Goodness," Tessa said to the back of his head. "If you keep seeing Six-Fingered Nigel like this, he'll expect you to declare your intentions.

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.

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

The dance lives in all mankind as a necessary motor-rhythmic expression of excess energy and the joy of living.

I know so many songs. I'm like a walking karaoke torture machine.

I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

Cash is king. Get every drop of cash you can get and hold onto it.

The way we have done pictures has to be disappeared.

Sometimes, as practice for trying to convince myself that God exists, I try to convince my shadow that the sun exists.

My earth is somebody's ceiling

I've seen lifelong friends drift apart over golf just because one could play better, but the other counted better.