Raphael snapped, "This isn't funny." "That's why no one's laughing." -Raphael & Jace, pg.272-

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.

Her tiny and organized handwriting reminded me of the tidiness of her desk, as if she'd wanted to find in words the peace and safety that life hadn't wanted to grant her.

There are books like Darkness at Noon, which from the prose standpoint I don't think is a perfect book. It has flaws. But for its time, it was very politically courageous.

You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't.

The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it

No one knows my ability the way I do. I am pushing against it all the time.

And I think for some - not all - but for some Democrats, the issue of immigration is better politically if they just leave it the way it is now because they can use it against Republicans.

Your life is important. Fight for it. Honour your highest potentials.

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.

Without prayer, our faith is weakened, our love grows cold, our hope becomes uncertain.

I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.