87 Quotes About Magnus Bane

Just as there are many different kinds of love, there are many different kinds of vampires. From the classic vampires like Dracula and the Count, to new-age vampires like Angel, Magnus Bane is one of the most interesting characters of the genre. He’s a master vampire who believes in equality, so he doesn’t mind killing anyone who gets in his way. But he’s also a very intelligent man who has a lot to teach his fellow immortals Read more

Here are 10 of the best quotes by the enigmatic vampire himself.

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Of course he loves me. I’m his sister.”“ Blood isn’t love, ” said Magnus, and his voice was bitter. Cassandra Clare
I just don't see why the past has to matter.
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I just don't see why the past has to matter. Cassandra Clare
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I didn't call you because I'm tired of you only wanting me around when you need something. I'm tired of watching you be in love with someone else - someone, incidentally, who will never love you back. Not the way I do. Cassandra Clare
You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That...
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You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all. Cassandra Clare
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He knew Alec enough by now to know the conflicting impulses that warred in him. He was conscientious, the kind of person who believed that the others around him were so much more important than he was, who already believed he was letting everybody down. And he was honest, the kind of person that was naturally open about all he felt and wanted. Alec's virtues had made a trap for him; these two good qualities had collided painfully. He felt he could not be honest without disappointing everyone he loved. It was a hideous conundrum for him. It was as if the world had been designed to make him unhappy. . Cassandra Clare
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Malachi scowled. "I don't remember the Clave inviting you into the Glass City, Magnus Bane.""They didn't, " Magnus said. "Your wards are down."" Really?" the Consul's voice dripped sarcasm. "I hadn't noticed." Magnus looked concerned. "That's terrible. Someone should have told you." He glanced at Luke. "Tell him the wards are down. Cassandra Clare
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Magnus, standing by the door, snapped his fingers impatiently. "Move it along, teenagers. The only person who gets to canoodle in my bedroom is my magnificent self."" Canoodle?" repeated Clary, never having heard the word before." Magnificent?" repeated Jace, who was just being nasty. Magnus growled. The growl sounded like "Get out. Cassandra Clare
There's no need to clarify my finger snap,
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There's no need to clarify my finger snap, " said Magnus. "The implication was clear in the snap itself. Cassandra Clare
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Wear that scarf, " he said, pointing to a blue cashmere scarf hanging on a peg. "It matches your eyes." Alec looked at it. Suddenly he was filled with hate - for the scarf, for Magnus, and most of all for himself. "Don't tell me, " he said. "The scarf's a hundred years old, and it was given to you by Queen Victoria right before she died, for special services to the Crown or something." Magnus sat up. "What's gotten into you?" Alec stared at him. "Am I the newest thing in this apartment?"" I think that honor goes to Chairman Meow. He's only two."" I said newest, not youngest, " Alec snapped. Cassandra Clare
I'm the warlock who's here to cure you. Didn't they...
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I'm the warlock who's here to cure you. Didn't they tell you I was coming?" Cassandra Clare
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So it's true what they say about warlocks, then?" true?". "You can't be rude to everyone who talks to me." Alec made a wide, sweeping gesture. "And why not? Cramping your style, am I? I mean, maybe you were hoping to flirt with werewolf boy here. He's pretty attractive, if you like the messy-haired, broad-shouldered, chiseled-good-looks type."" Hey, now, " said Jordan mildly. Magnus put his head in his hands. into?"" Mermaids, " said Magnus into his fingers. "They always smell like seaweed.", " Alec said savagely, and kicking back his chair, he got up from the table and stalked off into the crowd. . Cassandra Clare
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I'm seven hundred years old, Alexander. I know when something isn't going to work. You won't even admit I exist to your parents." Alec stared at him. "I thought you were three hundred! You're seven huundred years old?" "Well, " Magnus amended, "eight hundred. But I dont look it. Anyway, you're missing the point. The point is-" But Alec never found out what the point was because at that moment a dozen more Iblis demons flooded into the square. He felt his jaw drop. "Damn it." Magnus followed his gaze. the demons were already fanning out into a half circle around them, their yellow eyes glowing. "Way to change the subject, Lightwood. Cassandra Clare
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Alec?" Magnus was staring at him. He had dispatched the remaining Iblis demons, and the square was empty but for the two of them. "Did you just- did you just save my life?" Alec knew he ought to say something like, Of course, because I'm a Shadowhunter and that's what we do, or That's my job. Jace would have said something like that. Jace always knew the right thing to say. But the words that actually came out of Alec's mouth where quite different- and sounded petulant, even to his own ears. "You never called me back, " he said. "I called you so many times and you never called me back." Magnus looked at Alec as if he'd lost his mind. "Your city is under attack, " he said. "The wards have broken, and the streets are full of demons. And you want to know why I haven't called you? . Cassandra Clare
We seemed to be trapped in an episode of One...
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We seemed to be trapped in an episode of One Life To Waste. It's all very dull. Cassandra Clare
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And second, keep in mind that you are a weapon. In theory, when you're done with training, you should be able to kick a hole in a wall or knock out a moose with a single punch."" I would never hit a moose, " said Clary. "They're endangered. Cassandra Clare
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Magnus remembered a town in Peru whose Quechua name meant “quiet place.” He recalled even more vividly being obscenely drunk and unhappy over his heartbreak of that time, and the maudlin thoughts that had recurred to him over the years, like an unwanted guest slipping in through his doors: that there was no peace for such as he, no quiet place, and there never would be. Except he found himself remembering lying in bed with Alec–all of their clothes on, lounging on the bed on a lazy afternoon, Alec laughing, head thrown back, the marks Magnus had left on his throat very plain to see. Sarah Rees Brennan
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So what do we do?" Alec whispered. Magnus shrugged and smiled suddenly; with his messy black hair and the gleam in his gold-green eyes, he looked like a mischievous teenager. "what everyone else does, " he replied. "Like you said. Hope. Cassandra Clare
They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the...
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They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite Cassandra Clare
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To them, as to Magnus, time was like rain, glittering as it fell, changing the world, but something that could also be taken for granted. Until you loved a mortal. Then time became gold in a miser's hands, every bright year counted out carefully, infinitely precious, and each one slipping through your fingers. Cassandra Clare
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Magnus deeply disliked people who were early to business meetings. It was just as bad as being late, since it put everyone out, and even worse, people who were early always acted terribly superior about their bad timekeeping skills. They acted as though it were morally more righteous to get up early than to stay up late, even if you got the same amount of work done in the exact same amount of time. Magnus found it to be one of the great injustices of life. . Cassandra Clare
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Magnus raised his hands above his head and clapped once. The room flooded with light. "You see? You think that would be possible without magic? "Actually, " replied Simon, "It is. If you watched infomercials you'd know that. Cassandra Clare
So it's true what they say about warlocks,
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So it's true what they say about warlocks, Cassandra Clare
That's your truck parked up by the factory isn't it?
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That's your truck parked up by the factory isn't it?" Magnus pointed. "It's awfully butch for a bookseller. Cassandra Clare
Hello, companion,
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Hello, companion, " said Magnus.The monkey made a terrible sound, half snarl and half hiss." I begin to rather doubt the beauty of our friendship, " said Magnus. Cassandra Clare
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I have been a friend to Shadowhunters. I know many of your families, going back for hundreds of years."" There is nothing we can do to correct the questionable judgments of our ancestors, " Lucian said. Magnus hated this guy. Cassandra Clare
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But sleep didn't come. She could hear Jace's soft piano playing through the walls, but that wasn't what was keeping her awake. She was thinking of Simon, leaving for a house that no longer felt like home to him, of the despair in Jace's voice as he said 'I want to hate you', and of Magnus, not telling Jace the truth: that Alec did not want Jace to know about his relationship because he was still in love with him. She thought of the satisfaction it would have brought Magnus to say the words out loud, to acknowledge what the truth was, and the fact that he hadn't said them - had let Alec go on lying and pretending - because that was what Alec wanted, and Magnus cared about Alec enough to give him that. Maybe it was true what the Seelie Queen had said, after all: Love made you a liar. Cassandra Clare
Certainly there were places of greater natural beauty–but Paris but...
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Certainly there were places of greater natural beauty–but Paris but UNNATURAL beauty, which was arguably better.' - The Runaway Queen (The Bane Chronicles, 2) by Cassandra Clare and Maureen Johnson Cassandra Clare
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Even the girl he'd danced with had thought it was some marvelous trick. She had been enveloped in real, bright fire and she had tipped back her head and laughed, the tumble of her black hair becoming a crackling waterfall of light, the heels of her shoes striking sparks like glittering leaping dust all over the floor, her skirt trailing flame as if he were following a phoenix tail. Magnus had spun and swung with her, and she'd thought he was marvelous for a single moment of bright illusion. But, like love, fire didn't last. . Cassandra Clare
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I was alive when the Dead Sea was just a lake that was feeling a little poorly. Cassandra Clare
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A great sadness welled up in Magnus at the sight of him. It was human to age and die, and Jem stood outside that humanity now, outside the light that burned so brightly and so briefly. It was cold outside that light and fire. No one had greater cause to know that cold than Magnus did. Cassandra Clare
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Magic or nature, they were much the same thing to Magnus. Cassandra Clare
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Our fathers were demons, ' Catarina said. 'Our mothers were heroes. Cassandra Clare
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What if everything you believe is wrong and you could still be loved and still be forgiven? Cassandra Clare
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You dated a vampire? A girl vampire?" (Simon)"It was a hundred and thirty years ago, " (Magnus)"I haven't seen her since." (Magnus)"Why didn't you tell me?" (Alec)"Alexander, I've been alive for hundred of years. I've been with men, been with women -- with faeries and warlocks and vampires, and even a djinn or two." (Magnus) He looked sideways at Maryse, who looked mildly horrified." Too much information?" (Magnus) . Cassandra Clare
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He remembered Tessa weeping in his arms in Paris, and thinking that he had never known the loss she felt, because he had never loved like she had, and that he was afraid that someday he would, and like Tessa he would lose his mortal love. And that it was better to be the one who died than the one who lived on. He had dismissed that, later, as a morbid fantasy, and had not remembered it again until Alec. Cassandra Clare
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You know, there's a reason we can remember, " [Catarina] said more softly." That's much easier when your life has an expiration date."" It may be more important for us. Cassandra Clare
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If you never tell anyone the truth about yourself, eventually you start to forget. Cassandra Clare
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He held her close enough to kiss, close enough to whisper the most important secrets in the world, and he spoke to her as he would have wanted some good angel to speak to his family, to his own shivering young soul, long ago and in a land far away. Cassandra Clare
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It had been a whim, and there was nothing Magnus attached more importance to than a whim. Cassandra Clare
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Magnus threw the monkey a fig. The monkey took the fig." There, " said Magnus. "Let us consider the matter settled." The monkey advanced, chewing in a menacing fashion." I rather wonder what I am doing here. I enjoy city life, you know, " Magnus observed. "The glittering lights, the constant companionship, the liquid entertainment. The lack of sudden monkeys." He ignored Giuliana's advice and took a smart step back, and also threw another piece of fruit. The monkey did not take the bait this time. He coiled and rattled out a growl, and Magnus took several more steps back and into a tree. Magnus flailed on impact, was briefly grateful that nobody was watching him and expecting him to be a sophisticated warlock, and had a monkey assault launched directly to his face. He shouted, spun, and sprinted through the rain forest. He did not even think to drop the fruit. It fell one by one in a bright cascade as he ran for his life from the simian menace. He heard it in hot pursuit and fled faster, until all his fruit was gone and he ran right into Ragnor."Have a care! " Ragnor snapped. He detailed his terrible monkey adventure twice." But of course you should have retreated at once from the dominant male, " Giuliana said. "Are you an idiot? You are extremely lucky he was distracted from ripping out your throat by the fruit. He thought you were trying to steal his females."" Pardon me, but we did not have the time to exchange that kind of personal information, " Magnus said. "I could not have known! Moreover, I wish to assure both of you that I did not make any amorous advances on female monkeys." He paused and winked. "I didn't actually see any, so I never got the chance." Ragnor looked very regretful about all the choices that had led to his being in this place and especially in this company. Later he stooped and hissed, low enough so Giuliana could not hear and in a way that reminded Magnus horribly of his monkey nemesis: "Did you forget that you can do magic?" Magnus spared a moment to toss a disdainful look over his shoulder." I am not going to ensorcel a monkey! Honestly, Ragnor. What do you take me for? . Cassandra Clare
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He lifted a glass. Ragnor and Catarina did not join him, but Magnus was happy to make the toast on his own. "To adventure, " he said, and drank. Cassandra Clare
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Magnus's ship would sail that night... His interest in the ship and his thoughts of an adventure to come made him regret his departure less, but even so, he stood at the rail as the ship departed into the night waters. Cassandra Clare
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The first one is always the hardest. Cassandra Clare
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Its your decision, Simon Lewis, " said Magnus. "Remain in the existence you have, go to college, study music, get married. Live your life. Or---you can have an uncertain life of shadows and dangers. You can have the joy of reading the stories of incredible happenings, or you can be part of the story."" The choice is up to you Cassandra Clare
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Every teenager in the world feels like that, feels broken or out of place, different somehow, royalty mistakenly born into a family of peasants. The difference in your case is that it's true. Cassandra Clare
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Not to mention, " Magnus noted, "that Jace killed him. That would put anyone off". Cassandra Clare
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Vampires took offense SO easily–and Parisian vampires were the worst of all.' - The Runaway Queen (The Bane Chronicles, 2) by Cassandra Clare and Maureen Johnson Cassandra Clare
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I don’t understand what makes them come out like that! ”“ Hunger, ” said Jem. “Were you thinking about blood?”“ No.”“ Were you thinking about eating me?” Will inquired.“ No! "“ No one would blame you, ” said Jem. “He’s very annoying. Cassandra Clare
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There was no way possible [the queen] could have done all of the things the pamphleteers claimed. The crimes were too gross, too immoral and far too physically challenging. Magnus himself had never attempted half of them. Cassandra Clare
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Magnus reached for Alec, but instead of rising to his feet, he pulled Alec against him, his hand sliding up Alec’s back to knot in his hair. Magnus pulled Alec down and against him, and kissed him, hard and awkward and determined, and Alec froze for a moment and then abandoned himself to it, to kissing Magnus, something he’d thought he’d never get to do again. Alec ran his hands up Magnus’sshoulders to the sides of his neck and cupped his hands there, holding Magnus in place while he kissed him thoroughly breathless. Cassandra Clare
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Raphael's hand tightened on the hilt of the knife. His knuckles were white. He spoke to Magnus. "I have no soul, " he said. "But I made you a promise on my mother's doorstep, and she was sacred to me."" Santiago- " Sebastian began." I was a child then. I am not now." The knife fell to the floor. Raphael turned and looked at Sebastian, his wide dark eyes very clear. "I cannot, " he said. "I will not. I owe him a debt from many years ago. . Cassandra Clare
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I've got a stele we can use. Who wants to do me?"" A regrettable choice of words, " muttered Magnus. Cassandra Clare
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[Magnus] held on to the boy, newborn in grave dirt and blood, and he wished that he had found him dead. Cassandra Clare
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We're not dating, " Alec said again." Oh?" Magnus said. "So you're just that friendly with everybody, is that it? Cassandra Clare
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.. We are Nephilim; we fight our own battles." "That's not precisely true, is it?" said a velvety voice. It was Magnus Bane, wearing a long and glittering coat, multiple hoops in his ears, and a roguish expression. Clary had no idea where he'd come from. "You lot have used the help of warlocks on more than one occasion in the past, and paid handsomely for it too." Malachi scowled. "I don't remember the Clave inviting you into the Glass City, Magnus Bane." "They didn't, " Magnus said. "Your wards are down." "Really?" the Consul's voice dripped sarcasm. "I hadn't noticed." Magnus looked concerned. "That's terrible. Someone should have told you." He glanced at Luke. "Tell him the wards are down. Cassandra Clare
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What - what - what are you doing?" he demanded." I am almost six hundred years old, " Magnus claimed, and Ragnor snorted, since Magnus changed his age to suit himself every few weeks. Magnus swept on. "It does seem about time to learn a musical instrument." He flourished his new prize, a little stringed instrument that looked like a cousin of the lute that the lute was embarrassed to be related to. "It's called a charango. I am planning to become a charanguista! "" I wouldn't call that an instrument of music, " Ragnor observed sourly. "An instrument of torture, perhaps." Magnus cradled the charango in his arms as if it were an easily offended baby. "It's a beautiful and very unique instrument! The sound box is made from an armadillo. Well, a dried armadillo shell."" That explains the sound you're making, " said Ragnor. "Like a lost, hungry armadillo."" You are just jealous, " Magnus remarked calmly. "Because you do not have the soul of a true artiste like myself."" Oh, I am positively green with envy, " Ragnor snapped." Come now, Ragnor. That's not fair, " said Magnus. "You know I love it when you make jokes about your complexion." Magnus refused to be affected by Ragnor's cruel judgments. He regarded his fellow warlock with a lofty stare of superb indifference, raised his charango, and began to play again his defiant, beautiful tune. They both heard the staccato thump of frantically running feet from within the house, the swish of skirts, and then Catarina came rushing out into the courtyard. Her white hair was falling loose about her shoulders, and her face was the picture of alarm." Magnus, Ragnor, I heard a cat making a most unearthly noise, " she exclaimed. "From the sound of it, the poor creature must be direly sick. You have to help me find it! " Ragnor immediately collapsed with hysterical laughter on his windowsill. Magnus stared at Catarina for a moment, until he saw her lips twitch." You are conspiring against me and my art, " he declared. "You are a pack of conspirators." He began to play again. Catarina stopped him by putting a hand on his arm." No, but seriously, Magnus, " she said. "That noise is appalling." Magnus sighed. "Every warlock's a critic."" Why are you doing this?"" I have already explained myself to Ragnor. I wish to become proficient with a musical instrument. I have decided to devote myself to the art of the charanguista, and I wish to hear no more petty objections."" If we are all making lists of things we wish to hear no more . , " Ragnor murmured. Catarina, however, was smiling." I see, " she said." Madam, you do not see."" I do. I see it all most clearly, " Catarina assured him. "What is her name?"" I resent your implication, " Magnus said. "There is no woman in the case. I am married to my music! "" Oh, all right, " Catarina said. "What's his name, then?" His name was Imasu Morales, and he was gorgeous. Cassandra Clare
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Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. Nor was it wise to tempt angels, even of the fallen sort. Cassandra Clare
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A pair of werewolves occupied another booth. They were eating raw shanks of lamb and arguing about who would win in a fight: Dumbledore from Harry Potter books or Magnus Bane."Dumbledore would totally win, " said the first one. "He has the badass Killing Curse."The second lycanthrope made a trenchant point. "But Dumbledore isn't real."" I don't think Magnus Bane is real either, " scoffed the first. "Have you ever met him?"" This is so weird, " said Clary, slinking down in her seat. "Are you listening to them?" "No. It's rude to eavesdrop, " said Jace. . Cassandra Clare
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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. Cassandra Clare
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Nobody else is wearing anything even remotely like it.' Magnus cast a disparaging look around at all the fashion-challenged sailors. 'I feel sorry for them, of course, but I do not see why that observation should alter my current extremely stylish course of action. Cassandra Clare
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Honestly I don't know why i have these parties"" Because of your cat"" That's true. Chairman Meow deserves my every effort Cassandra Clare
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And therefor, " said Magnus "We must go." Will blinked at him. "Go where?"" Don't worry about that right now, my love." Will blinked again. "Pardon? Cassandra Clare
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There was still about them what had always reminded Magnus of an old legend he’d heard of the red thread of fate: that an invisible scarlet thread bound certain people, and however tangled it became, it could not and would not break. Cassandra Clare
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GOD HAS NOT MERCY AND NOR WILL I' - The Midnight Heir (The Bane Chronicles, 4) by Cassandra Clare and Sarah Rees Brennan Cassandra Clare
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When Magnus looked at Imasu, he saw Imasu had dropped his head into his hands." Er, " Magnus said. "Are you quite all right?"" I was simply overcome, " Imasu said in a faint voice. Magnus preened slightly. "Ah. Well.""By how awful that was, " Imasu said. Magnus blinked. "Pardon?""I can't live a lie any longer! " Imasu burst out. "I have tried to be encouraging. Dignitaries of the town have been sent to me, asking me to plead with you to stop. My own sainted mother begged me, with tears in her eyes - ""It isn't as bad as all that - ""Yes, it is! " It was like a dam of musical critique had broken. Imasu turned on him with eyes that flashed instead of shining. "It is worse than you can possibly imagine! When you play, all of my mother's flowers lose the will to live and expire on the instant. The quinoa has no flavor now. The llamas are migrating because of your music, and llamas are not a migratory animal. The children now believe there is a sickly monster, half horse and half large mournful chicken, that lives in the lake and calls out to the world to grant it the sweet release of death. The townspeople believe that you and I are performing arcane magic rituals - ""Well, that one was rather a good guess, " Magnus remarked." - using the skull of an elephant, an improbably large mushroom, and one of your very peculiar hats! "" Or not, " said Magnus. "Furthermore, my hats are extraordinary."" I will not argue with that." Imasu scrubbed a hand through his thick black hair, which curled and clung to his fingers like inky vines. "Look, I know that I was wrong. I saw a handsome man, thought that it would not hurt to talk a little about music and strike up a common interest, but I don't deserve this. You are going to get stoned in the town square, and if I have to listen to you play again, I will drown myself in the lake."" Oh, " said Magnus, and he began to grin. "I wouldn't. I hear there is a dreadful monster living in that lake." Imasu seemed to still be brooding about Magnus's charango playing, a subject that Magnus had lost all interest in. "I believe the world will end with a noise like the noise you make! "" Interesting, " said Magnus, and he threw his charango out the window." Magnus! "" I believe that music and I have gone as far as we can go together, " Magnus said. "A true artiste knows when to surrender."" I can't believe you did that! " Magnus waved a hand airily. "I know, it is heartbreaking, but sometimes one must shut one's ears to the pleas of the muse."" I just meant that those are expensive and I heard a crunch. . Cassandra Clare
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He is a Shadowhunter, ” said Jocelyn. “His loyalty will be to Clave and Covenant.”“He’s my friend, ” said Magnus coldly. “His loyalty is to me. Cassandra Clare
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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. Cassandra Clare
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Isabelle snorted. 'All the boys are gay. In this truck, anyway. Well, not you, Simon.''You noticed' said Simon.'I think of myself as a freewheeling bisexual, ' added Magnus.'Please never say those words in front of my parents, ' said Alec. 'Especially my father.'' I thought your parents were okay with you, you know, coming out, ' Simon said, leaning around Isabelle to look at Alec, who was – as he often was – scowling, and pushing his floppy dark hair out of his eyes. Aside from the occasional exchange, Simon had never talked to Alec much. He wasn’t an easy person to get to know. But, Simon admitted to himself, his own recent estrangement from his mother made him more curious about Alec’s answer than he would have been otherwise.' My mother seems to have accepted it, ' Alec said. 'But my father – no, not really. Once he asked me what I thought had turned me gay.' Simon felt Isabelle tense next to him. 'Turned you gay?' She sounded incredulous. 'Alec, you didn’t tell me that.'' I hope you told him you were bitten by a gay spider, ' said Simon.Magnus snorted; Isabelle looked confused. 'I’ve read Magnus’s stash of comics, ' said Alec, 'so I actually know what you’re talking about' A small smile played around his mouth. 'So would that give me the proportional gayness of a spider?'' Only if it was a really gay spider, ' said Magnus, and he yelled as Alec punched him in the arm. 'Ow, okay, never mind. Cassandra Clare
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Iz, " Alec said tiredly. "It's not like it's one big bad thing. It's a lot of little invisible things. When Magnus and I were traveling, and I'd call from the road, Dad never asked how he was. When I get up to talk in Clave meetings, no one listens, and I don't know if that's because I'm young or if it's because of something else. I saw Mom talking to a friend about her grandchildren and the second I walked into the room they shut up. Irina Cartwright told me it was a pity no one would ever inherit my blue eyes now." He shrugged and looked toward Magnus, who took a hand off the wheel for a moment to place it on Alec's. "It's not like a stab wound you can protect me from. It's a million little paper cuts every day. Cassandra Clare
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Once he asked me what I thought had turned me gay."" I hope you told him you were bitten by a gay spider, " said Simon. Cassandra Clare
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Are you in fashion? You look like you're in fashion."" No, " [Magnus] said. "I am fashion. Cassandra Clare
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You could dress it up with a sequined headband, ” Magnus suggested, offering his boyfriend something blue and sparkly. “Just a thought.” “Resist the urge, Alec.” Simon was sitting on the edge of a low wall with Maia beside him, though she appeared to be deep in conversation with Aline. “You’ll look like Olivia Newton-John in Xanadu.” “There are worse things, ” Magnus observed. Cassandra Clare
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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. Cassandra Clare
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Magnus had animated one of his magnificent Chinese fans, and it flapped ineffectively at him, barely stirring the breeze. It was, if he was completely honest with himself (and he did not want to be), a bit too hot for this new striped blue-and-rose-colored coat, made of taffeta and satin, and the silk faille waistcoat embroidered with a scene of birds and cherubs. The wing collar, and the wig, and the silk breeches, the wonderful new gloves in the most delicate lemon yellow . it was all 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. Cassandra Clare
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Do you not tire of eternity? Do you not wish to end your suffering?"" By leaping into the Void? Not really. Cassandra Clare
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The monster's bride at his door. Magnus could not stop staring. [Jocelyn] was staring too. She seemed transfixed by his pajamas. Magnus was frankly offended. He had not invited any wives of crazed hate-cult leader to come around and pass judgement on his wardrobe. Cassandra Clare
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When the fey were worried, it was time to panic. Cassandra Clare
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Magnus looked away, so as not to see the wreckage. "I wish you luck, " he said. "Luck and love." Edmund made a small bow. "I bid you good day. I think we will not meet again." He walked away, into the inner reaches of the Institute. A few feet away, he wavered and paused, light from one of the narrow church windows turning his hair rich gold, and Magnus thought he would turn. But Edmund Herondale never looked back. . Cassandra Clare
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Magnus began to be truly alarmed. Will's voice would have shaken, betraying that his cruelty had been part of his playacting, but his son's laugh was that of someone genuinely delighted by the chaos erupting all around him Cassandra Clare
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Even more blood welled up and spilled down his arm, splattering onto the ground.“ Camille’s carpet, ” Magnus protested.“ It’s blood, ” said Will. “She ought to be thrilled. Cassandra Clare
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I thought you were dead." Magnus smiled crookedly. "What, from that scratch?" He glanced down at the reddening jacket in Alec's hand. "Okay, a deep scratch. Like, from a really, really big cat. Cassandra Clare
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You think that's the solution to everything, don't you, Bane? Drinking and dancing and making love... but I tell you this, something is coming, and we'd be fools to ignore it."" When have I ever claimed not to be a fool? Cassandra Clare
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Magnus did not take such suffering lightly, but even mortals did not die of broken hearts. No matter how cruel Grace had been, he told himself, James would heal. Even though he was a Herondale. Cassandra Clare
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I see that even as the world plunges into darkness and peril, you two stand around discussing your love lives. Teenagers. Cassandra Clare
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The Nephilim - the bogeyman for monsters, and all those who could be monsters. Cassandra Clare