Raphael snapped, "This isn't funny." "That's why no one's laughing." Jace stood, hauling Raphael upright, jamming the tip of his knife between Raphael's shoulder blades.

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.

There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there isn't a choice.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

Justice waits upon the great, Interest holds the scale, and Riches turns the balance.

The motives that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and might be given names on the same pattern: for instance, "bread-bread-fame" or "fame-fame-bread."

No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.

Heaven blew every trumpet and played every horn on the wonderful, marvelous night you were born.

Among other causes of misfortune which your not being armed brings upon you, it makes you despised.

I had the same manager as Frank Sinatra, so I got to meet him and he truly impressed me. He had this magical aura - the whole atmosphere in the room changed when he walked in.

It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.

I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood.