Magnus-bane Quotes
Magnus raised his hands above his head and clapped once. The room flooded with light. "You see? You ...
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If you never tell anyone the truth about yourself, eventually you start to forget.
I'm the warlock who's here to cure you. Didn't they tell you I was coming?"
I've got a stele we can use. Who wants to do me?""A regrettable choice of words," muttered Magnus.

That seems like stealing, doesn't it?" Simon pulled a cup toward him. He drew the lid back. "Ooh. Mo...
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I was alive when the Dead Sea was just a lake that was feeling a little poorly.

That's your truck parked up by the factory isn't it?" Magnus pointed. "It's awfully butch for a book...
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But sleep didn't come. She could hear Jace's soft piano playing through the walls, but that wasn't w...
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We're not dating," Alec said again."Oh?" Magnus said. "So you're just that friendly with everybody, ...
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A pair of werewolves occupied another booth. They were eating raw shanks of lamb and arguing about w...
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There's no need to clarify my finger snap," said Magnus. "The implication was clear in the snap itse...
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Honestly I don't know why i have these parties""Because of your cat""That's true. Chairman Meow dese...
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Magnus, standing by the door, snapped his fingers impatiently. "Move it along, teenagers. The only p...
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Every teenager in the world feels like that, feels broken or out of place, different somehow, royalt...
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You dated a vampire? A girl vampire?" (Simon)"It was a hundred and thirty years ago," (Magnus)"I hav...
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So it's true what they say about warlocks, then?" true?". "You can't be rude to everyone who talks t...
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So what do we do?" Alec whispered.Magnus shrugged and smiled suddenly; with his messy black hair and...
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And second, keep in mind that you are a weapon. In theory, when you're done with training, you shoul...
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So it's true what they say about warlocks,

I just don't see why the past has to matter.

I'm seven hundred years old, Alexander. I know when something isn't going to work. You won't even ad...
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Malachi scowled. "I don't remember the Clave inviting you into the Glass City, Magnus Bane.""They di...
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I'm tired of watching you be in love with someone else someone who will never love you back, not the...
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... We are Nephilim; we fight our own battles." "That's not precisely true, is it?" said a velvety v...
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You could dress it up with a sequined headband,” Magnus suggested, offering his boyfriend something ...
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Alec?" Magnus was staring at him. He had dispatched the remaining Iblis demons, and the square was e...
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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...
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Raphael's hand tightened on the hilt of the knife. His knuckles were white. He spoke to Magnus. "I h...
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I see that even as the world plunges into darkness and peril, you two stand around discussing your l...
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He is a Shadowhunter,” said Jocelyn. “His loyalty will be to Clave and Covenant.”“He’s my friend,” s...
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What - what - what are you doing?" he demanded."I am almost six hundred years old," Magnus claimed, ...
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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...
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Magnus reached for Alec, but instead of rising to his feet, he pulled Alec against him, his hand sli...
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Of course he loves me. I’m his sister.”“Blood isn’t love,” said Magnus, and his voice was bitter.

He remembered Tessa weeping in his arms in Paris, and thinking that he had never known the loss she ...
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Its your decision, Simon Lewis," said Magnus. "Remain in the existence you have, go to college, stud...
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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 spi...
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I've got the Mark of Cain," said Simon. "That means nothing can kill me, right?""You can kill yourse...
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Isabelle snorted. 'All the boys are gay. In this truck, anyway. Well, not you, Simon.''You noticed' ...
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I thought you were dead." Magnus smiled crookedly. "What, from that scratch?" He glanced down at the...
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Wear that scarf," he said, pointing to a blue cashmere scarf hanging on a peg. "It matches your eyes...
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Not to mention,"Magnus noted, "that Jace killed him. That would put anyone off".

I don’t understand what makes them come out like that!”“Hunger,” said Jem. “Were you thinking about ...
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They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite

And therefor," said Magnus "We must go." Will blinked at him. "Go where?""Don't worry about that rig...
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Even more blood welled up and spilled down his arm, splattering onto the ground.“Camille’s carpet,” ...
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You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.

The first one is always the hardest.

Do you not tire of eternity? Do you not wish to end your suffering?""By leaping into the Void? Not r...
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Magnus hoped if he ever went mad like that himself, so mad that he poisoned the very air round him a...
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The Nephilim - the bogeyman for monsters, and all those who could be monsters.

He held her close enough to kiss, close enough to whisper the most important secrets in the world, a...
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El hambre agudiza el ingenio,” said Raphael.Hunger sharpens the wit.“Good proverb,” said Magnus. “Ho...
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They had met at a club fifteen years before, Etta and Magnus. He had convinced her to dance with him...
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When the fey were worried, it was time to panic.

What if everything you believe is wrong and you could still be loved and still be forgiven?

[Magnus] held on to the boy, newborn in grave dirt and blood, and he wished that he had found him de...
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Magnus threw the monkey a fig. The monkey took the fig."There," said Magnus. "Let us consider the ma...
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Even the girl he'd danced with had thought it was some marvelous trick. She had been enveloped in re...
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To them, as to Magnus, time was like rain, glittering as it fell, changing the world, but something ...
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Magnus had animated one of his magnificent Chinese fans, and it flapped ineffectively at him, barely...
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Magnus's ship would sail that night...His interest in the ship and his thoughts of an adventure to c...
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He lifted a glass. Ragnor and Catarina did not join him, but Magnus was happy to make the toast on h...
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Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. Nor was it wise to tempt angels, even of the fallen sort.

Vampires took offense SO easily—and Parisian vampires were the worst of all.' - The Runaway Queen (T...
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To them, as to Magnus, time was like rain, glittering as it fell, changing the world, but something ...
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When Magnus looked at Imasu, he saw Imasu had dropped his head into his hands."Er," Magnus said. "Ar...
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GOD HAS NOT MERCY AND NOR WILL I' - The Midnight Heir (The Bane Chronicles, 4) by Cassandra Clare an...
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Hello, companion," said Magnus.The monkey made a terrible sound, half snarl and half hiss."I begin t...
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Magnus looked away, so as not to see the wreckage. "I wish you luck," he said. "Luck and love." Edmu...
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Certainly there were places of greater natural beauty—but Paris but UNNATURAL beauty, which was argu...
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You know, there's a reason we can remember," [Catarina] said more softly."That's much easier when yo...
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Are you in fashion? You look like you're in fashion.""No," [Magnus] said. "I am fashion.

The monster's bride at his door. Magnus could not stop staring. [Jocelyn] was staring too. She seeme...
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I have been a friend to Shadowhunters. I know many of your families, going back for hundreds of year...
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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 ...
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Magnus began to be truly alarmed. Will's voice would have shaken, betraying that his cruelty had bee...
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There was still about them what had always reminded Magnus of an old legend he’d heard of the red th...
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Magic or nature, they were much the same thing to Magnus.

Magnus did not take such suffering lightly, but even mortals did not die of broken hearts. No matter...
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So, what are you?""What I am is someone who doesn't want you to jump out of the window. The rest are...
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And who are all these people? There weren't this many when I fell asleep."Alfie shrugged, indicating...
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The rich bought wonderful clothes you recognized. The richest had their pople go to Paris and buy th...
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You think that's the solution to everything, don't you, Bane? Drinking and dancing and making love.....
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Magnus didn't really want this kind of thing this early in the morning - this talk of aching memorie...
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It had been a whim, and there was nothing Magnus attached more importance to than a whim.

There was no way possible [the queen] could have done all of the things the pamphleteers claimed. Th...
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One did not turn down an invitation from Saint Cloud. At least, one didn't if one wanted to continue...
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There was also the fact that sometimes vampires committed crimes worse than murder. They commited cr...
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Our fathers were demons,' Catarina said. 'Our mothers were heroes.

Nobody else is wearing anything even remotely like it.'Magnus cast a disparaging look around at all ...
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He knew Alec enough by now to know the conflicting impulses that warred in him. He was conscientious...
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Magnus deeply disliked people who were early to business meetings. It was just as bad as being late,...
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