More quotes by Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

"And when I saw him[my father] lying dead in a pool of his own blood, I knew then that I hadn't stopped believing in God. I'd just stopped believing God cared. There might be a God, Clary, and there might be not. Either way, we're on our own."
"I'm not unhappy,"he said. "Only people with no purpose are unhappy. I've got a purpose."
"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 Wayland)"
"to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed."
"The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me."