42 quotes
"Just because you call an electric eel a rubber duck doesn't make it a rubber duck, does it? And God help the poor bastard who decides they want to take a bath with the duckie."
City of Bones (2007)
"I've never asked, but I'm sure he has a fairly stringent policy about random teenagers lurking in his shrubbery."
City of Bones (2007)
"I always thought cab drivers didn't pay attention to traffic, but this is ridiculous,"
City of Bones (2007)
"He's probably never met a six-foot-tall hot elf-woman in a fur bikini, either,"
City of Bones (2007)
"Good idea," said Jace. "I shall be Baron Hotschaft Von Hugenstein."
City of Bones (2007)
"You know, most psychologists agree that hostility is really just sublimated sexual attraction."
"Ah, that might explain why I so often run into people who seem to dislike me."
City of Bones (2007)
"I figured all your classes were stuff like Slaughter 101 and Beheading for Beginners."
City of Bones (2007)
"She was afraid you'd freak out? Start seeing demons in the White House?"
City of Bones (2007)
"Maybe. Although I doubt most Shadowhunters get a tattoo of Donatello from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on their left shoulder."
City of Bones (2007)
"It's the Mortal Cup, Jace, not the Mortal Toilet Bowl."
City of Bones (2007)
"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!"
City of Bones (2007)
"So she had a box. Lots of people have boxes. They keep things in them. It's a growing trend, I hear."
City of Bones (2007)
"Hodge sent me to wake you up. Actually, he offered to wake you up himself, but since it's five a.m., I figured you'd be less cranky if you had something nice to look at."
City of Bones (2007)
He cut his glance toward Jace, who was walking a few paces ahead of them, apparently conversing with the cat. Clary wondered what they were talking about. Politics? Opera? The high price of tuna?
City of Bones (2007)
"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."
City of Bones (2007)
"Vials of holy water, blessed knives, steel and silver blades, electrum wire-- not much use at the moment, but it's always good to have a spare--silver bullets, charm of protection, crucifixes, stars of David-"
"Jesus," said Clary.
"I doubt he'd fit."
City of Bones (2007)
"Well you'll have to wait 'til tomorrow. I'm out of commission." He pointed at himself. "Look. Jammies."
City of Bones (2007)
"If there was such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood,"
City of Bones (2007)
That sounds terrific. Just you, your comatose wife, your shell-shocked son, and you 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.
City of Bones (2007)
"A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance novel covers? The-"
City of Bones (2007)