[Jem] looked from Will to Tessa and raised his silvery eyebrows. "A miracle," he said. "You got him to speak." "Just to shout at me, really," said Tessa. "Not quite loaves and fishes.

Life is full of risks. Death is much simpler.

God knows we’re all drawn to what’s beautiful and broken.

Magnus did not like to go near the Hotel Dumont if he could help it. It was decrepit and unsettling, it held bad memories, and it also occasionally held his evil former lady love.

Clary: "Aren't they supposed to be hiring someone else to train me full-time anyway?"

Will interrupted. "Henry," he said, "you're on fire. You do know that, don't you?

The only way you would have failed," she said, "is if you had.