I would leave at once, but it would be cruel to abandon a lady in a foreign land with a maniac.
Ragnor and Catarina both begged him to give the instrument up. Random strangers on the street begged him to give the instrument up. Even cats ran away from him.
Magnus was sure that the llama stampede he witnessed was a coincidence. The llamas could not be judging him.
He’d learned his lesson a long time ago: Even in the midst of heartbreak, you could still find yourself laughing.
We live forever by the grace of human love, which rocked strange children in their cradles and did not despair and did not turn away.
It was a bit warm. Still. If one could look this fabulous, one had an obligation to. One should wear everything, or one should wear nothing at all.
How generous the universe could be, when he wanted to be!
Oh, the universe had outdone herself. The universe would be send flowers.
When one steals a flying balloon and animates it to fly over Paris, one should, ideally, have some idea how said balloon normally works.
Vampires, fey folk, werewolves, Shadowhunters, and demons – these things made sense to Magnus. But the mundane world – it seemed to have no pattern, no form. Their quicksilver politics. Their short lives...
She jerked hastily back to avoid stepping on it, and her shoulder bumped his – he put a hand out to steady her, just as she turned to apologize and then she was somehow in the circle of his arm and he was kissing her.
Isabelle: Do you want some soup? Jace: No Isabelle: Do you think Hodge will want some soup? Jace: No one wants soup Simon: I want some soup! Jace: No, you don’t. You just want to sleep with Isabelle.
I was looking for the opposite, really -something that might put an end to being in love.
It is not easy to be different, and even less so to be unique.
Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable, Brother Zachariah to Clary Fray.
It had been a whim, and there was nothing Magnus attached more importance to than a whim.
It really was getting difficult to be wonderful.
It was a very bad idea. It was a terrible idea. It was the worst idea he had ever heard. It was irresistible.
She had a plan. Even if it was a little insane.
I don’t suppose it would be possible to, er, step on him?