“Will speechless for once, a glass of water frozen halfway to his lips”

“The witchlight made his skin paler, his eyes more intently blue. They were the color of the water in the North Atlantic, where the ice drifted on its blue-black surface like the snow clinging to the dark glass pane of a window.”

“You are Spider-Man!” she exclaimed.Simon glanced down from his perch halfway up the pillar. “That makes you Mary Jane. She has redhair,”

“Alec had his arms around Magnus and was kissing him, full on the mouth. Magnus, who appeared to be in a state of shock, stood frozen.”

“Alec muttered a retort into his coffee. It rhymed with something that sounded a lot more like "ducking glass mole.”

“Nearly unable to bear the thought of how much he needed her quiet strength, he closed his eyes and leaned his forehead against the cold glass.”

“Hell,” he said. “Just when it was getting interesting, too.” And he leaped into the water after his friend.”