We're called Shadowhunters. At least, that's what we call ourselves. The Downworlders have less complimentary names for us.

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.

Why don’t we break up? I guess I stay with her because she stays with me. And that’s not an easy thing to do.

Marriage is mutual faithful friendship.

The sun shines even on the wicked.

We generally look around for what is not there fretting over it and thus letting go of what is there.

Once in a rare while, somebody comes along who doesn't just raise the bar, they create an entirely new standard of measurement.

Maybe in any art you have to be wholly you in the context of whatever you're doing.

In daily terms, the work of listening is to be constantly worn free of our preconceptions and preferences so that nothing stands in the way of our direct experience of life.

I spent so long studying really hard to become a fine actor, but threw it all away because I got the adulation and the fame so easily

To the eye of enmity virtue appears the ugliest blemish.

I can make the stars dance