53 The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones Quotes (2024)

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones

Clary Fray: You play that piano as if you've lost your only love.
Jace Wayland: Unfortunately, my one true love remains myself.
Clary Fray: Well, at least you don't have to worry about rejection.
Jace Wayland: Not necessarily. I turn myself down occasionally, just to keep it interesting

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Clary Fray: This is the part where you start tearing off pieces of your shirt to bind my wounds.
Jace Wayland: If you wanted me to take my clothes off, you should have just asked.

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones

Jocelyn Fray: Jesus!
Simon Lewis: No, just me.

#Fray

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Jace Wayland: Next time, it might be a nice idea to mention that you already have a man in your bed, so we can avoid such uncomfortable situations.
Simon Lewis: You invited him to bed?
Jace Wayland: I know, it's ridiculous, isn't it? We would never have all fit.
Clary Fray: I didn't invite him into bed. We

were just kissing.
Jace Wayland: How swiftly you dismiss our love.

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones

Jace Wayland: Don't tell me. You've got a drawing emergency, and you need a nude model. I'm not in the mood.

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Luke: I'm a werewolf, not a Golden Retriever.

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones

Isabelle Lightwood: Doesn't she look great, Alec?
Alec Lightwood: She looks like someone whose phone number should be on a bathroom wall.

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones

Jace Wayland: For the record, my hair is naturally blonde.

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones

Jace Wayland: [introduces himself] Jace Wayland, demon hunter.
Simon Lewis: Ah... Simon Lewis, Keymaster. Are you the Gatekeeper?
Jace Wayland: I have no idea what you're talking about.

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[last lines]
Clary Fray: I just don't know how to look at the world anymore. I don't see street and traffic lights and cars. I see demons and angels. Everything's different.
Jace Wayland: The world's the same. You're the one who's different.
Jace Wayland: [starts his motorcycle] Don't you remember what Hodge said?

Clary Fray: What?
Jace Wayland: All the stories are true.
[they ride off together]

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Clary Fray: How is being dressed like a hooker going to help me find my mom?
Isabelle Lightwood: Easy now, those are my clothes.

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Simon Lewis: The werewolves are here to save us. Never thought I'd say that.

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones

[from trailer]
Jace Wayland: [to Clary] You have an incredible gift and we need you... I need you.

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones

Clary Fray: [to Dorothea] Wait, you can see this guy?
Jace Wayland: Of course she can, she's a witch.
[pushing their way in]
Jace Wayland: Downgraded from a gingerbread house to a one-bedroom?

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[Isabelle almost chops Luke's head off with a sword, but stops in the nick of time, with the sword to his throat]
Isabelle Lightwood: I almost killed you!
Luke: [dryly] Yeah!

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones

Isabelle Lightwood: This place is full of demons.
Luke: That's impossible. The Institute is hallowed ground.
Simon Lewis: No one seems to have told them that.

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones

[from trailer]
Simon Lewis: You killed two cops!
Jace Wayland: They weren't cops!

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Valentine Morgenstern: Somebody told me that you like to play music.
[smashes Jace's head twice into the piano tangents]
Valentine Morgenstern: Johann would be very proud.

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[from trailer]
Hodge Starkweather: Everything you've heard... about monsters, about nightmares, legends whispered around campfires. All the stories are true.