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City of Bones

Name: City of Bones
Author: 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.

“What's this?" he demanded, looking from Clary to his companions, as if they might know what she was doing there.
"It's a girl," Jace said, recovering his composure. "Surely you've seen girls before, Alec. Your sister Isabelle is one.”

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“Investigation?" Isabelle laughed. "Now we're detectives? Maybe we should all have code names."
"Good idea," said Jace. "I shall be Baron Hotschaft Von Hugenstein.”

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“Can I help you with something?"
Clary turned instant traitor against her gender. "Those girls on the other side of the car are staring at you."
Jace assumed an air of mellow gratification. "Of course they are," he said, "I am stunningly attractive.”

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“One of the Silent Brothers is here to see you. Hodge sent me to wake you up. Actually he offered to wake you himself, but since it's 5 a. m., I figured you'd be less cranky if you had something nice to look at."
"Meaning you?"
"What else?”

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“"Well there goes my plan for selling them on eBay," Clary muttered.
"Selling them on what?"
Clary smiled blandly at him. "A mythical place of great magical power."”

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Clary and Jace, pg. 98
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

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

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“It's your gift, to see the beauty and the horror in ordinary things. It doesn't make you crazy, just different.”

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“I'm not unhappy," he said. "Only people with no purpose are unhappy. I've got a purpose.”

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“"Oh-Simon!"
"No, I'm Jace," said Jace patiently. "Simon is the weaselly little one with the bad haircut and dismal fashion sense."”

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Clary and Jace, pg. 170
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

“My eyes are usually described as golden… and luminous.”

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Variant: Are you the one with the blue eyes?"
"Actually, my eyes are usually described as golden... and luminous.
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“Why mundanes always insist on taking responsibility for things that aren't their fault is a mystery to me. You didn't force that cocktail down his idiotic throat."
-Jace, pg.241-”

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“Alec muttered a retort into his coffee. It rhymed with something that sounded a lot more like "ducking glass mole.”

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“It's a girl," Jace said, recovering his composure. "Surely you've seen girls before, Alec. Your sister Isabelle is one.”

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Jace to Alec, pg. 12
Variant: I'ts a girl" Jace said, recovering his composure. "Surely you've seen girls before, Alec. Your sister Isabelle is one.
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

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

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

“Come in. And try not to murder any of my guests.”

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“She was afraid you'd freak out? Start seeing demons in the White House?”

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Jace to Clary, pg. 311
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

“The weapons room looked exactly the way something called "the weapons room" sounded like it would look.”

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“What are you doing here anyway?"
"'Here' as in your bedroom or 'here' as in the great spiritual question of our purpose here on this planet?"
-Clary & Jace, pg.306-”

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“There were some memories, though, that never faded.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Variant: There were some feelings you never forgot.
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“Unfortunately, we're all out of bitter revenge at the moment, so it's either tea or nothing.”

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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."