“I fear I must agree," Magnus murmured. He pressed a hand over his heart and his new peacock-blue waistcoast. "I strive to find some respect in my heart for you, but alas! It seems an impossible quest.”

—  Cassandra Clare

Source: Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale

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