Somehow he managed to look cool despite the heat. It made Clary want to smack him.

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.

Because I don't live in either my past or my future.I'm interested only in the present".

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it withing his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

If you want to learn what someone fears losing, watch what they photograph.

AIDS was one of those diseases that a lot of people tried to claim ownership over, and especially as someone who was, fortunately never HIV positive, I wanted to avoid any appearance of doing that.

Globalization has altered the dynamics in the White House, as well as between the White House and the Treasury.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place.

Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.

I think that in school I was really shy. And even today when people meet me they are shock to see just how not-crazy I am.

I can be on the Tonight Show, but not with Johnny [Carson]. He uses my name in his monologue all the time.