Quotes from book
City of Bones

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.

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

“He's probably never met a six-foot-tall hot elf-woman in a fur bikini, either”
Clary to Simon, pg. 118
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)