I have been a friend to Shadowhunters. I know many of your families, going back for hundreds of years.””There is nothing we can do to correct the questionable judgments of our ancestors,” Lucian said.Magnus hated...

You think that’s the solution to everything, don’t you, Bane? Drinking and dancing and making love… but I tell you this, something is coming, and we’d be fools to ignore it.””When have I ever claimed...

Hey, pretty thing,” he said. “What’s in the bag?””Holy water,” said Jace, reappearing beside her as if he’d been conjured up like a genie. A sarcastic blond genie with a bad attitude.”Oooh, a Shadowhunter,” said...

WHO CALLS UPON THE HIGH WARLOCK?

Nothing is permanent,” Magnus said. “I know this from experience. But you can get new things. You can meet new people. You can go on.

The man glanced down and made a face. “I see that many pigeons have pooped upon these stairs,” he remarked. “I shall remain standing, if that’s not too rude.

When Magnus looked at Imasu, he saw Imasu had dropped his head into his hands.”Er,” Magnus said. “Are you quite all right?””I was simply overcome,” Imasu said in a faint voice.Magnus preened slightly. “Ah. Well.””By...

Are you, monsieur, a man of your word?””It really depends upon the word,” Magnus said. “There are so many wonderful words…

It was a bit warm. Still. If one could look this fabulous, one had an obligation to. One should wear everything, or one should wear nothing at all.

It had been a whim, and there was nothing Magnus attached more importance to than a whim.

Well, I’m certainly not Ragnor Fell the exotic dancer.

that Jace killed him. That would put anyone off.

They always have to have the last word.

Alec slid his hand from Jace’s arm to his shoulder. Magnus cleared his throat. Alec dropped his hand. Simon grinned into his undrunk coffee.

He recognized and accepted this strange new feeling: that he would rather be hurt himself than hurt Alec.

If one could look this fabulous, one had an obligation to.

Coaxing drunken Shadowhunters into making fools of themselves was a favorite occupation among the Downworlders, and this performance had been a tremendous success.

How generous the universe could be, when he wanted to be!

I’m the warlock who’s here to cure you. Didn’t they tell you I was coming?””I know who you are, but…” Maia looked dazed. “You look so…so…shiny.

We’re not dating,” Alec said again.”Oh?” Magnus said. “So you’re just that friendly with everybody, is that it?

This is about Tessa. I knew it was.” Will flushed, a wash of color across the pallor of this face. “Not just her.””But you love her.”Will stared at him. “Of course I do,” he said...

But Alec is my future.

But it was mortality that made them what they were, the flame that blazed brighter for it’s flickering

I could shine at will!” Magnus grinned at Henry

Against his will, Magnus found a smile curving his lips as he rummaged around for his big blue coffee cup that said BETTER THAN GANDALF across the front in sparkly letters. He was besotted; he...

Oh, no. A story. This was perhaps too maudlin and too much for the early hour, but handsome and heart-broken young men could occasionally be indulged.

Eventually I fell asleep in the Rabies and Lycanthropy section. Woolsey bites on occasion, and I’m concerned.’ – Magnus Bane

But sleep didn’t come. She could hear Jace’s soft piano playing through the walls, but that wasn’t what was keeping her awake. She was thinking of Simon, leaving for a house that no longer felt...

I see that even as the world plunges into darkness and peril, you two stand around discussing your love lives. Teenagers.

This time Magnus answered it, his voice booming through the tiny entryway. “WHO DARES DISTURB MY REST?”Jace looked almost nervous. “Jace Wayland. Remember? I’m from the Clave.””Oh, yes.” Magnus seemed to have perked up. “Are...

I love round tables. They suit me so much better than a square.”Magnus, pg. 137

Vampires bore a grudge longer than any technically living creatures, and whenever they were in a bad temper, they expressed themselves through murder.

I’m Magnus.” He smiled, showing blinding white teeth.”Magnus Bane.””Are we long-lost friends, by any chance?” Simon said.”Just wondering.””No, we never got along all that well,” said Magnus.”Long-lost acquaintances? Compadres? My cat liked you.

Magnus had animated one of his magnificent Chinese fans, and it flapped ineffectively at him, barely stirring the breeze. It was, if he was completely honest with himself (and he did not want to be),...

I decided it was well past time to take him home and place him in bosom of his family. If you had rather I put him in an orphanage, I fully understand.

Moreover, I wish to assure you both that I did not make any amorous advances on female monkeys.

And who are all these people? There weren’t this many when I fell asleep.”Alfie shrugged, indicating that the universe was mysterious and nothing would ever be fully understood.

But the person who stepped out of the front door was tall and thin, with short, spiky dark hair. he was wearing a gold mesh vest and a pair of silk pajama pants. He regarded...

I hope you told him you were bitten by a gay spider.

Sweet pea?'” Alec said.”I was just trying it out.”Alec shook his head. “No.”Magnus shrugged. “I’ll keep at it.

I’m tired of watching you be in love with someone else someone who will never love you back, not the way I do.

I don’t remember ordering the bride of an evil maniac,” said Magnus. “It was definitely beef and broccoli. What about you, Tessa? Did you order the bride of an evil maniac?

Come with me.””Come with you? To Pandemonium? To the Void? And here I thought that my invitation to summer in New Jersey was the worst I had ever received.

She seemed shy, yet all her attention was focused on Magnus, as if he were the most fascinating thing she had ever seen. There was no man who did not want to see himself reflected...

–,Piensas que hay una oportunidad para él? –,Una oportunidad para quién? –Will Herondale. De que sea feliz.

Isabelle snorted, “All the boys are gay. In this truck, anyway. Well, not you, Simon.””You noticed,” said Simon. “I think of myself as a freewheeling bisexual,” added Magnus. “Please never say those words in front...

Honestly I don’t know why i have these parties””Because of your cat””That’s true. Chairman Meow deserves my every effort

As far as I’m concerned, this is the worst thing that’s happened since I found out why Magnus was banned from Peru.

It’s Simon. He’s missing.””Ah,” said Magnus, delicately, “missing what, exactly?””Missing,” Jace repeated, “as in gone, absent, notable for his lack of presence, disappeared.””Maybe he’s gone and hidden under something,” Magnus suggested. “It can’t be easy...

Niches set back in the walls contained polished marble statues of entwined bodies. Will looked away from them hastily, and then back. It wasn’t as if Magnus seemed to be paying attention to what Will...