Does she still love you?" "I don't think so," Magnus said dryly. "She wasn't very pleasant the last time I saw her. Of course, that could be because I've got an eighteen year-old boyfriend with a stamina rune and she doesn't." Alec sputtered. "As the person being objectified, I ... object to that description of me.

The funny thing about mundies is how obsessed with magic they are for a bunch of people who don't even know what the word means.

Amor verus numquam moritur: True love never dies

Looking for an entirely reliable informant is like looking for a chaste mistress.

For our purposes you can consider it a small country between Germany and France." "But there isn't anything between Germany and France. Except Switzerland." "Precisely," said Jace.

There's nothing you could have done that would cause me to cease loving either of you. Will is myself, my own soul, and if I am not to have the keeping of your heart, then there is not other I would rather have that honor.

You can see where it was, years ago. Like an old woman who was once beautiful, but time has taken her beauty away.