City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)

by Cassandra Clare

“If you were half as funny as you thought you were, my boy, you’d be twice as funny as you are.”

If there was one thing she was learning from all this, it was how easy it was to lose everything you had always thought you’d have forever.

“Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt,”

that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”

“that I think I was unsettled by the idea of feeling like I belonged anywhere. But you made me feel like I belong.”