One must look at the next step on the path ahead, rather than the mountain in the distance, or one would never reach one's goal.

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.

If magic violates the fundamental laws of nature, they clearly weren't all that fundamental.

I've concluded that I learned far more from my failures than from my successes.

A heart that loves is always young.

That conversion which is all joy and lacks sorrow for sin, is very questionable.

Art may make a suite of clothes, but nature must produce a man.

You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.

She's a tear that hangs inside my soul forever.

A film set is a workplace for me; it's my office, and nobody really wants to be in a stressful work environment.

doing and being are very closely tied together, and unless you are doing what you secretly want to do, you aren't able to be the sort of person you want to be.