Other crack teams get bat boomerangs and wall-climbing powers; we get Aquatruck.

there is a fine line between sarcasm and hostility, you seemed to have crossed it. What's up?

What is Aldous capable of?" "Aldous is two thousands years old. He's capable of anything." "Aldous Nix is two thousands years old?" "So, I've heard. He doesn't invite me to his birthday parties.

By the Angel, it just crushed Sophocles," noted Will. "Has no one respect for the classics these days?

She had never imagined she had the power to make someone else so happy. And not a magical power, either--a purely human one.

It was dark in the alcove, so dark that Jace was only an outline of shadows and gold. His body pinned Clary's to the wall. His hands slid down along her body and reached the end of her dress, drawing it up along her legs. "What are you doing?" She whispered. "Jace?" He looked at her. The peculiar light in the club turned his eyes an array of fractured colors. His smile was wicked. "You can tell me to stop whenever you want," he said. "But you won't.

Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know of, and use them to embellish and define characters.