Facilis descensus averno - The descent into hell is easy.

My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health.

The mundanes put their faith in their paper money, and when that turns to ash, the world will turn upside down.

Simon was still trying to work out how Shadowhunter government and also Shadowhunter family trees worked. They all seemed to be related to each other and it was very disturbing.

Magic or nature, they were much the same thing to Magnus.

She could ask for anything, she thought dizzily, anything--an end to pain or world hunger or disease, or for peace on earth. But then again, perhaps these things weren't in the power of angels to grant, or they would already have been granted. And perhaps people were supposed to find these things for themselves.