It's like banging my head against the wall, except if I were actually banging my head on a wall, I'd be able to make myself stop.

I think of myself as a freewheeling bisexual," added Magnus. "Please never say those words in front of my parents," said Alec.

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.

Without him, [Nate] she was completely alone in the world. There was no one at all for her. No one in the world who cared whether she lived or died. Sometimes the horror of that thought threatened to overwhelm her and plunge her down into bottomless darkness.

Softly, Magnus said, "Aku cinta kamu." "What does that mean?" Magnus disentangled himself from Alec's grip. "It means I love you. Not that that changes anything.

Would you like to meet him? I could summon him up in a trice of you like. Being a warlock, and all.

Half of your attention is better than all of anyone else's.