He was wearing a look that she found odd and compelling - that amusement that didn’t seem to pass beyond the surface of his features, as he found everything in the world both infinitely funny and infinitely tragic all at the same time.

“Mother,” Alec’s voice as he interrupted his mother was firm, implacable, and no…”

“Valentine!""You mean father. I despise this modern habit of calling one's paren…”

“Not Magnus himself, who was more of a cross between a panther and a demented el…”

“I want you to be happy, and him to be happy. And yet when you walk that aisle t…”