Magnus Bane Quotes

Magnus Bane (about Jace): I haven’t had a roommate this brazen since… Well, since Casanova and I spent the night in the Doge’s Palace.

Alec Lightwood: Casanova?

Alec Lightwood: I don’t care how many people you’ve been with.

Magnus Bane: I don’t care how many people you haven’t been with.

Magnus Bane: Alexander, look, I’ve lived for centuries. I’ve been with men, women, Seelies, warlocks, vampires… a djinn or two.

Alec Lightwood: How many?

Magnus Bane: How many?

Alec Lightwood: You can round down if you want.

Magnus Bane: Okay. If you wanna know, I’ll tell you. Seventeen.

Alec Lightwood: Seventeen. That… that’s… Seventeen… hundred? Seventeen thousand?

Alec Lightwood: Magnus, we’re in the middle of a war.

Magnus Bane: There will always be a war. A mission. A… a problem to solve. Look, I speak from experience. If you fail to grant time for the things you care about, you’ll forget why you’re even fighting at all.