My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health.'-Jace'Just break the door down, will you?'-Clary

You know," Clary said, "most psychologists agree that hostility is really just sublimated sexual attraction.

That sounds almost practiced, James Carstairs. How many girls have you made swoon with that observation?""There is only one girl I care to make swoon," he said. "The question is, does she?" She smiled at him. "She does.

Do stop flirting with my husband," said Tessa."I shall not," Magnus declared, "but I will pause briefly so that I may catch up on your news.

Magnus, you were trying to flirt with your own plate." "I'm a very open-minded sort of fellow!" "Ragnor is not," Catarina said. "When he found out that you were feeding us guinea pigs, he hit you over the head with your plate. It broke." "So ended our love," Magnus said. "Ah, well. It would have never worked between me and the plate anyway.

Like letting spiders live because they eat mosquitoes, Clary thought. "So they're good enough to let live, good enough to make your food for you, good enough to flirt with-but not really good enough? I mean, not as good as people.