Now this is really going to impress Valentine.””I don’t know,” Clary said. “Other crack teams get bat boomerangs and wall-crawling powers; we get the Aquatruck.””If you don’t like it, Nephilim,” came Magnus’s voice, faintly, from...

Sorry. Are we twelve now? I don’t recall saying anything to Isabelle . . .

Instead of replying, Alec reached down and took Magnus’s hands. Magnus let Alec pull him to his feet, a questioning look in his eyes. Before he could say anything, Alec drew him closer and kissed...

And therefor,” said Magnus “We must go.” Will blinked at him. “Go where?””Don’t worry about that right now, my love.”Will blinked again. “Pardon?

Magnus held up a warning finger. “Don’t overstep yourself, biscuit,” he said, and moved past them, disappearing into the crowd around the portal.”Biscuit?” said Simon.”Believe it or not, he’s called me that before,” Clary said.

If you do not intend to help us,” she said, “then leave this house. Dawn is coming.””I am not a vampire.” Magnus said. “I shall not disappear with the light””You will if I kill you...

Magnus began to be truly alarmed. Will’s voice would have shaken, betraying that his cruelty had been part of his playacting, but his son’s laugh was that of someone genuinely delighted by the chaos erupting...

Once he asked me what I thought had turned me gay.””I hope you told him you were bitten by a gay spider,” said Simon.

Magnus, standing by the door, snapped his fingers impatiently. “Move it along, teenagers. The only person who gets to canoodle in my bedroom is my magnificent self.””Canoodle?” repeated Clary, never having heard the word before.”Magnificent?”...

So, what are you?””What I am is someone who doesn’t want you to jump out of the window. The rest are details.

Come in. And try not to murder any of my guests.” Jace edged into the doorway, sizing up Magnus with his eyes. “Even if one of them spills a drink on my new shoes?””Even then.

Magnus’s eyes went back to Alec. They were gold-green, as unreadable as the eyes of the cat he held on his lap. “Not my favorite topic, Smedley.””Simon”, said Simon. “If I’m going to die for...

Nice, bah. He’s gorgeous.” Magnus gazed dreamily in his direction. “You should leave him here. I could hang hats on him and things.

Demons don’t understand human hearts, not well. They see through a distorted glass and show you what you desire, but warped and wrong. Use that wrongness to push yourself out of the dream. Life is...

Are you in fashion? You look like you’re in fashion.””No,” [Magnus] said. “I am fashion.

When the fey were worried, it was time to panic.

…In Paris she found Magnus, who was living in a garret apartment and paiting, an occupation for which he had no aptitude whatsoever. He let her sleep on a mattress by the window, and in...

Really?” [Catarina] said when he opened the door. ” Two years and then you come back and don’t even call for two weeks? And then it’s ‘Come over, I need you’? You didn’t even tell...

I thought you were dead.” Magnus smiled crookedly. “What, from that scratch?” He glanced down at the reddening jacket in Alec’s hand. “Okay, a deep scratch. Like, from a really, really big cat.

You left me. You made a pet out of me, and then you left me. If love were food, I would have starved on the bones you gave me.

But Magnus, he thought. You never told me. Never warned me it would be like this, that I would wake up one day and realize that I was going somewhere you couldn’t follow. That we...

Do you really wish to disobey me, Marbas? Do you wish to anger my father?

This is the deepest wish of my heart?””Sure,” Magnus said.”Your father, proud of you. You, the hero of the hour. Me, loving you. Everyone approving of you.”Alec looked over at Jace.”Okay, what about the Jace...

With a sigh of relief, Clary glanced back over her shoulder. Magnus was standing at the door to the cottage, his arms folded across his chest. Catching her eye, he grinned and dropped one eyelid...

Hello,” Magnus said to the monkey. The monkey did not reply. “I shall call you Ragnor.

Magnus had learned to be careful about giving his memories with his heart. When people died, it felt like all the pieces of yourself you had given to them went as well. It took so...

You dated a vampire? A girl vampire?” (Simon)”It was a hundred and thirty years ago,” (Magnus)”I haven’t seen her since.” (Magnus)”Why didn’t you tell me?” (Alec)”Alexander, I’ve been alive for hundred of years. I’ve been...

He seems to like you. I saw him going for your hand out there like a squirrel diving for a peanut.

She smiled. Her skin looked whiter than he recalled, and dark spidery veins were beginning to show beneath its surface. Her hair was still the color of spun silver and her eyes were still green...

Isabelle took out her invitation and waved it like a white flag. “I have an invitation. These”—she indicated the rest of the group with a grand wave of her arm—”are my friends.”Magnus plucked the invitation...

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.