I can't get enough adventure," Magnus said lightly. "And adventure cannot get enough of me.

Was this what it meant to love someone? That any burden was a burden shared, that they could give you comfort with a word or a touch?

If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?

wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness

Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.

Eventually I fell asleep in the Rabies and Lycanthropy section. Woolsey bites on occasion, and I'm concerned.' - Magnus Bane

No," said Simon. "I know we're not much compared to you, but we don't kill our friends. We try to save them. If Heaven didn't want it that way, we ought to have been given the ability to love." He shoved his hair back, baring the Mark more fully. "No, you don't need to help me. But if you don't, there's nothing stopping me from calling you up again and again, now that I know you can't kill me. Think of it as me leaning on you Heavenly doorbell... forever.