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“she glanced down and saw that a glove of blood covered her lower arm from the elbow to the wrist. The arm
was throbbing, stiff, and painful.
"Is this when you start tearing strips off your T-shirt to bind up my wound?" she joked.
She hated the sight of blood, especially her own.
"If you wanted me to rip my clothes off, you should have just asked." He dug into his pocket and brought out
his stele. "It would have been a lot less painful.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“Raphael snapped, "This isn't funny."
"That's why no one's laughing." Jace stood, hauling Raphael upright, jamming the tip of his knife between Raphael's shoulder blades.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“She looked up from closing it to find Jace watching her through hooded eyes. “And one last thing,” he said. He reached over and pulled the sparking pins out of her hair, so that it fell in warm heavy curls down her neck. The sensation of hair tickling her bare skin was unfamiliar and oddly pleasant. “Much better,” he said, and she thought this time that maybe his voice was uneven too.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“If only Simon were here. He could probably bore you to sleep.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“All the stories are true”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“Have you fallen in love with wrong person yet?”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“Somehow he managed to look cool despite the heat. It made Clary want to smack him.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“What would demons," she said, "want with our microwave?”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“And there are vampires, too? Werewolves, warlocks, all that stuff?"
Clary gnawed her lower lip. "So I hear."
"And you kill them, too?" Simon asked, directing the question to Jace, who had put the stele back in his pocket and was examining his flawless nails for defects.
"Only when they've been naughty.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“Later, when his father left him, the boy cried over his pet, until eventually his father sent a servant to take the body of the bird away and bury it. The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“If you knew how to cook, maybe I would eat.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“I dont know," said Simon, "it doesn't sound so bad to me. I'd rather have someone mess around inside my head than chop it off."
"Then you're a bigger idiot than you look.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“Jace, on the other hand, looked like the sort of boy who'd come over to your house and burn it down for kicks.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“Just coffee. Black—like my soul.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“I'ts a girl" Jace said, recovering his composure. "Surely you've seen girls before, Alec. Your sister Isabelle is one.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“Clary, you're an artist, like your mother. That means you see the world in ways that other people don't. It's your gift, to see the beauty and the horror in ordinary things. It doesn't make you crazy — just different. There's nothing wrong with being different.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity