50+ Best 'City of Bones' Quotes

Clary Fairchild: Are you testing what Alec said about some of these bikes being able to go underwater?

Jace Herondale: No. I think that's just a story.

Clary Fairchild: But, Jace, all the stories are true.

Jace Herondale: Fine. I'll go with you. You don't have to tell me good things about your mother. (he's talking about Jocelyn) I already know them.

Clary Fairchild: Do you?

Jace Herondale: She raised you, didn't she?

Quote from The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones | Alec Lightwood: I should have guessed you were Jace's sister. You both have the same artistic talent. Clary Fairchild (shocked): Jace can draw? Alec Lightwood (chuckles): Nah. I was just kidding. He can't draw a straight line.

Quote from The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones | Clary Fairchild (to Alec): So Magnus fixed you? Luke said... Izzy Lightwood: He did! It was so awesome. He showed up and ordered everyone out of the room and shut the door. Blue and red sparks kept exploding out into the hallway from underneath the floor. Alec Lightwood: I don't remember any of it. Izzy Lightwood: Then he sat by Alec's bed all night and into the morning to make sure he woke up okay. Alec Lightwood: I don't remember that, either. (Says Alec hastily and Izzy smiles)

Brother Jeremiah: You cannot save others until you first save yourself.

Clary Fairchild: This fortune-cookie stuff is getting really old...

Valentine Morgenstern: We'll be together there, as we should be.

Clary's thoughts: That sounds terrific. Just you, your comatose wife, your shell-shocked son, and your daughter who hates your guts. Not to mention that your two kids may be in love with each other. Yeah, that sounds like a perfect family reunion.

Clary Fairchild: So when the moon's only partly full, you only feel a little wolfy?

Luke Garroway: You could say that.

Clary Fairchild: Well, you can go ahead and hang your head out the car window if you feel like it.

Luke Garroway (laughs): I'm a werewolf, not a golden retriever.

Luke Garroway: Hugin and Munin were Valentine's pet birds. Their names mean "Thought" and "Memory."

Clary Fairchild: Well, they should mean "Attack" and "Kill." Hugo almost tore my eyes out.

Luke Garroway: That's what he's trained to do.

Clary Fairchild (to Luke): Don't get upset? You're telling me that my dad is a guy who's basically an evil overlord, and you want me not to get upset?

Jace Herondale: I may not believe in sin, but I do feel guilt. We Shadowhunters live by a code, and that code isn't flexible. Honor, fault, penance, those are real to us, and they have nothing to do with religion and everything to do with who we are. This is who I am, Clary. I am one of the Clave. It's in my blood and bones.

Dorothea Rollins: Didn't I read your tea leaves, Shadowhunter? Have you fallen in love with the wrong person yet?

Jace Herondale: Unfortunately, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remains myself.

Dorothea Rollins: At least, you don't have to worry about rejection, Jace Wayland.

Jace Herondale: Not necessarily. I turn myself down occasionally, just to keep it interesting.

Clary Fairchild: Seeing through glamour is easy. It's people that are hard.

Clary Fairchild: What's with that "hey" thing?

Simon Lewis: What "hey" thing?

Clary Fairchild: The "hey" thing that guys always do. Like when you saw Jace and Alec, you said "hey," and they said "hey" back. What's wrong with "hello"?

Simon Lewis: "Hello" is girly. Real men are terse. Laconic.

Clary Fairchild: So the more manly you are, the less you say?

Simon Lewis: Right. That's why when major badasses greet each other in movies, they don't say anything, they just nod. The nod means, "I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass," but they don't say anything because they're Wolverine and Magneto and it would mess up their vibe to explain.

Clary Fairchild: Shotgun!

(Alec reaches for his bow...)

Alec Lightwood: Where?

Jace Herondale: She means she wants the front seat.

Jace Herondale: Don't tell me Simon's turned himself into an ocelot and you want me to do something about it before Isabelle makes him into a stole. Well, you'll have to wait till tomorrow. I'm out of commission. Look. Jammies.

Clary Fairchild: Jace, this is important.

(Jace notices Clary is holding a sketchpad)

Jace Herondale: Don't tell me you've got a drawing emergency. You need a nude model. Well, I'm not in the mood. You could ask Hodge...

Title:	City of Bones
Series	The Mortal Instruments (Book #1)
Author:	Cassandra Clare
Genres:	Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance, Fiction
Release Date:	March 27, 2007

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