The kitchen was bright, cheerful yellow, the walls decorated with framed chalk and pencil sketches Simon and Rebecca had done in grade school. Rebecca had some drawing talent, you could tell, but Simon's sketches of people all looked like parking meters with tufts of hair.

Here's a hot tip: Most girls don't like being stalked.

Mundanes who involve themselves in things they know nothing about are likely to meet unpleasant endings.

I may be a killer," Jace said, "but I know what I am. Can you say the same?

There is more to living than not dying," he said. "Look at the way you live Will. You burn as bright as a star.

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.

You could have anything else in the world. and you asked for me.