City of Heavenly Fire is a young adult fantasy romance novel, the sixth and final installment in The Mortal Instruments series, and chronologically the twelfth installment in The Shadowhunter Chronicles franchise by Cassandra Clare. It was released on May 27, 2014. The book once again follows the adventures of the teenage Shadowhunter, Clary Fray, and her allies in facing her brother Sebastian Morgenstern and his allies of Endarkened Shadowhunters. It also ties in with both The Infernal Devices and the upcoming The Dark Artifices series by having their main protagonists, Tessa Gray and Emma Carstairs, appear as supporting characters and connecting the worlds of The Infernal Devices and The Dark Artifices.
“I don’t know why I ever helped you.”
“Because you like broken things.”
Variant: I don't know why I ever helped you."
"You like broken things.
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“Everyone gets the time they get together, and no more.”
Variant: Everyone gets the time they get together, and no more. Maybe we're not so different that way.
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Variant: Because the world isn’t divided into the special and the ordinary. Everyone has the potential to be extraordinary. As long as you have a soul and free will, you can be anything, do anything, choose anything.
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Variant: Remember how before, I was talking about Dungeons and Dragons?
Vividly, Jace said. It was a dark time.
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“We find in our children our own selves again, who might be made better than we are.”
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"Brother Zachariah said pretty much the same thing. Maybe with less sarcasm."
Clary Fray and Jace Herondale, pg. 100-101
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Heavenly Fire (2014)
“As of yesterday, my son became engaged to be married to his partner, Magnus Bane”
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Clary Fray, to Emma Carstairs, pg. 95
Variant: Heroes aren't always the ones who win. They're the ones who lose, sometimes. But they keep fighting, they keep coming back. They don't give up. That's what makes them heroes.
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Heavenly Fire (2014)
“Guys don't let other guys keep calling other guys. Okay that came out wrong.”
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