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""Don't order any of the faerie food," said Jace, looking at her over the top of his menu. "It tends to make humans a little crazy. One minute you're munching a faerie plum, the next minute you're running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not," he added hastily, "that this has ever happened to me.""
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)
"Clary: "Don't stop there. I suppose there are also, what, vampires and werewolves and zombies?"
Jace: "Of course there are. Although you mostly find zombies farther south, where the voudun priests are."
Clary: "What about mummies? Do they only hang around Egypt?"
Jace: "Don't be ridiculous. No one believes in mummies.""
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)
Jace: "Of course there are. Although you mostly find zombies farther south, where the voudun priests are."
Clary: "What about mummies? Do they only hang around Egypt?"
Jace: "Don't be ridiculous. No one believes in mummies.""
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)
"Magnus, standing by the door, snapped his fingers impatiently. "Move it along, teenagers. The only person who gets to canoodle in my bedroom is my magnificent self." "Canoodle?" repeated Clary, never having heard the word before. "Magnificent?" repeated Jace, who was just being nasty. Magnus growled. The growl sounded like "Get out.""
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)
""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." - Jace"
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)
duck, does it? And God help the poor bastard who decides they want to take a bath with the duckie." - Jace"
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)
""Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt," she told him.
"I can't help it. I use my rapier wit to hide my inner pain."
"Your pain will be outer soon if you don't get out of traffic. Are you trying to get run over by a cab?"
"Don't be ridiculous," he said. "We could never get a cab that easily in this neighborhood.""
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)
"I can't help it. I use my rapier wit to hide my inner pain."
"Your pain will be outer soon if you don't get out of traffic. Are you trying to get run over by a cab?"
"Don't be ridiculous," he said. "We could never get a cab that easily in this neighborhood.""
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)
"Get stuffed, don't you have more publicity stunts to pull?" Bones shot back. "How about chatting with another writer who can smear your name into greater popularity?"
"What, did Anne Rice not return your calls, mate?" Vlad asked scathingly. "Jealousy is such an ugly trait."
— Jeaniene Frost (At Grave's End)
"What, did Anne Rice not return your calls, mate?" Vlad asked scathingly. "Jealousy is such an ugly trait."
— Jeaniene Frost (At Grave's End)
"You called her Kitten? And she let you? She put me in a coma for three days when I
called her that! My balls never recovered from her smashing them into my spine!"
— Jeaniene Frost (One Foot in the Grave)
called her that! My balls never recovered from her smashing them into my spine!"
— Jeaniene Frost (One Foot in the Grave)
""He f**ks even better than he looks”, I settled on saying. Several heads turned. I didn’t care; I was pissed. “And that beautiful face is going to be clamped between my legs as soon as we get ooome, don’t you worry.
Cat to female admirer at Paris Opera"
— Jeaniene Frost (Destined for an Early Grave)
Cat to female admirer at Paris Opera"
— Jeaniene Frost (Destined for an Early Grave)
"The sh*t's gonna splatter, start buggin, yo..."
Mencheres to Cat"
— Jeaniene Frost (Destined for an Early Grave)
Mencheres to Cat"
— Jeaniene Frost (Destined for an Early Grave)
"Whatever would give you the idea that I'm her damn brother?"
— Jeaniene Frost (Halfway to the Grave)
— Jeaniene Frost (Halfway to the Grave)
"Don't care for her tongue, do you? How strange. I find it one of my favorite parts.
Bones to Gregor"
— Jeaniene Frost (Destined for an Early Grave)
Bones to Gregor"
— Jeaniene Frost (Destined for an Early Grave)
"Isabelle: I forgot thats what gets you all hot and botherd, Jace, girls killing things.
Jace: I like anyone killing things, especially me." he said with a smile "
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)
Jace: I like anyone killing things, especially me." he said with a smile "
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)
"He gave the body a final kick and then turned to face me.
“You and I need to talk, Kitten.”
“Now?” I asked in disbelief, gesturing to the dead vampire near his feet.
“It’s not like he’s going anywhere, so yeah. Now."
— Jeaniene Frost
“You and I need to talk, Kitten.”
“Now?” I asked in disbelief, gesturing to the dead vampire near his feet.
“It’s not like he’s going anywhere, so yeah. Now."
— Jeaniene Frost
""Bones has always been smart," I muttered. "His intelligence was just camouflaged under a mountain of p**sy."
Cat
"
— Jeaniene Frost (Destined for an Early Grave)
Cat
"
— Jeaniene Frost (Destined for an Early Grave)
"...you don't care because you're all that and I'm just an artery in a dress. "
— Jeaniene Frost (Halfway to the Grave)
— Jeaniene Frost (Halfway to the Grave)
"All I'm saying is that sooner of later, you'll have to come to terms with yourself. You can't wish away the vampire in you, and you shouldn't keep atoning for it. You should figure out who you a re and what you need, and then don't apologize for it. Not to me, to your mum, or to anyone."
— Jeaniene Frost (Halfway to the Grave)
— Jeaniene Frost (Halfway to the Grave)
""I Dont want to grow up, i want to be an angst ridden teenager who cant confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead" (Jace)
"
— Cassandra Claire
"
— Cassandra Claire
"What did dead mean, Ray wondered. It meant lost, it meant frozen, it meant
gone."
— Alice Sebold (The Lovely Bones)
gone."
— Alice Sebold (The Lovely Bones)
"Why did you tell her I'm your boyfriend? Why doesn't she know about your real one? - Timmy
He's English! And Mom...Mom hates foreigners!
- Cat"
— Jeaniene Frost (Halfway to the Grave)
He's English! And Mom...Mom hates foreigners!
- Cat"
— Jeaniene Frost (Halfway to the Grave)
"“Well, as my dad would say, it means she’s out of this shithole.”"
— Alice Sebold (The Lovely Bones)
— Alice Sebold (The Lovely Bones)
"Next to her, I felt like Carrot Top in drag.
Cat re: Annette"
— Jeaniene Frost (Destined for an Early Grave)
Cat re: Annette"
— Jeaniene Frost (Destined for an Early Grave)
""The lustful glances thrown his way made me wish he wasn’t such a damned bowl of eye candy."
- Cat re: Bones"
— Jeaniene Frost (Destined for an Early Grave)
- Cat re: Bones"
— Jeaniene Frost (Destined for an Early Grave)
"Inside the snow globe on my father's desk, there was a penguin wearing a red-and-white-stripe scarf. When I was little, my father would pull me into his lap and reach for the snow globe. He would turn it over, -letting all the snow collect on the top, then quickly invert it. The two of us watched the snow fall gently around the penguin. The penguin was alone in there, I thought, and I worried for him. When I told my father this, he said, 'Don't worry, Susie. He has a nice life. He's trapped in a perfect world.'
"
— Alice Sebold
"
— Alice Sebold
"Where are you, bloodsuckers? Here, fangy, fangy, fangy..."
— Jeaniene Frost (One Foot in the Grave)
— Jeaniene Frost (One Foot in the Grave)
"The whole point of the week is the weekend."
— Angela Montenegro (Bones)
— Angela Montenegro (Bones)
"I hoped he was right, but one thing I've learned about vampires-they keep pulling new rabbits out of their cloaks. Big, fanged, carnivorous bunnies that'll eat your eyeballs if you're not paying attention."
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Bloody Bones (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #5))
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Bloody Bones (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #5))
"'My father was English. He date-raped my mother so she's hated English men ever since. You know my boyfriend's English, and I'm, uh, I'm half-English, which she's never been real happy about. If she finds out I'm dating someone English, she'll ah, think I' turning my back on her and becoming a foreigner.'
'Cathy, that's the stupidest reason I've ever heard.'"
— Jeaniene Frost (Halfway to the Grave)
'Cathy, that's the stupidest reason I've ever heard.'"
— Jeaniene Frost (Halfway to the Grave)
""Wrong way, Bones. The men's showers are in the opposite direction."
"I'll file that away with all the other information that doesn't pertain to me" was Bones' mocking reply."
— Jeaniene Frost (One Foot in the Grave)
"I'll file that away with all the other information that doesn't pertain to me" was Bones' mocking reply."
— Jeaniene Frost (One Foot in the Grave)
"Souls grow on bones but die beneath bankers' hours..."
— Gabriel Thy
— Gabriel Thy
"Objectively I'd say I'm very smart, although it has nothing to do with my ass. "
— Dr. Temperance Brennan
— Dr. Temperance Brennan
"“Care to see your room?” -Bones
“Let me guess—it’s that smashed‐up car right over there." -Cat"
— Jeaniene Frost (Destined for an Early Grave)
“Let me guess—it’s that smashed‐up car right over there." -Cat"
— Jeaniene Frost (Destined for an Early Grave)
""I see you and Crispin resolved your differences. Indeed, the pair of you kept the whole house up last night""
— 'Spade' Jeaniene Frost
— 'Spade' Jeaniene Frost
"I figured it out. In my head. While eating a cup-a-soup."
— BONES
— BONES
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"I'd address his way of trying to discourage Ian later. After all, he could have come up with something other than saying I was a whiny, smelly, trumpet-snoring bad lay."
— Jeaniene Frost (One Foot in the Grave)
— Jeaniene Frost (One Foot in the Grave)
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