He had kept his balance by keeping his secrets.
Marriage is like a long conversation that always ends too soon.
It was a sad moment in Magnus Bane’s life when he was banned from Peru by the High Council of Peruvian warlocks. It was not just because the posters with a picture of him that were passed around Downworld in Peru were so wildly unflattering. It was because Peru was one of his favorite places. He had had many adventures there, and had many wonderful memories, starting with the time in 1791 when he had invited Ragnor Fell to join him for a festive sightseeing escape in Lima. 1791.
I believe one day he will have his hours with Tessa Gray even if he does not dare to hope for it. But his parabatai, Will Herondale, is old and frail and drawing near the end of his life. I want you to give them both a span of time. Both of them in a time and place where they can be young and happy and together.
This is DJ Bat, greatest werewolf DJ in the world, or at least in the top five, coming to you live from Venice because Warlocks make irresponsible financial decisions, and this one is for the lovers! Or people with friends who will dance with them. Some of us are lonely jerks, and we’ll be doing shots at the bar.
If there is one thing I have learned in my life, and I grant I have not learned much, it is this: Neither Fair Folk nor mortals know what love is or is not. No one does.
Hate me. Rejoice when I die. The last thing I would want now would be to bring you more grief.
You will come across few creatures that cannot be successfully defeated by the application of sufficient blunt trauma.
She told me once there is a clock in the hearts of parents. Most of the time it is silent, but you can hear it ticking when your child is not with you and you do not know where they are, or when they are awake in the night and wanting you. It will tick until you are with them again.
Then this should be fun,” Cordelia said quickly. “Seducing Hypatia. After all, what are rules for it not to be broken?
Jace didn’t just pull the pigtails of people he had crushes on. He pulled the pigtails of everyone in the world he liked. This was something Simon still had not figured out over the years.
When you love someone, you don’t have a choice,” said clary... “Love takes your choices away.
All the younger set were fearfully bookish. Anna put it down to Uncle Will and Aunt Tessa’s influence. They seldom let one leave the Institute without a book they felt one simply must read.
It’s entirely possible that there are memories you have buried or repressed, memories formed when you were too young to have a conscious recollection of them, that Brother Jeremiah can reach. It could help us a great deal.
I’ll do everything I can to help, you know that, right, Alexander? Not because it’s the Clave, but because it’s you” – Magnus.
Come back victorious or on the hairbrushes of your soldiers!
Maybe a nickname,” Maryse proposed. “What would you think of Jace?
Do the choo-choo train,” – Emma Carstairs.
Well, it seems like a mad idea to me, but those usually work out for you,” said Catarina.
That was vampires for you: always going for the jugular, both literally and metaphorically. They were messing up his love life as well as being inconsiderate party guests who had got blood in Magnus’s stereo system at his last party and turned Clary’s idiot friend Stanley into a rat, which was just bad manners.