There's nothing wild about me. I'm a solid middle-aged man." "Except that once a month you turn into a wolf and go tearing around slaughtering things," Clary said. "It could be worse," Luke said. "Men my age have been known to purchase expensive sports cars and sleep with supermodels.

He found himself wanting to write poetry about how her blue eyes were like starlight and her hair like night, because "night" and "starlight" rhymed, but he had a feeling the poem wouldn't turn out that well.

I've always been told my presence brightened up any room. One might think that went doubly for dank underground cell." (Jace)

Oh God.” said Magnus, “they’re dead. They’re all dead!

I think of myself as a freewheeling bisexual,' - Magnus Bane

Magnus shrugged. "He also made inappropriate amorous advances to a startled grandmotherly sort selling flowers, an Irish wolfhound, and innocent hat stand in a dwelling he broke into, and myself.

If you run into a psychic wall face-first, do you wind up with psychic bruises? -Clary, pg.239-