magnus

It's stupid, what keeps families apart

The posters bore the words WITH THE PASSING YEARS COMES...IMPOTENCE! Magnus found himself staring at the posters with a sort of absent horror. He looked at Alec and found that Alec could not tear his eyes away either. He wondered if Alec was aware that Magnus was three hundred years old and whether Alec was considering exactly how impotent one might become after that much time.

Because that which was new was almost always temporary. And that which was temporary broke your heart.

The way Magnus_ breath had sounded, rattling in his chest, before he__ said his father__ name.

I don't know why I ever helped you.""You like broken things.

What? Who are you marrying?__is jaw tightened.__rincess Cleiona Bellos.__ucia could not believe her ears. __his has been arranged.__agnus gave her a look.__h, not at all. Since helping to take her father's kingdom and destroy her life,I couldn__ help but fall madly in love with her. Yes,obviously it was arranged.

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__ stereo system at his last party and turned Clary__ idiot friend Stanley into a rat, which was just bad manners.

Happy birthday, Alexander," Magnus murmured."Thanks for remembering," Alec whispered back.

I love you, Cleo," he said, the words finally coming to him, with no effort at all because of how true they were. "I love you so much it hurts."Her eyes widened. "What did you just say?"Magnus almost laughed. "I think you heard me right.

I think,_ Jace said, __hat you don__ want to tell your secrets, so you decided to break up with Alec because...