Shadowhunters were brought up to handle anything, weren't they?

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.

In every life there are events that reshape one's sense of existence. Afterward, all is different and the past is dimmed.

I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had.

We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.

Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only the particular thing he is studying at the time.

Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization.

Because feeling love does make you feel superior. Until you find out you aren't loved back.

Greatness doesn’t come from what you do, but from who you are.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

Let us be what God likes, so long as we are His, and let us not be what we want to be, if it is against his intention.

Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.