To marry a girl just to make her a widow,” said Gabriel Lightwood. “Many would say that was not a kindness.

You could have anything else in the world. and you asked for me.

Clary stopped dead in her tracks. "Simon?" "Oh, God," said Jace, sounding resigned. "And here I'd actually hoped I'd got hold of something interesting." -Clary and Jace pg. 114

It’s like a cotillion, this partners business, except with killing.” “So, exactly like a cotillion,” said Simon.

Maryse sighed."Nothing conclusive.If only the dead could talk,eh,Lucian?

Magnus did not take such suffering lightly, but even mortals did not die of broken hearts. No matter how cruel Grace had been, he told himself, James would heal. Even though he was a Herondale.

A sarcastic blond genie with a bad attitude. -Clary, pg.243-