Tea. I find that both settles the stomach and concentrates the mind. Wonderful drink, tea.

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.

I didn't want to leave things the way we had, unresolved, ... and tried to tell myself he cared about me enough not to look elsewhere for what I wasn't giving him.

The way you attract something you term special determines how you safeguard it.

Loneliness means when you have no one to celebrate your success with and share your pains.

They should be taking bonuses from bankers, not library books from schoolchildren. What kind of society are we building?

The cry of the oppressed has entered not only into my ears, but into my soul, so that while I live, I cannot hold my peace.

The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.

In matters of the heart it is always better to want something you don't have than to have something you don't want.

The thing which seems so glorious when viewed from the heights of the country's cause looks so muddy when seen from the bottom. One begins by getting angry and then feels disgusted.

I take the museum space also as sacred in a sense.

Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.