“Sometimes the sins you haven’t committed are all you have left to hold onto.”

“You know what would help?” I asked, not meeting his eyes.”Hmm?””If you turned off this crap music and put on something that came out after the Berlin Wall went down.”Dimitri laughted. “Your worst class is history, yet somehow, you know everything about Eastern Europe.””Hey, gotta have material for my jokes, Comrade.” Still smiling, he turned the radio dail. To a country station.”Hey! This isn’t what I had in mind,” I exclaimed. I could tell he was on the verge of laughing again.”Pick. It’s one or the other.”I sighed. “Go back to the 1980s stuff.”He flipped the dail, and I crossed my arms over my chest as some vaguely European-sounding band sang about how video had killed the radio star. I wished someone would kill this radio.”

“Did you like question ten, Moony?” asked Sirius as they emerged into the entrance hall.”Loved it,” said Lupin briskly. “Give five signs that identify the werewolf. Excellent question.””D’you think you managed to get all the signs?” said James in tones of mock concern.”Think I did,” said Lupin seriously, as they joined the crowd thronging around the front doors eager to get out into the sunlit grounds. “One: He’s sitting on my chair. Two: He’s wearing my clothes. Three: His name’s Remus Lupin…”

“Y’all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.”

“Basia coquum,” Simon said. “Or whatever their motto is.””It’s ‘Descensus Averno facilis est.’ ‘The descent into hell is easy,” said Alec. “You just said “Kiss the cook.””Dammit,” said Simon. “I knew Jace was screwing with me.”

“Is this Clarissa Fray?” The voice on the other end of the phone sounded familiar, though not immediately identifiable.Clary twirled the phone cord nervously around her finger. “Yeees?””Hi, I’m one of the knife-carrying hooligans you met last night in Pandemonium? I”m afraid I made a bad impression and was hoping you’d give me a chance to make it up to-“”SIMON!” Clary held the phone away from her ear as he cracked up laughing. “That is so not funny!””Sure it is. You just don’t see the humor.””Jerk.” Clary sighed, leaning up against the wall.”

“Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.”

“I don’t do what I’m told, but I might do what you want if you ask me nicely.”

“What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course”

“We did it, we bashed them wee Potter’s the one, and Voldy’s gone moldy, so now let’s have fun!”

“Going round and around inside a dryer can be fatal, whereas pasta is rarely fatal. Unless Isabelle makes it.”

“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”

“have i gone mad?im afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usualy are.”

“Hercules,huh? Percy frowned. “That guy was like the Starbucks of Ancient Greece. Everywhere you turn–there he is.”

“She’d also called me brave…unless she was talking to the catfish.”