Whatever,” said Ragnor. “Raphael would never date a Shadowhunter.””Of course, why would he, when you two are in looove?” Magnus asked. “‘Oooh, Raphael is always so professional.’ ‘Oooh, Raphael brought up the most interesting points...

Love did not overcome everything. Love did not always endure. All you had could be taken away, love could be the last thing you had, and then love could be taken too.

Let me say to you what I said once, in an entirely different context to Catherine the Great,” Magnus declared. “My dear lady, you cannot afford me,and also, please leave that horse alone. Good night.

That was what humans did: They left on another messages through time, pressed between pages or carved into rock. Like reaching out a hand through time, and trusting in a phantom hoped-for hand to catch...

Magnus didn’t really want this kind of thing this early in the morning – this talk of aching memories and wanting to forget. This conversation needed to end, now.

There were some feelings you never forgot.

Those of you who are mortal, you burn so fiercely. And you fiercer than most, Will. I will not ever forget you.”.

I am brave,” Will said…”Yes, you are,” Magnus said, and kissed him. It wasn’t the most dramatic kiss, but Will failed his free arm as if a bee had landed on him; Magnus had to...

The Clave would let you do anything you wanted. Look, everyone loves you.” He gestured out at the room full of Shadowhunters. They were all cheering as Robert spoke, some of them wiping away tears....

Magnus, remember what happened the last time you tried to tango. Your shoe flew off and nearly killed someone.””It was a metaphor. He’s a Shadowhunter, he’s a Lightwood, and he’s into blonds. He’s a dating...

Magnus hoped if he ever went mad like that himself, so mad that he poisoned the very air round him and hurt everyone he came into contact with, that there would be someone ho loved...

Vampires, fey folk, werewolves, Shadowhunters, and demons – these things made sense to Magnus. But the mundane world – it seemed to have no pattern, no form. Their quicksilver politics. Their short lives…

Woolsey bites on occasion

We seemed to be trapped in an episode of One Life To Waste. It’s all very dull.

That seems like stealing, doesn’t it?” Simon pulled a cup toward him. He drew the lid back. “Ooh. Mochaccino.” He looked at Magnus. “Did you pay for these?””Sure,” said Magnus, while Jace and Alec snickered....

You made me want more than that. You showed me I was only ever cursed because I had chosen to believe myself so. You told me there was possibility, meaning. And now you would turn...

Anywhere you want. Thailand, South Carolina, Brazil, Peru – Oh, wait, no, I’m banned from Peru. I’d forgotten about that. It’s a long story, but amusing if you want to hear it.

He’d learned his lesson a long time ago: Even in the midst of heartbreak, you could still find yourself laughing.

I have known you a long time, and I am absolutely certain on this subject. If you are planning to become a pirate again, it’s a bad idea.

The monster’s bride at his door. Magnus could not stop staring. [Jocelyn] was staring too. She seemed transfixed by his pajamas. Magnus was frankly offended. He had not invited any wives of crazed hate-cult leader...

[Magnus] stumbled over a few people to the phone, only to find that he had actually reached for a large decorative cigarette dispenser. It was possible he was not quite at his best either.

Pointless, needless suffering and pain? I don’t suppose it would help if I told you that was the way life is. The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away.

Magic or nature, they were much the same thing to Magnus.

We came to see Jace. Is he alright?””I don’t know,” Magnus said. “Does he normally just lie on the floor like that without moving?

Magnus sighed. “Alexander, I’ve been alive for hundreds of years. I’ve been with men, been with women – with faeries and warlocks and vampires, and even a djinn or two.” He looked sideways at Maryse,...

Magnus snapped his fingers again, menacingly. “Get up.””Or you’ll be the next one to go up in smoke,” said Simon with relish.”There’s no need to clarify my finger snap. The implication was clear in the...

You serve a greater cause. Your life is not yours to throw away (Magnus Bane)

I would, at any rate, but then, I am well known to be remarkably shy.

Magnus did not take such suffering lightly, but even mortals did not die of broken hearts. No matter how cruel Grace had been, he told himself, James would heal. Even though he was a Herondale.

[Will Herondale] would say he knew a warlock who was a better friend, and more worth trusting, than many a nephilim warrior.

He carefully maintained the blasé air of one who had been here before and had been incredibly well dressed that time too

It would be ironic, Magnus thought, terribly and cruelly ironic, for one Herondale to be saved by love, and another Herondale damned by it.

One did not turn down an invitation from Saint Cloud. At least, one didn’t if one wanted to continue living contentedly in Paris. Vampires took offense so easily – and Parisian vampires were the worst...

Alec remembers my name,” said Simon, and he set the bottle back down.

I’ve known parabatai so close they were almost the same person; do you know what happens, when one of them dies, to the one that’s left —?

Where’s Magnus?” he said. AS he looked toward the kitchen, Clary saw a bruise on his jaw, below his ear, about the size of a thumbprint. “Alec!” Magnus came skidding into the living room and...

Magnus had been alive hundreds of years himself, and yet the simplest things could turn a day into a jewel, and a succession of days into a glittering chain that went on and on. Here...

Maryse: I am fighting for a better world for myself and my son.Magnus: I have no interest in the world you want or in your doubteless repellent brat, I might add.

What are you?The voice came from nowhere. It was in the room. It was outside. It was in Magnus’s head.”A warlock,” Magnus answered. “And what are you?”We are many.”Please do not say you are a...

[Magnus] reminded himself of his manners, and bowed. “Charmed,” he said. “Or whatever effect would please you best, I’m sure.

Me siento responsable por ese muchacho. Si él nunca encuentra la felicidad, sentiré que le he fallado. Si no puede tener a la chica que ama, sentiré que le he fallado. Si no puedo conservar...

You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.

… We are Nephilim; we fight our own battles.” “That’s not precisely true, is it?” said a velvety voice. It was Magnus Bane, wearing a long and glittering coat, multiple hoops in his ears, and...

Still I pictured having you for fifty, sixty more years. I thought I might be ready then to let you go. But it’s you, and I realize now that I won’t be anymore ready to...

Magnus stood up and went to the window. He pushed the curtain back, letting in just enough light to silhouette his hawklike profile. “Blood,” he said, half to himself. “I had a dream two nights...

It’s awfully butch for a bookseller.

Maybe Alexander Lightwood would not break his heart.

Will, meet Thammuz, a minor demon from the eighth dimension. Thammuz, meet Will, a minor Shadowhunter from-Wales, was it?””I will rip out your eyes,” hissed the creature. “I will tear the skin from your face.”...

Pardon me, but we did not have the time to exchange that kind of personal information,” Magnus said. “I could not have known! Moreover, I wish to assure both of you that I did not...

She ought to be thrilled.