She turned back to Jace. "Do you have to be so-," she began, but stopped when she saw his face. It looked stripped down, oddly vulnerable. "Unpleasant?" he finishes for her. "Only at days when my adoptive mother tosses me out of the house with instructions never to darken her door again. Usually I'm remarkably good-natured. Try me on any day that doesn't end in y.

One must always be careful of books.

Magnus gazed dreamily in his direction. "You should leave him here. I could hang hats on him and things.

Have a little faith in my magic fingers

If you wanted to rip my clothes off, you should have asked." (Jace Wayland)

I must say, I rather like the way you manage Will.

I’m really grateful to you for saving us, Maia, and Jace is too, even though he’s so stubborn that he’d rather jam a seraph blade through his eyeball than say so. And don’t you say you hope he does,” she added hastily, seeing the look on the other girl’s face, “because that’s really not helpful.