One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.

The grandeur of the Institute never failed to impress Magnus - the way it towered high and mighty above everything else, timeless and unmoving in its Gothic disapproval of all that was modern and changeable.

He was standing leaning against the door frame; now he stood up straight. "How should I have kissed you? Is there an other way you like it?

To destroy the enemy it can be necessary to understand him.

Clary wondered what exactly peanut-fish-olive-tomato soup tasted like.

But the name Magnus Bane made him think of a towering sort of figure, with huge shoulders and formal purple warlock’s robes, calling down fire and lightning. Not Magnus himself, who was more of a cross between a panther and a demented elf.

Don't you hate it? Not ever saying how you really feel?