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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...

Simon Lewis: I was trying to make you jealous! You're so stupid, Clary. You're so stupid, can't you see anything?

Clary Fairchild: Trying to make me jealous? Why would you try to do that?

Simon Lewis: Because I've been in love with you for ten years, so I thought it seemed like time to find out whether you felt the same about me. Which, I guess, you don't. Don't. There's nothing you can say. You really want to know what else it was my mom said about you? She said you'd break my heart.

Quote from The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones | Clary Fairchild: A picnic? It's a little late for Central Park, don't you think? It's full of... Jace Herondale: Faeries. I know. Clary Fairchild: I was going to say muggers... Though I pity the mugger who goes after you. Jace Herondale: That is a wise attitude, and I commend you for it.

Clary Fairchild: I was in bed most of the day. What about you? Aren't you exhausted?

Jace Herondale: Much like the postal service, demon hunters never sleep. "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these..."

Clary Fairchild: You'd be in major trouble if gloom of night did stay you.

Clary Fairchild (to Simon): I only ever loved three people in my life. My mom and Luke, and you. And I've lost all of them except you. Don't ever imagine you aren't important to me, don't even think it.

Clary Fairchild: You can rant all you want about honor and honesty and how mundanes don't have any of either, but if you were honest, you'd admit this tantrum is just because you're in love with him. It doesn't have anything to do with...

(Alec pushes Clary against the wall in anger...)

Alec Lightwood: Don't you ever... ever, say anything like that to him or I'll kill you. I swear on the Angel, I'll kill you.

Clary Fairchild: Does it hurt?

Jace Herondale: No. I have a high pain threshold. In fact, it's less of a threshold and more of a large and tastefully decorated foyer. But I do get easily bored. Do you remember back at the hotel when you promised that if we lived, you'd get dressed up in a nurse's outfit and give me a sponge bath?

Clary Fairchild: Actually, I think you misheard. It was Simon who promised you the sponge bath.

Simon Lewis (smirks at Jace): As soon as I'm back on my feet, handsome.

Jace Herondale: I knew we should have left you a rat.

Quote from The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones | Magnus Bane: You on your way out? Jace Herondale: Don't want to overstay our welcome. Magnus Bane: What welcome? I'd say it was a pleasure to meet you, but it wasn't. Not that you aren't all fairly charming, and as for you... (winks at Alec) Call me?

Magnus Bane: You want to know what it's like when your parents are good churchgoing folk and you happen to be born with the devil's mark? (points to his eyes) When your father flinches at the sight of you and your mother hangs herself in the barn, driven mad by what she's done? When I was ten, my father tried to drown me in the creek. I lashed out at him with everything I had... burned him where he stood. I went to the fathers of the church eventually, for sanctuary. They hid me. They say that pity's a bitter thing, but it's better than hate. When I found out what I was really, only half a human being, I hated myself. Anything's better than that.

Alec Lightwood: It wasn't your fault. You can't help how you're born.

Quote from The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones | Magnus Bane: You like the party? Clary Fairchild: Is it in honor of anything? Magnus Bane: My cat's birthday. Clary Fairchild: Oh. Where's your cat? Magnus Bane: I don't know. He ran away.

Magnus Bane: Come in. And try not to murder any of my guests.

Jace Herondale: Even if one of them spills a drink on my new shoes?

Magnus Bane: Even then. (Magnus plucks out stele from Jace's hand, surprising him) As for this, (slides the stele into Jace's jeans pocket) keep it in your pants, Shadowhunter.

Jace Herondale: Keep up, I don't want to have to keep looking behind me to make sure nothing's happened to you.

Clary Fairchild: So don't bother.

Jace Herondale: Last time I left you alone, a demon attacked you.

Clary Fairchild: Well, I'd certainly hate to interrupt your pleasant night stroll with my sudden death.

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