“It means 'Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of our Enemies Since 1234'.”
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City of Bones A Novel
On New Year's Day, a dog finds a bone in the Hollywood Hills--and unearths a murder committed more than twenty years earlier. It's a cold case, but for Detective Harry Bosch, it stirs up memories of his childhood as an orphan. He can't let it go. As the investigation takes Bosch deeper into the past, a beautiful rookie cop brings him alive in the present. No official warning can break them apart--or prepare Bosch for the explosions when the case takes a few hard turns. Suddenly all of L.A. is in an uproar, and Bosch, fighting to keep control, is driven to the brink of an unimaginable decision.
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Michael Connelly
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“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)”
“Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.”
“Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.”
“A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance covers?”
“The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me.”
“The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”
“If there were such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood.”
“And next time you're planning to injure yourself to get me attention, just remember that a little sweet talk works wonders.”
“My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health.”
“Where there is love, there is often also hate. They can exist side by side.”
“Even in half demon hunter clothes, Clary thought, he looked like the kind of boy who'd come over your house to pick you up for a date and be polite to your parents and nice to your pets. Jac...”
“to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”
“That's why when major badasses greet each other in movies, they don't say anything, they just nod. The nod means, 'I' am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass,' but they don'...”
“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, an...”
“How can you tell? That I like books, I mean. The look on your face when you walked in, somehow I doubted you were that impressed by me.”
“I have a high pain threshold. In fact, it's more of a large and tastfully decorated foyer than a threshold. But I do get easily bored”
“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 not, but I don't think it matters. Either way we're on...”
“My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health.'-Jace 'Just break the door down, will you?'-Clary”
“Let me put it this way, my father believed in a righteous God. Deus volt, that was his motto- 'because God wills it.' It was the Crusaders' motto, and they went into battle and were slaughte...”
“Well I'd certainly hate to interrupt your pleasant night stroll with my sudden death.”
“All knowledge hurts.”
“Also, I'm sleeping with your mom. Just thought you should know.”
“Going round and around inside a dryer can be fatal, whereas pasta is rarely fatal. Unless Isabelle makes it.”