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.

Or maybe it's just that beautiful things are so easily broken by the world.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Happiness must be grown in one's own garden.

You can develop good judgment as you do the muscles of the body — by judicious, daily exercise.

I don't know what makes fashion cruel, except I feel nothing but spiritual depletion around it. There's nothing enriching, spiritually.

My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.

The wise man does not lay up treasure. The more he expends on others, the more he gains for himself. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well.

If you act like an adult when you're a kid you can afford to act like a kid the rest of your life.