He tried to learn seductive phrases in all languages, but the only Swedish he had ever really needed was, "Do you serve anything aside from pickled fish?" and "If you wrap me in furs, I can pretend to be your little fuzzy bear.
Cassandra ClareHeโs very pretty. For a human.โ โHeโs very broken,โ said Magnus. โLike a lovely vase that someone has smashed. Only luck and skill can put it back together the way it was before.
Cassandra ClareTheir beauty had always seemed to him like the beauty of pressed flowers-lovely, but dead.
Cassandra ClareWhen somebody tells you there's something wrong with your book they're almost always right, when they tell you how to fix it they're almost always wrong.
Cassandra Clare