So, what are you?" "What I am is someone who doesn't want you to jump out of the window. The rest are details.

Go in peace, James Carstairs.

Clary stopped wondering about peanut-fish-olive-tomato soup and started wondering what would happen if she dumped the contents of the pot on Isabelle’s head.

I think of myself as a freewheeling bisexual,' - Magnus Bane

Waiting for a special occasion to kill me? Christmas is coming.

I keep thinking about blood, I dream about it. Wake up thinking about it. Pretty soon I'll be writing morbid emo poetry about it.

But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it.