For that was love, wasnt it--to burn bright in someone else's eyes?

Parabatai" said Jace. "It means a pair of warriors who fight together - who are closer than brothers. Alec is more than justmy best friend.

Whither thou goest, I will go; Where thou diest, will I die And there will I be buried: The Angel do so to me, and more also, If aught but death part thee and me.

I love you. And I don't want to lose you.

Wherever we are, we are as one

Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.

We're not dating," Alec said again. "Oh?" Magnus said. "So you're just that friendly with everybody, is that it?

Don't bother her, don't try to talk to her, don't even look at her, or I'll fold you in half so many times you'll look like a tiny little origami werewolf.

The more you try to crush your true nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop.

You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.

Tell me you love me. Tell me you love me and will fight with me.

True wealth comes less from having riches than from knowing how to live richly.

Knowledge dilutes imagination.

When we are aware, we step into the moment which is outside of time.

Not learning by doing, but learning by risking.

I consider myself a student, both in my work and my life, and I'm constantly learning and I'm constantly grateful for that.

It's (the lack of communication between the people in his paintings, ed.) probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It could be the whole human condition.

Unformed people delight in the gaudy and in novelty. Cooked people delight in the ordinary.

I imagine the touch of someone who loves you so much, he cannot bear to watch you sleep; and so you wake up with his hand on your heart.

If it's truly a passion and it's truly something you believe in, then you need to do it.