„Simon watched a kelpie skip past, carrying a glass of blue fluid, and raised an eyebrow.“It’s not like Magnus’s party,” Isabelle reassured him. “Everything here ought to be safe to drink.”“Ought to be?” Aline look worried.“

— Cassandra Clare

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„Everything we thought and felt in that past period ought to be deposited in an archive, and a new type of human being created.“
— Ernesto Che Guevara
„The warlock's gaze, on the flames, was remote and distant, as if he were looking back into the past. Simon couldn't help but remember what Magnus had said to him once, about living forever:Someday you and I will be the only two left.“
— Cassandra Clare
„Let's drink to the hard working peopleLet's drink to the salt of the earth...Raise your glass to the hard working people...Who need leaders but get gamblers instead“
— Mick Jagger
„Lovers … when you raise yourselves and pressyour mouths together—drink upon drink:strange how each of you drinks your way past the other.“
— Rainer Maria Rilke
„You tried to drink the East River,"Magnus said, and Alec saw, as if for the first time, that Magnus's clothes were soaking wet too, sticking to his body like a dark second skin.“
— Cassandra Clare
„Magnus held up a warning finger. "Don't overstep yourself, biscuit," he said, and moved past them, disappearing into the crowd around the portal."Biscuit?" said Simon."Believe it or not, he's called me that before," Clary said.“
— Cassandra Clare
„It is unthinkable in the twentieth century to fail to distinguish between what constitutes an abominable atrocity that must be prosecuted and what constitutes that "past" which "ought not to be stirred up.“
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn