What’s your name, then? ”Tessa looked at him in disbelief. “What’s my name?” “Don’t you know it?

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 think the closest thing to a time machine that I've ever found is the Children's section of a library.

Be humble, be gracious, and make peace with inner fears before stepping out into the limelight and allowing yourself to be subjected to all of humanity.

I was always exploring relationships between art and science.

The amount of work and the amount of both physical and emotional investment it takes to get to the top.

When I was a kid I used to get fun out of my horrors.

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought.

Fish are not the best authority on water.

Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.

The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.

My intention was never to write a "trans novel" - which is perhaps an effective strategy for writing a trans novel.