You have to give everyone ugly motives for everything they do, because ugly motives are all you understand.

Magnus, you were trying to flirt with your own plate." "I'm a very open-minded sort of fellow!" "Ragnor is not," Catarina said. "When he found out that you were feeding us guinea pigs, he hit you over the head with your plate. It broke." "So ended our love," Magnus said. "Ah, well. It would have never worked between me and the plate anyway.

Every meeting led to a parting, and so it would, as long as life was mortal. In every meeting there was some of the sorrow of parting, but in everything parting there was some of the joy of meeting as well.

I don’t think Will Herondale and a sense of responsibility are even on speaking terms

Gold to airy thinness beat.

Church was doing what he often did when dropped - lying on his back with all four legs in the air, pretending to be dead in order to induce guilt in his owners.

And next time you're planning to injure yourself to get me attention, just remember that a little sweet talk works wonders.