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.
“Don't screech like that. You'll wake the dead." - Jace - The Mortal Instruments - City Of Bones”
Variant: Don't screech like that. You'll wake the dead.
Source: City of Bones
“He caught her as if he were used to catching fainting girls, as if he did it everyday.”
Source: City of Bones
“The missing stairs baffled Clary. What did vampires have against stairs?
-Clary, pg.266”
Source: City of Bones
Variant: Every teenager in the world feels like that, feels broken or out of place, different somehow, royalty mistakenly born into a family of peasants. The difference in your case is that it's true.
Source: 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."
Simon and Clary, pg. 472-473
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)
