These are some of my favorite quotes from City of Ashes and their pages ***May contain some spoilers "Just because you said dragon demons were extinct-" "I said mostly extinct." Alec jabbed a finger toward him. "Mostly extinct," he said, his voice trembling with rage, "is NOT EXTINCT ENOUGH." "I see," said Jace. "I'll just have them change the entry in the demonology text book from 'almost extinct' to 'not extinct enough for Alec. He prefers his monsters really, really extinct.' Will that make you happy." pg. 10 "How do you manage never to get mud on you?" Isabelle shrugged philosophically. "I'm pure at heart. It repels the dirt." Jace snorted so loudly that she turned on him with a frown. He wiggled his mud-caked at her. His nails were black crescents. "Filthy inside and out." pg. 10 Usually, I'm remarkably good natured. Try me on any day that doesn't end in y." pg. 43 "I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead." "Well," said Luke, "you're doing a fantastic job." pg.44 "It just shines out of you," she said, a little bitterly, "your humanity." pg.51 "Well that's convenient," said Jace. "I guess blessings are easier to come by than I thought. Maybe I should ask for blessings on my mission against all thoes who wear white after Labor Day." pg.53 "I only had five slices," Simon protested, leaning his chair backward so it balanced precariously on it's to back legs. “ How many do slices do you think were in a pizza, dork?” Clary wanted to know. “Less than five slices isn't an meal. It's a snack.” Simon looked apprehensively at Luke. “Does this mean your going to wolf out and eat me?” “Certainly not.” Luke rose to toss the pizza box into the trash. “You would be stringy and hard to digest.” “But kosher,” Simon pointed out cheerfully.
"I'll be sure to point any Jewish lycanthropes your way." pg. 69
"You have something on your neck," he observed.
Alec's hand flew to his throat. "What?"
"Looks like a bite mark," said Jace. "What have you been doing all day, anyway?"
"Nothing." Beet red, his hand still clamed to his neck, Alec started down the corridor. Jace followed him. "I went walking in the park. Tried to clear my head."
"And ran into a vampire?"
"What? No! I fell."
"On your neck?" pg.73
"Actually," said Jace, "I prefer to think that I'm a liar in a way uniquely my own."
pg.77
"The cuckoo bird," she said. "You see, cuckoos are parasites. They lay their eggs in other bird's nest. When the egg hatches, the baby cuckoo pushes the other baby birds out of the nest. The poor parent birds work themselves to to death trying to find enough food to feed the the enormous cuckoo child who has murder their babies and taken their places."
"Enormous?" said Jace. "Did you just call me fat?"
"It was an analogy."
"I am not fat." pg.78
"Yes," Jace said, unable to help himself, "I was trained to be an evil mastermind from a young age. Pulling the wings off flies, poisoning the earth's water supply- I was covering that stuff in kindergarten. I guess we're all just lucky my father faked his own death before he got to the raping and pillaging part of my education, or no one would be safe." pg.79
"Yeah," Jace said, "he's terrified I'll tell everyone that he's always wanted to be a ballerina."
pg.123
"Is he dead?" he inquired. "He looks dead."
"No," snapped Maryse. "He's not dead."
"Have you checked? I could kick him if you want." Magnus moved toward Jace.
pg.126
"We came to see Jace," Clary said. "Is he all right."
"I don't know," Magnus said. "Does he normally just lie on the floor like that without moving?"
pg.135
Nearly unlimited supernatural power," he said, "and all you do is use it to watch reruns. What a waste."
"Also, TiVo accomplishes much the same thing," pointed out Simon.
"My way is cheaper." Magnus clapped his hands together and the room was suddenly flooded with light. Jace, slumped in the chair, raised an arm to cover his face. "Can you do that without magic.?"
"Actually," said Simon, "yes. If you watched infomercials you'd know that." pg.136
Magnus snapped his fingers again, menacingly. "Get up."
"Or you'll be the next one to go up in smoke," said Simon with relish.
"There's no need to clarify my finger snap," said Magnus. "The implication was clear in the snap itself." pg.137
"Is standing by the window muttering about blood something he does all the time?"
"No," said Jace, "sometimes he sits on the couch and does it." pg.139
"She said she doesn't want it," said Simon. "Haha."
"Ha-ha?" Jace looked incredulous. "That's your comeback." pg.144
Isabelle looked dubious. "Mom and Dad won't be pleased if they find out."
"That you freed a possible criminal by trading away your brother to a warlock who looks like a gay Sonic the Hedgehog and dresses like the Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Band Bang?" Simon inquired. "No probably not." pg.150
"Oooh, that was fun."
"That does it," said Jace. "I'm going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year."
"Why?" Isabelle said.
"So you can look up 'fun'. I'm not sure you know it means."
Isabelle pulled the long heavy mass of wet hair forward and wrung it out as if it were wet washing. "You're raining on my parade."
"It's a pretty wet parade already, if you you haven't noticed." pg.155
"Faeries have no sense of humor."
"Oh, I wouldn't say that," said Jace. "There's a pixie nightclub downtown called Hot Wings. Not," he added, "that I have ever been there." pg.158
"Well, I'm not kissing the mundane," said Jace. "I'd rather stay down here and rot."
"Forever?" said Simon. "Forever's an awfully long time."
Jace raised his eyebrows. "I knew it," he said. "You want to kiss me, don't you?"
Simon threw up his hands in exasperation. "Of course not. But if-"
"I guess it's true what they say," observed Jace. "There are no straight men in the trenches."
"That's atheists, jack***," said Simon furiously. "There are no atheists in the trenchs."
pg.171
"What do you want me to tell you? The truth? The truth is that I love like Simon like I should love you, and I wish he was my brother and you weren't, but I can't do anything about that and neither can you! Or do you have some ideas, since you're so smart?" pg.181
"It's not often you get to see someone drool," Jace observed. "Especially with such total abandon. Mouth wide open and everything." pg.185
I remember you saying that growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you can change. I guess that means I've grown up now. pg.209
"Love takes your choices away." pg.211
"Mom. I have something to tell you. I'm undead. Now, I know you may have some preconceived notions about the undead. I know you may not be comfortable with the idea of me being undead. But I'm here to tell you that the undead are just like you and me." Simon paused. Well, okay. Possibly more like me than you."
"SIMON."
"All right, all right." He went on. "The first thing you need to understand is that I'm the same person I always was. Being undead isn't the most important thing about me. It's just part of who I am. The second thing you should know is that it isn't a choice. I was born this way." Simon squinted at her over the pamphlet. "Sorry, reborn this way." pg.218
"I think I liked 'mundane' better than 'bloodsucker'," Simon muttered.
"With Jace, you don't really get to choose your insulting nickname." pg.234
"We're not dating," Alec said again.
"Oh?" Magnus said, "So you're just that friendly to everybody, is that it?" pg.241
Maybe it was true what the Seelie Queen had said, after all: Love made you a liar.
pg.247
"Were you there all night?" he asked Alec.
"No," Alec said. "I went home and then came back. I'm wearing different clothes, aren't I? Look."
Everyone looked. Alec was wearing a dark sweater and jeans, which was exactly what he'd been wearing the day before. pg.276
"I've got a stele we can use. Who wants to do me?"
"A regrettable chaice of words," muttered Magnus. pg.283
Perhaps there isn't anything here that Alec is afraid of."
Magnus glanced at Alec and raised his eyebrows. "Boo," he said.
Jace was grinning . "Come on, surely you've got a phobia or two. What scares you?"
Alec thought for a moment. "Spiders," he said.
Clary turned to Luke. "Have you a spider anywhere?"
Luke looked exasperated. "Why would I have a spider? Do I look like someone who would collect them?"
"No offense," Jace said, "but you kind of do." pg.285
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