Our fathers were demons,’ Catarina said. ‘Our mothers were heroes.

Magnus’s eyes gleamed. “He seems to like you. I saw him going for your hand out there like a squirrel diving for a peanut.

Even the trip throught the Portal had not disarranged Magnus’s hair spikes. He tugged on one proudly. “Check it out”, he said to Isabelle.”Magic?””Hair gel. $3.99 at Ricky’s.

You have to stop playing hard to get, Alexander. It makes things difficult.” He grinned.

I’m Magnus Bane.” he went on in a soothing tone, stretching out his ringed hands. Blue sparks had begun to dance between them like bioluminescence dancing water. “I’m the warlock who’s here to cure you....

You no longer need other people in your life once you have found your true love.

I see you’re trying to distract me from the real point here,” Magnus said instead. “You had a birthday – a perfect excuse for me to throw one of my famous parties – and you...

“Someday,” Magnus said, looking at the crumpled royal person at his feet, “I must write my memoirs.”

The letter I received said you had need of my particular talents, but I must confess that I have so many talents that I am not sure which one you require.

What he needs now is to love and have that love returned.

[Magnus] held on to the boy, newborn in grave dirt and blood, and he wished that he had found him dead.

All Lightwoods look the same to me.

I have a feeling you’re right, Sherwin.”Simon. My name is Simon.

You tried to drink the East River,”Magnus said, and Alec saw, as if for the first time, that Magnus’s clothes were soaking wet too, sticking to his body like a dark second skin.

So I’m your first ever Shadowhunter, huh?” Alec said when they separated at last.”You’re my first so many things, Alec Lightwood.

I need some beef and broccoli before I face any more Mr. Darcy. It’s a truth universally acknowledged that if you watch too much television on am empty stomach, your head falls off.” “If your...

The Nephilim – the bogeyman for monsters, and all those who could be monsters.

Ladies who were no better than they should be, whose dresses were too tight, too bright and too all the things Magnus liked most, lounged on velvet-covered benches along the walls.

And down she walked along the street,A handsome lad she hoped to meetAnd sore by dawn were her dainty feetBut all the boys were gay.

That’s your truck parked up by the factory isn’t it?” Magnus pointed. “It’s awfully butch for a bookseller.

Raphael’s hand tightened on the hilt of the knife. His knuckles were white. He spoke to Magnus. “I have no soul,” he said. “But I made you a promise on my mother’s doorstep, and she...

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 of my...

But the name Magnus Bane made him think of a towering sort of figure, with huge shoulders and formal purple warlock’s robes, calling down fire and lightning. Not Magnus himself, who was more of a...

Why don’t we talk about your love life? Clary countered.”What about you and Alec?””Alec refuses to acknowledge that we have a relationship, and so I refuse to acknowledge him. He sent me a fire message...

Everyone has the potential to be extraordinary. As long as you have a soul and free will, you can be anything, do anything, choose anything.

To them, as to Magnus, time was like rain, glittering as it fell, changing the world, but something that could also be taken for granted.

It was a very bad idea. It was a terrible idea. It was the worst idea he had ever heard. It was irresistible.

Alex- Alec, if I had given you the impression I had accepted the idea of your death, I can only apologize. I tried to, I thought I had- and yet still I pictured having you...

What if everything you believe is wrong and you could still be loved and still be forgiven?

You’re a Shadowhunter,” he said. “You know how to deal with injuries.” He slid his stele across the table toward her. “Use it.””No,” Clary said, and pushed the stele back across the table at him.Jace...

Just ask Clary.

There might simply be nothing going on that might activate it. Perhaps there isn’t anything here that Alec is afraid of.”Magnus glanced at Alec and raised his eyebrows. “Boo.”Luke and Magnus, pg. 285

The warlock’s gaze, on the flames, was remote and distant, as if he were looking back into the past. Simon couldn’t help but remember what Magnus had said to him once, about living forever:Someday you...

Whatever it is, don’t do it!” said Catarina. “It’s a bad idea.” “And why do you say that?””Because they’re the only kind you have,” she said. ” I have known you a long time, and...

You are aware that the sale of liquore is currently against the law.” Edgar went on, “but I suppose that is why you enjoy it.””Everyone should have a hobby or two,” Magnus said. “Mine just...

I want my people to be protected, strong, and not to be driven into corners until they either become killers or are killed!

Ragnor and Catarina both begged him to give the instrument up. Random strangers on the street begged him to give the instrument up. Even cats ran away from him.

Malachi scowled. “I don’t remember the Clave inviting you into the Glass City, Magnus Bane.””They didn’t,” Magnus said. “Your wards are down.””Really?” the Consul’s voice dripped sarcasm. “I hadn’t noticed.”Magnus looked concerned. “That’s terrible. Someone...

Every teenager in the world feels like that, feels broken or out of place, different somehow, royalty mistakenly born into a family of peasants. The difference in your case is that it’s true.

You never called me back,” he said. “I called you so many times and you never called me back.”Magnus looked at Alec as if he’d lost his mind. “Your city is under attack,” he said....

As for this,” Magnus said sliding the stele into Jace’s jeans pocket, “keep it in your pants, Shadowhunter.” – 219

You want a round table meeting, we can have a round table meeting.””I love round tables,” said Magnus brightly. “They suit me so much better than square.

Is there any reason you wish to preserve amity with the Shadowhunters, besides the fact that one of them is your lover?

High Warlock of Brooklyn and Scrabble champion.

What is Aldous capable of?””Aldous is two thousands years old. He’s capable of anything.””Aldous Nix is two thousands years old?””So, I’ve heard. He doesn’t invite me to his birthday parties.

The conviction that everyone in this house must be dead had gained such a hold on Magnus that it was a shock when the woman who had summoned him here opened the door.

quiet place.” He recalled even more vividly being obscenely drunk and unhappy over his heartbreak of that time, and the maudlin thoughts that had recurred to him over the years, like an unwanted guest slipping...

So it’s true what they say about warlocks, then?”Alec gave him a very unpleasant look. “What’s true?””Alexander,” said Magnus coldly, and Clary met Simon’s eyes across the table. Hers were wide, green, and full of...

I’ve got a stele we can use. Who wants to do me?””A regrettable choice of words,” muttered Magnus.

Magnus gazed dreamily in his direction. “You should leave him here. I could hang hats on him and things.