Cassandra Clare

Quotes

1. "A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance novel covers? The-"

2. 

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

3. 

   "I thought you guys said only some of the vampire bikes could fly?"

   "Only some of them can!"

   "How did you know this was one of them?"

   "I didn't!"

4. 

   "What?" Simon looked alarmed. "I'm not really sleeping with your mom, you know. I was just trying to get your attention. Not that your mom isn't a very attractive woman, for her age."

5. 

   "If you were half as funny as you thought you were, my boy, you'd be twice as funny as you are."

6. 

   "I didn't," said Jace. "At least, I didn't finish it. It's Magnus Bane." He grinned at Alec mockingly. "Rhymes with 'overcareful pain in the ass.'"

7. 

   "Well you'll have to wait 'til tomorrow. I'm out of commission." He pointed at himself. "Look. Jammies."

8. 

   "I figured all your classes were stuff like Slaughter 101 and Beheading for Beginners."

9. 

   "I suppose you don't have much time for enjoying music," Clary said, thinking of Simon, for whom music was his entire life, "in your line of work."

   He shrugged. "Maybe the occasional wailing chorus of the damned."

10. 

    "Where's Simon?" Clary interrupted.

    Isabelle wobbled. "He's a rat," she said darkly.

    "Did he do something to you?" Alec was full of brotherly concern. "Did he touch you? If he tried anything-"

    "No, Alec," Isabelle said irritably. "Not like that. He's a rat"

11. 

    "Yeah, well, you clearly also couldn't be bothered to call me and tell me you were shacking up with some dyed-blond wanna-be goth you probably met at Pandemonium. After I spent the past three days wondering if you were dead."

    "I was not shacking up," Clary said, glad of the darkness as the blood rushed to her face.

    "And my hair is naturally blond," said Jace. "Just for the record."

12. 

    "Well, when I was five, I wanted my mother to let me go around and around inside the dryer with the clothes," Clary said. "The difference is, she didn't let me."

    "Probably because going around and around inside a dryer can be fatal," Jace pointed out, "whereas pasta is rarely fatal. Unless Isabelle makes it."