If one could look this fabulous, one had an obligation to.
Always ask for what you want, because the worst thing that can happen is embarrassment but the best thing that can happen is nudity.
Love makes liars of us all.
Magnus didn’t really want this kind of thing this early in the morning – this talk of aching memories and wanting to forget. This conversation needed to end, now.
The grandeur of the Institute never failed to impress Magnus – the way it towered high and mighty above everything else, timeless and unmoving in its Gothic disapproval of all that was modern and changeable.
The rich bought wonderful clothes you recognized. The richest had their pople go to Paris and buy the entire new collection that no one outside of the fashion house has seen.
They both believed in her even when she didn’t believe in herself.
The world is the same but you are different.
Shutting your eyes and pretending something’s not happening doesn’t make it not true, Jace.
Go to faeries for gossip about vampires, to werewolves for gossip about faeries, and do not gossip about werewolves, because they try to bite your face off: that was Magnus’s motto.
Magnus did not like to go near the Hotel Dumont if he could help it. It was decrepit and unsettling, it held bad memories, and it also occasionally held his evil former lady love.
Magnus had often thought of getting a pet, but he had never considered acquiring a sullen teenage vampire. Once Raphael was gone, he thought, he was getting a cat. And he would always throw his cat a birthday party.
They landed at Simon’s feet. “Take your clothes and go!” Isabelle shouted.
And like lambs to a slaughter we shall follow...
When the fey were worried, it was time to panic.
The Nephilim – the bogeyman for monsters, and all those who could be monsters.
Magnus hoped if he ever went mad like that himself, so mad that he poisoned the very air round him and hurt everyone he came into contact with, that there would be someone ho loved him enough to stop him. To kill him, if it came to that.
Love did not overcome everything. Love did not always endure. All you had could be taken away, love could be the last thing you had, and then love could be taken too.
They had met at a club fifteen years before, Etta and Magnus. He had convinced her to dance with him, and she said she had been in love by the end of the song. He told her he had been in love before the beginning.
What if everything you believe is wrong and you could still be loved and still be forgiven?