Magnus looked at her meditatively. 'I think,' he said, 'there isn't much that Jace wouldn't do for you, if you asked him.' Clary opened her mouth and then shut it again. She thought of the way Magnus had always seemed to know how Alec felt about Jace, how Simon felt about her. Her feelings for Jace must be written on her face even now, and Magnus was an expert reader. She glanced away.

In some ways, we've been through something no one else can ever understand but the two of us... And it made me realize. We are always and absolutely better together.

Moreover, I wish to assure you both that I did not make any amorous advances on female monkeys.

You’re seventeen,” Magnus said. “You can’t have wasted a life you’ve barely lived.

I have specific playlists for different books and characters. So, I need to have those with me. It helps me get into the mindset of the book.

When I was a little kid, I realized that if you say any word over and over fast enough, it loses all it's meaning.

I'm not sure you're quite sensible of the honor I'm doing you," Jace said. "you'll be the first mundane who has ever been inside the Institute." "Probably the smell keeps the rest of them away." - Simon, 133