Would you like to meet him? I could summon him up in a trice of you like. Being a warlock, and all.

I have a high pain threshold. In fact, it's more of a large and tastfully decorated foyer than a threshold. But I do get easily bored

Hugo attacked me." Clary tried not to wince as the astringent liquid stung her wounds. Hugo?" Luke blinked. Hodge's bird. I think it was his bird, anyway. Maybe it was Valentine's." Hugin," Luke said softly. "Hugin and Munin were Valentine's pet birds. Their names mean 'Thought' and 'Memory.'" Well they should mean 'Attack' and 'Kill,'" said Clary. "Hugo almost tore my eyes out.

Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.

Very well," Magnus said. "Let us pause for a moment and consider—Oh, you have already run off Splendid.

He wondered if normalcy was something, like vision or silence, you didn't realize was precious until you lost it.

There was an electric anger in his gaze, and a sort of challenge that made Simon long to hit him with something heavy. Like a pickup truck.