Stripping the protection wards off the ship was bad enough—it’s a strong, strong enchantment, demon-based—but when you fell, I had to put a fast spell on the truck so it wouldn’t sink when I lost...

There was no point in wallowing. Magnus refused towallow. Wallowing was for elephants, depressing people, and depressing elephants.

Somebody incredibly attractive just came into the room, and I ceased to pay attention to a word you were saying.

I’ll need you to get a leash for my monkey, Claude, and also a hat.””Of course, monsieur””Do you think he needs a little coat as well?””Perhaps not in this weather, monsieur.””You are right,” Magnus said...

There was a brief pause for them to evaluate the full horror of the situation. Magnus. personally, was in horror up to his elbows.

There’s no need to clarify my finger snap,” said Magnus. “The implication was clear in the snap itself.

There was no way possible [the queen] could have done all of the things the pamphleteers claimed. The crimes were too gross, too immoral and far too physically challenging. Magnus himself had never attempted half...

A pair of werewolves occupied another booth. They were eating raw shanks of lamb and arguing about who would win in a fight: Dumbledore from Harry Potter books or Magnus Bane.”Dumbledore would totally win,” said...

She unwrapped the blanket when she came in my door. You were inside it. She set you down on the floor and you started ranging around, picking things up, pulling my cat’s tail—you screamed like...

I was going to watch Project Runway,” said Jace. “It’s on next.””No, you’re not,” said Magnus. He snapped his fingers and the TV went off, releasing a small puff of smoke as the picture died....

You asked me how I, being immortal, survive somany deaths. There is no great secret. You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.

If you don’t want them to find you, changing your last name seems a fairly elementary first step. Trust me, I’m an expert. I’ve watched a lot of spy movies.

I can see that,” he said. “Armed to the teeth, as it were.

The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away.

Hello, companion,” said Magnus.The monkey made a terrible sound, half snarl and half hiss.”I begin to rather doubt the beauty of our friendship,” said Magnus.

I didn’t call you because I’m tired of you only wanting me around when you need something. I’m tired of watching you be in love with someone else – someone, incidentally, who will never love...

The only way you could raise enough money to hire Magnus by selling lemonade is if you put meth in it.

Children of the Nephilim,” Magnus said. “Well, well. I don’t recall inviting you.”Isabelle took out her invitation and waved it like a white flag. “I have an invitation. These”–she indicated the rest of the group...

How can you not care?””Practice,” Magnus said, looking back to his book and turning the page.

He hadn’t stopped wanting love. He had simply, somehow, stopped looking.

You know, there’s a reason we can remember,” [Catarina] said more softly.”That’s much easier when your life has an expiration date.””It may be more important for us.

Being remembered, and remembered so kindly, touched him more than he would have thought possible.

It’s me. I mean, Alec. Alec Lightwood.”There was a sort of silence, as if even the hallway itself were surprised. Then a ping, and the second door opened, letting him out onto the stairwell. He...

He held her close enough to kiss, close enough to whisper the most important secrets in the world, and he spoke to her as he would have wanted some good angel to speak to his...

It was hidden inside another book. One Valentine was unlikely to ever open.” Magnus smiled crookedly. “Simple Recipes for Housewives. No one can say your mother didn’t have a sense of humor.

His loyalty is to me.

Wear that scarf,” he said, pointing to a blue cashmere scarf hanging on a peg. “It matches your eyes.”Alec looked at it. Suddenly he was filled with hate – for the scarf, for Magnus, and...

It is always better to live the truth than to live a lie. And that lie would have kept him alone forever. He may have had nearly nothing for 5 years, but now he can...

It was one thing to have a demon for a parent. It was another thing when your father owned a significant portion of Hell’s real estate.

They had met at a club fifteen years before, Etta and Magnus. He had convinced her to dance with him, and she said she had been in love by the end of the song. He...

When one steals a flying balloon and animates it to fly over Paris, one should, ideally, have some idea how said balloon normally works.

In Paris one could have the eyes of a cat (as he did) and tell people it was a trick of fashion.

I’ve got the Mark of Cain,” said Simon. “That means nothing can kill me, right?””You can kill yourself,” Magnus said, somewhat unhelpfully. “As far as I know, inanimate objects can accidentally kill you. So if...

Magnus reached for Alec, but instead of rising to his feet, he pulled Alec against him, his hand sliding up Alec’s back to knot in his hair. Magnus pulled Alec down and against him, and...

Like a lovely vase that someone has smashed. Only luck and skill can put it back together the way it was before.

They’re still looking at him,” she said to Magnus under her breath. “At Will, I mean.””Of course they are,” said Magnus. His eyes reflected light like a cat’s as they surveyed the room. “Look at...

If love were food, I would have starved on the bones you gave me

Though the color would be fetching on him

I don’t like the rain forest,” Ragnor said sadly.”That’s because you are not open to new experiences in the same way I am!””No, it is because it is wetter than a boar’s armpit and twice...

The rich bought wonderful clothes you recognized. The richest had their pople go to Paris and buy the entire new collection that no one outside of the fashion house has seen.

Magnus, you were trying to flirt with your own plate.””I’m a very open-minded sort of fellow!

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.