Magnus had often thought of getting a pet, but he had never considered acquiring a sullen teenage vampire. Once Raphael was gone, he thought, he was getting a cat. And he would always throw his cat a birthday party.

There is nothing quite like the moral absolutism of the young." -Hodge

I can only assume," said Jace, "that mortal emotions amuse you because you have none of your own.

Jace, Clary thought, was the sort of person who liked it when things were happening, even things that were bad

Just like an alley in New York -like every alley in the world, apparently- it smelled like cat pee.

Excuse me, Bane?" said Roderick Morgenstern. "Are you attending?" "I'm so sorry," Magnus said politely. "Somebody incredibly attractive just came into the room, and I ceased to pay attention to a word you were saying.

You have ruthlessness in your bones and ice in your heart, Clarissa. Don't tell me any differently.