

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“Well you can go ahead and hand your head out the window if you feel like it"

"I'm a werewolf not a golden retriever”

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Clary and Luke, pg. 415
Variant: "Well, you can go ahead and hang your head out of the car window if you feel like it."
Luke laughed. "I'm a werewolf, not a golden retriever."
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

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“Hugo is a raven, and, as such he knows many things. I, meanwhile, am Hodge Starkweathe, a professor of history, as such, I do not know nearly enough.”

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“Chairmen Meow deserves me every effort.”

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“He had electric blue hair that had stuck around his head like tendrils of a startled octopus.”

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“Just coffee. Black—like my soul.”

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Simon and Clary, pg. 36
Variant: What do you want?"
"Just coffee. Black - like my soul.
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

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“Jace whistled. "Raphael is really having an exceptionally bad night."
-Jace, pg.283-”

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“Somehow he managed to look cool despite the heat. It made Clary want to smack him.”

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“Seeing through glamour is easy. It's people that are hard.”

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Clary to Simon, pg. 341
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

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“I'm not so sure about this wind and howling darkness business," Jace went on, "smells more like landfill to me. You sure you're not from Staten Island?”

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“i was joking with isabelle about vampires right before it happened. just trying to make her laugh, you know? what freaks out jewish vanpires? silver stars of david? chopped liver? check for eighteen dollars?”

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“You know, when most girls say they want a big rock, they don't mean, you know, literally a big rock."
"Very amusing, my sarcastic friend. It's not a rock, precisely. All Shadowhunters have a witchlight rune-stone.”

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“It will bring you light even among the darkest shadows of this world and others”

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“Anything?" She laughed. "Like what kind of anything did you want?"
"Well, when I was five, I wanted to take a bath in spaghetti."
-Clary & Jace, pg.310-”

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