My mother always told me if I rode a motorcycle with a boy, she'd kill me." ... She couldn't hear him laugh, but she felt his body shake. "She wouldn't say that if she knew me," he called back to her confidently. "I'm an excellent driver." -Clary & Jace, pg.289-

Magnus reached out to touch Alec, but Alec moved away. Magnus' hand fall to himself.

A lot of people feel like urban fantasy is a shortcut that gets you around world-building, because it's set "in the real world." But it doesn't really work that way, as I found out. You have to come up with just as consistent an internal cosmology and magic system as you would if you were writing high fantasy.

Magnus, I wish I had the nerve to wear the kind of pants you do.

Ragnor [was] always happy to see chaos, but not be involved in it.

I feel a sense of responsibility," said Jordan. "And where is this feeling located? In your pants, perhaps?

Why does it take girls so long to shower?” he demanded. “Mortal girls, Shadowhunters, female warlocks, you‘re all the same. I‘m not getting any younger waiting out here.” -Magnus to Clary, pg.272-