It's like banging my head against the wall, except if I were actually banging my head on a wall, I'd be able to make myself stop.

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.

All music is devotional, whether it's devotion to products, face washes, creams, plastic. Everybody is devoted to something.

It is not quite true to say that I am not an advocate of writing in African languages. What I think is, one has to think about what is practicable.

The best belongs to me and mine; and if we are not given it, we take it: the best food, the purest sky, the most robust thoughts, the fairest women!

The precarious ontological link between Logos and Eros is broken, and scientific rationality emerges as essentially neutral.

I've bashed my body for 30 years and I've just got to eat properly and not drink too much - very difficult!

I've always thought comparisons were useless and ugly. It is a short cut to thinking.

If you listen, you learn; if you talk, you don't.

The universe is a single life comprising one substance and one soul.

The worst, the most difficult thing I think is that the more you become intrigued by science and the information is out there, the more you are aware of the paucity of your own knowledge.

When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge.